A Year of Change

It was worth getting up for but could have easily gone the other way. Team Canada was so dejected after the loss but not many noticed as Team USA was in full celebration mode. A bunch of no names, unless you’re a big-time hockey fan, beat the favored Canadians. I didn’t really know any of our guys but knew a bunch of the guys from Canada. A lot of Colorado Avalanche players were on Team Canada. In the end, we won, that’s all that counts.

Lori made meatloaf for lunch that was great. Marty came over and we watched the Nuggets game. I’m off to Denver this morning to pick up some clothes that I had altered. Marty’s sister, who runs the second largest credit union in Texas, called and offered Jagger a job at $110K a year, but found out she was two weeks late!

Ty made it home around 10 and went straight to bed as he only had two hours sleep last night. Lori’s at work today, and so is Ty. I hope to be back home around noon, if I’m lucky. Time to get moving, have a great day and God Bless.

The gold medal game just started here at 6:10am. The US is playing the heavily favored Canadians and with 7 minutes gone in Period 1, the US just took the lead! This is a big deal as we haven’t won the gold medal since the infamous 1980 game, 46 years ago today, when Team USA upset the Russians. That was known as the Miracle on Ice. If the US wins today, this would undoubtedly be known as Miracle on Ice II! You never know!

Yesterday we had the bathroom baseboards caulked and painted and in two weeks, we should be finished with it. Next Saturday we’re in Chicago so that’s why it’ll take two more weeks. Salvatore can only work on Saturdays, as he has another job during the week. It’s looking real good!

Marty came over after dropping Melanie at the Eagle Airport, and we sat in the sun smoking our pipes hanging out. It was still cool outside but really nice and sunny. Lori went and had her nails done. I went up to Davy’s three times to let the dogs out.

The sun came out in the morning and melted most all the snow on the roads. Looks like it’ll be 70 in Denver this week! It was cold and snowing in Chicago yesterday, so it looks like we picked the right weekend not to go, ha.

Davy said Abbey has three big duffle bags of Team USA gear from helmets to coats, scarfs, gloves, everything, as they loaded her up with gear. Excited to see all the stuff. They’ll all be home today as yesterday Abbey and the kids headed out in the morning from Denver for Steamboat for a hockey tournament yesterday and today. Back to the game, 4 minutes left in Period 1 and so far, Team USA is hanging in there playing good defense and pressuring Team Canada. Again, it’ll be a huge upset if we win!

Have a great day, God Bless. USA, USA, USA!

It’s been a month of change, for Jagger for sure, same with Ty, for me and work, and even lovely Lori. It’s amazing how in just one month so many things one’s life can be turned upside down. Crazy thing is this is only the beginning.

At work, I’m having mandatory AI classes that start next week. Any company executive that is not integrating AI, will soon be left behind. Talk about change, AI is the biggest thing, probably bigger, to come along since Al Gore invented the internet! That’s a joke in case you don’t recall good old Al claiming he invented the internet!

It’s 5:25am now and we’re off to the gym soon as Salvatore, our handyman, shows up at 8:30 to finish some caulking and painting around the house. I think Ty is headed down the hill to Denver as he has the next two days off. He’s been working super hard, at work, and more importantly, on himself. He told me he won’t be drinking with the guys as he doesn’t want to lose any of the gains he’s been making in the gym. Good for him.

That’s it, time to get moving. Have a great day, be well, stay safe and God Bless.

We’re getting some snow, not a lot so far, but some much needed snow. It’s a light snow, but it all helps.

Ty’s back working today. He played golf yesterday at a place with a simulator here in Eagle. I made it to Denver by 8:30 and was out around of town by 11:30. Then after I made it home, I headed west to Glenwood for my hearing aid checkup appointment. On the way home I stopped at Costco so by 6pm I was home.

I have a call with France at 8 this morning and Lori has PT at the same time.

Davy and Abbey sent a bunch of pictures and videos from the Olympics. One video of the women’s hockey team winning the gold and a bunch of pictures with Mikela in the tent with her new Gold Medal! Yea for our local hometown girl. She’s one of the good ones. I think they’re flying home today, maybe tomorrow.

A week from today we’re off to Chicago to see the kids. We’re staying at the Waldorf Astoria which is a fantastic, iconic hotel. Our room has a balcony and a fireplace. When Lori asked me if I made reservations and I told her we’re flying non-stop, first class from Eagle and staying at the Waldorf, she looked at me and said, and I quote, “I love that about you”! Funny.

Time to get moving, have a great Friday, take care and God Bless.

Ty has a rest day today, both from work and the gym. He’ll be back to both tomorrow.

A little bit more snow up here, but at the house, just another dusting. I have an 8:30am derm appointment and then a call at 9:30, a haircut at 10 and I need to drop off a shirt and shoes after that. The cleaners come today and Lori is working from home. At 4:30, I have an appointment in Glenwood, so it’ll be a busy day.

5am now and not much else going on. Mikela won a gold medal the other day. Davy and Abbey are there to celebrate with her and will be home this weekend.

That’s about it, time to get moving as I need to be out the door by 6. Have a great day, it’s almost March! God Bless.

40 days until Easter. We’re not catholic, but it’s a good day to start some sort of commitment by giving something up for lent. You can also do something like tell yourself, I’m going to do something nice for someone each day. It can be as simple as complimenting someone, let’s say your spouse, each day! You get it.

