A Year of Change

Hoping we beat the 49’rs today! Game is at 2:25 this afternoon. Ty works from 7 until 1:30 so he’ll get to watch it. He’s trying to kick Lori’s cold or one he picked up somewhere, probably at work.

This morning at 10, Lori is getting her hair done with April in Glenwood. I think a few of the guys are coming over for the Bronco game. Lori made her famous meatloaf yesterday.

Meanwhile I’m 18 days into eating zero sugar, processed foods or gluten. I feel great and am down like nine pounds. This isn’t just something I thought I’d do, but rather a plan from my Superpower.com app after my bloodwork with over 120 markers came back. It says I’m very healthy with a score of 90/100 but tells you what you need to tweak to be at the optimum. I get another 50 or 60 markers that are more detailed probably this week. My biggest issue is my cholesterol, which is hereditary. Good news is all my inflammation markers are super low which is the real number to check. Anyhow, it’s working for me, and surprisingly I don’t miss sugar one single bit. Really wasn’t that hard to quit either. I’m lucky in that way, as I can pretty much stop or change anything instantly if I really want to. I just need a reason or goal to tell myself to do it. My metabolic age is 52 too, which is 18 years younger than my actual age!

It’s beautiful up here with temps in the low to mid 70’s during the day and the low 40’s, maybe high 30’s at night. It’s warmer than it should be for the first of October, but that’s the Super El Nino. We should get more snow than last year but the middle of winter should be mild, which we’ll gladly take.

Time to go, have a great Sunday and Go Broncos and God Bless.

Yesterday seemed like a Friday but today it’s finally here, thank God. The weekends are something we look forward to more and more these days. They mean usually our phones stop ringing for the most part.

Lori is so bummed that she hasn’t seen any bears! They’re everywhere this year, especially in Aspen where they walk around downtown freely. She’s even up for a drive over there to see if she can see one! Lori is about the only person I know that has lived up here for over ten years that has never seen a bear! Maybe we’ll run over today, we’ll see. I’m sure if we do, every bear will leave Aspen for the couple hours we’re in town, ha.

Ty works at 7 and Lori just woke him up. It’s 6:25 now so he overslept. He’ll be fine though as the restaurant doesn’t open until 8. Looks like a dry week ahead with temps around 80 in Denver meaning the mid 70’s up here. It was beautiful yesterday, a picturesque perfect Fall Day.

The new Tom Cruise movie Digger comes out today! Maybe we’ll go see it. I really want to clean out my closet today. We’ll see if I get to it.

Have a great first Friday of October! God Bless.

Here we are, October 1st. Feels like September 1st outside as temps are still in the 80’s. That’s the Super El Nino messing with us. It’s causing major drought in some areas of the World, like the Amazon and Panama, and major flooding in other areas. Ocean temps are up a whopping 3 degrees which doesn’t sound like much, but it huge. It’s going to be a strange year. It’s predicted that there will be major food shortages Worldwide and the University of Chicago says over 451,000 heat related deaths will come with it. Most of the deaths will be in Africa and other countries. Here we’ll see warmer than normal temps, already are, drought in some places and too much moisture in others. Hold on tight and get ready as it’s already started.

Ty works this morning at 8. Lori and I are going to the gym. Jag went home from work yesterday as he wasn’t feeling well. He worked from home all day. We made a pork roast which was delicious. Lori is taking my dentist appointment at noon today to have her teeth cleaned.

I was in Aspen yesterday morning. It sure is beautiful over there. You can see why it’s so attractive to the wealthy and uber rich. Everything is great about it except the uber rich in their yoga pants, G Wagons and Range Rovers. They look so out of place. The locals are all great people, and we know lots of them that have been there their whole lives. Most live down valley as no one can afford to live in Aspen. Second homes start in the tens of millions. There’s nothing in town for $3 million or so, try $30 million! Still, it’s a beautiful valley and whoever founded the town way back when (it was a mining town originally) picked a great spot. We would never live there but could on a ranch outside of town. If only it wasn’t governed by the idiots in Denver. Too bad it’s not in Montana!

7:30 now, time to get going. Have a great first day of October! God Bless.

Not much yesterday but we’re supposed to get some today. I turned the sprinklers off a couple weeks ago so that saves money on our water bill. I was in Denver by 9am and my truck was done by noon. This put me home a little before 2. I thought about going to the gym but was sidetracked shipping some stuff off with Fed Ex.

Ty went down to Denver around noon for his concert and was home around 11:30 pm. He’s off today but back at it tomorrow. He needs to get on his room as it’s a mess. Jag received a big box from us yesterday with 3 or 4 coats and 3 or 4 pair of my old jeans (the boys love them), a pair of Bose headphones and a few other small things. He had to Uber home rather than take the train.

I’m off to Aspen this morning to run to a couple stores I need to go to. I did stop at my watch dealer yesterday as he called last week and a Rolex came in that’s hard to get. After trying it on though, I passed. It was $16,000 by the time you added in the $1400 in tax and it just didn’t do it for me. There’s a lot I can do with $16,000 other than getting a watch that I wasn’t crazy about. I’m still on the list for another one that’s about the same price, that’s a bit harder to find. My AD (authorized dealer) always puts me at the top of the list though. He’s a good guy. I sent him and his wife to Metallica in Denver in 2025 (they’re huge fans), and put him in the snake pit. Some guys wait years for an opportunity to buy a new Rolex from a dealer, but Carlos has me dialed in. Then again, some guys never get to go in the snake pit either, ha. Glad I passed. I no longer buy stuff, unless I really, really want it. I’m sort of in a purging mode rather than an adding mode these days.

Lots of misleading political ads on tv. I can’t believe how they lie and create these ads trying to show themselves as one of us, or regular people. What a joke, yet people fall for it. The school ad is the worst. It’s named “For the Kids” or something like that, when in reality it takes away our Tabor (tax) refund, that we voted on and passed, because they spent the money from the last “For the Kids” bill, on illegals rather than the kids! It’s so messed up.

That’s our State these days, time to get going. Have a great Wednesday. Take care and God Bless.

Headed down to the dealer today as I’m getting black badges on the truck today which will replace the chrome ones. Should take a few hours but they’ll give me a loaner so I can go run some errands. Ty has a concert in Denver tonight. Not sure if he’s driving back up tonight or not.

He and I worked out at our gym yesterday afternoon. We then went to Ptarmigan, which is a sporting goods store next to the gym, for some stuff. Earlier in the day I went to Lowes, REI and Whole Foods over in Silverthorne. In Denver I need to run to Cherry Creek.

Lori’s working in Vail today. If I’m lucky, I’ll be back by 2pm. Rain tomorrow, and it should be a good one. I need to run to Aspen but will see how the weather is in the morning.

Time to get moving, have a great day, GB.

What a game. We looked like crap in the first half, what’s new. Then we scored 30 in the second half to the Rams 10 points, and won the game. It rained on and off and emotions were up and down, especially for Ty and 75,000 others in the stadium. In the end though, we won, and that’s all that counts.

During the day, Lori and I boxed up a big box of coats and shoes and jeans and a few other things for Jagger. I’m sending a bunch of stuff Fed Ex today and his box is one of them. Lori did too much yesterday and is still kicking her cold. She works today but thankfully Ty is off. He must have made it home around 1 in the morning, maybe a little later.

I have to run to Frisco this morning and then box some more stuff for Fed Ex. 6:37am now so time to get moving, God Bless.

Here’s the crew at the game! Ty’s wearing his Surtain jersey from Alabama. Think Uncle Tom bought that for him for Christmas one year. Jack, on the right with the long hair, has been Ty’s friend since kindergarten. Nick and Demetri are his other two buddies. Nick lives up here in Vail and went to school with Ty. Good times!

All the experts have us losing to the L.A. Rams tonight, so I think we’re going to win! I’m much more nervous when everyone picks us to win. You never know. Ty will probably leave around noon for the game.