Ty’s off to work. This is his eighth day in a row! He’s also been to the gym every day and is on a strict diet. We’re so proud of him as it’s also 8 days without a drop of alcohol! That’s hard in itself. Lori works in Vail today. No real snow up here, a little in Vail and on the Pass, but nothing like forecasted. It could still come today, we’ll see.

Lots going on at work. I’m hiring two new people, and April 1st will be letting two long time employees go. One’s been with me over 20 years and the other 13 years. It won’t be easy but is necessary as the industry has changed and they no longer fit the needs of the Company. It’ll be a tough day, but being a leader sometimes requires tough decisions.

Almost 7am now so time to get going. Have a great day and God Bless.

No real snow yet, but big-time wind. The weatherman might be right this time around. After all, the odds are in their favor after being wrong so many times in a row. Supposedly we’ll have wind and snow from now until Thursday morning. It is mid-February.

Lori works in Vail today and Ty works at 9 in Edwards. I have calls starting in an hour at 8 and happening every hour until 1pm. Yesterday I was in Denver by 7:30 and headed home a little after noon. I picked up a new sport coat that was 50% off along with a few shirts and a couple pair of pants. Clothes, at least the ones I wear, are so expensive these days, so it’s good to buy them when they’re on sale.

Jeff and Tina invited us to their house in Costa Rica but they’re going over Easter which doesn’t work for us. I think we’ll be either in Chicago or Scottsdale, we’ll see. We also need to get to finalizing our travel plans for summer.

Time to get moving. 11 days left in the month and then it’s March! Take care and God Bless.

Taking off at 6am for Denver to get the oil changed on my new truck. While there, I’ll run a couple errands that I need to get done in the big city.

Big news of the day is Ty’s on a new program. When he came back from California, he started his new regimen of working out daily and eating a healthy 2500 calories a day. We swear he’s already looking more muscular. He stopped all alcohol and is all in. He’s following some program online and to my amazement, he’s 100% all in. I guess I shouldn’t actually be amazed as that’s exactly how I am. All or nothing, can’t do stuff half assed. Super proud of him. He’s working again today.

Lori is at work today. Looks like a little snow the next few days. If you believe the news, the blizzard of the century is headed our way. But that’s what they said last week, and nada, zippo, nothing. You never know.

That’s it for today. Have a great day and God Bless.

February 15th, that means we only have about six more weeks of winter. This is great news! Some are upset about the lack of snow, but we’ve had worse years. We’ll be fine. California and Arizona, maybe not so much. They get most of their water from our snowpack so it could be a tough year for them. Of course this could change with one snowy week in March.

Jag and Ava had a fun day exploring around their neighborhood in Chicago. They went to so many different places we can’t even remember them all. Meanwhile, Ty worked from 7pm until who knows when. He was home at 3am when I woke up with Harley.

Lori dodged a bullet yesterday as they had 4 Great Pyrenees puppies in Aspen at the shelter that needed homes. They were all adopted yesterday, otherwise Harley might have had a new friend this morning!

AI is some crazy shit. There’s a clip going around the internet that shows Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting on a rooftop. It looks just like a major Hollywood movie and Hollywood is freaking out with some saying “it’s over for us”. It was produced by a program with only two prompts! Everyone I know, including us at work, are using AI in some fashion or another. Mark this moment as only a year from now, it will be dramatically advanced from where we are today. This is scary. I’ve always said that man has advanced technologically far faster than we have intellectually. If you doubt this, just look at where things like robots and drones are verses the people. The people, or as I like to call them, the sheeple, are wasting their time and lives protesting things like the arrest of criminals and trans conversions for little kids, things any sane person takes for granted. This is a recipe for disaster. Computers and programs are already thinking for themselves and impacting all of our lives, and yet, most people don’t see it. It’s going to be a totally different World in just a few years. We all need to prepare ourselves for this change, as most are too distracted with meaningless issues and too stupid to even see it happening right in front of their eyes. Enough on this for today, but big change is coming.

Think we’ll go to the gym. It was really nice yesterday with temperatures probably in the 60’s. Looks like more of the same today. Have a great Sunday, be well, stay safe and God Bless.

Time for flowers and chocolate! There’s a dusting of snow outside this morning, and a little bit of light cloud cover. Looks like sunshine on the way this afternoon.

Ty works at 7 tonight! Must be some private party or something. Our handyman is back today to do some more caulking and re-grout some tile. We need to walk Juno and Prince today as Davy landed in Austria last night and is meeting Abbey at the Olympics I think tomorrow. They’ll be home this weekend.

I have a sore neck from something I did at the gym. Think I’ll take a break today. The kids are doing well in Chicago.

At work, Jagger wrote some kind of program to get around paying Bloomberg $100k per terminal at work for some daily, real time financial information that everyone needs to use! He basically saw some kind of problem with the status quo, and said to himself, “what if we do it this way”, and then wrote this program on his own, to circumvent the current process. Of course, it works and gives his Company and traders a leg up on other banks as they can now access the information in seconds instead of minutes. His program is now intellectual property of the Company but wow, how amazing. Here you have all these mega financial companies around the globe, doing things one way, and in two weeks, this kid comes in and takes a current process and makes it better, impressive, to say the least. We joked the password he should install for everyone to sign in should be something like “Jagger rocks”, or “Give Jagger a raise”, ha.

Lori wants to go to the gym, so I guess I’ll go and just do the treadmill. Have a great day, we’re just staying home tonight as food on holidays at restaurants is usually bad as they overbook and are always stretched too thin.

Take care, be well and God Bless.