Yesterday we went to see the new Brad Pitt movie. Critics hate it but it was good except they could have done better with some of the AI generated animals which looked pretty fake, Still, as Robi said, it was basically one guy (Brad) and a dog and that was the whole movie. The scenery also was really beautiful which is what Alaska is, beautiful and relatively unspoiled. I’m trying to get it together to take Lori and the boys on a fishing trip to a lodge in Alaska next summer. Anyone want to go? Robi? Tom? It’ll be an epic trip.

Molly, Ty’s boss, offered him $80k a year salary, 2 weeks paid vacation, a ski pass and health insurance to stay with her. I told him that’s a huge compliment and really says something about him. He should accept and say, “I just need 90 days off at the first of the year”! Ty is indispensable at the restaurant, and we all know how hard it is to find people that are responsible and want to work, much less universally loved, reliable and competent, like Ty. He said she’s kind of freaking out having him gone for 3 months.

Jag bought some new pants yesterday and also picked up the two pair we bought him. He had a gift card for $325 bucks from us buying the pants, so he bought a sweater and a few other things. We’re sending him a box tomorrow with three of his coats for Fall. Weather will be changing soon. Fall is in the air!

That’s it, time to get moving, have a great day, God Bless and Go Broncos!

Lori’s getting better, and the good news is, I think I dodged a bullet by not getting sick! She wants to go to the gym this morning but I told her no way is she riding in the truck. She said she’ll ride in the back seat. Like that’ll stop her germs from getting to me in the front seat, no way.

Ty worked until around 10 last night and made $340 bucks in tips at the party. He’s already gone as he opens the restaurant at 7am. Robi and Bobby went to see Heart of the Beast yesterday, and said it was great. We’ll probably go to the 1pm show today, but I’ll make Lori drive her own car down, ha ha, just kidding. The theater is only a couple miles down the road. I’ll just drive with the windows open. Hopefully she’s not contagious anymore as it’s her third day on anti-biotics.

I went to cigars with a couple of the guys yesterday. Good to see them. CU plays Baylor at 10am this morning. Maybe we can pull off an upset, you never know.

Time to go, have a great Saturday and God Bless.

Lori has a cough and cold. Not sure where she picked it up, but she started a Z-Pak last night. I’m off to Glenwood this morning at 7 to have my last blood draw for my exec health program. Should be back by 8:45.

Ty’s working 15 hours today, as he has a party tonight he’s working. I have a call at 10 and then will go to the gym, if Lori’s feeling ok. Hoping I don’t get her crud.

The new Brad Pitt movie comes out today. If Lori’s feeling ok, we’ll go see it tonight or this afternoon. He was up here a week ago for a surprise viewing at our little theater.

How fun of all the places for him to come, to come here. The movie looks really good.

That’s it, time to get moving, have a great day and God Bless.

Nice this morning. Fall is on the way. Haven’t see any snow up high yet, which is not a good sign. Years ago, when hunting over Labor Day, we’d usually run into a dusting up high.

Ty’s out the door to work and Lori is making her second cup of coffee. I ran down to Denver yesterday to the car dealer. They filled up my truck with diesel which was nice. I hit Edwards, meats for $400 bucks worth of the good stuff. I then stopped at High Country Western Wear for a few pair of new jeans, hit the cigar shop and made a quick stop at Jeff and Tina’s to see their new puppy!

I left by 11am or so and was doing well until I hit Evergreen where there was a truck hauling a giant shovel for a front loader that took up both lanes! The State Patrol was escorting the truck, which was so wide, no one could pass it. Thankfully they pulled over at the chain up station at Georgetown and I was able to get by.

When I made it home, I cleaned up the house, did some laundry and put dinner in the oven. Today we’re having dino ribs which are 8″ long beef ribs! I’ll put them in around 10:30 this morning and cook them low and slow. Good football and Fall food!

Time to get moving, have a great day, football tonight! God Bless.