another busy couple of days…

last night the management team went to the avalanche game in the corporate suite for team building. the avs got shut out 4-0, but just being at any hockey game is a good night for me.

tonight i worked late, followed by a good workout, and now watching the taped ufc fights. some friends and i got tickets for the ufc fight night that will be in broomfield in april, so that will be pretty exciting. i know i should be saving, but i’m generally pretty good about not buying things for myself, so i gave myself permission to buy it (and asked for permission from k, too, of course).

it was actually a pretty busy day, both at work and with personal stuff. mom’s dog had puppies the other day, so i have to do some updates to her website. i think we’re set to go to florida at the end of march. conveniently enough, there are a few tampa bay lightning games that week, so we’ll take mom to one. i think we’ll use my marriott points to get a hotel one night in orlando, too, and maybe go to epcot or something. i guess between that and the frequent flyer miles, something good will come out of all my travel. i’m headed east again next week, speaking of travel.

i don’t really have a point tonight. i want to get back in to the habit of writing, so here i am. i wrote a little this morning, too. i had a weird dream last night, and i woke up and wrote bits and pieces of it that i could remember, making minor edits as i went along. i don’t know if i’ll ever do anything with it, but like getting back in to working out, i want it to become a routine part of my day. although i’m pretty sure i couldn’t handle doing the new workout routine twice in one day. at least, not yet.

i’ve been wanting to write something for awhile, but things have been busy (as usual) and i’ve been unmotivated (as usual). but over the course of the past few days, i’ve actually been semi-productive, so i figured i would top it off with a post.

my favorite accomplishment was putting up the honeymoon page on daveandkerri.com. i found web pages for the places we are staying and included links and pictures along with the itinerary. it seems so crazy, really. fiji, sydney, and the great barrier reef. i think we are going to see and do a lot of things but, at the same time, the itinerary seems to also include a nice balance of relaxation. as an added bonus, october is supposed to be a great time for heading to those parts of the world, too.

i also put pictures of the western show up on flickr. we only saw the wild west show, but it was fun and educational and was one of the things i wanted to ponder deeply and write about, but that won’t be tonight. in a nutshell, it was related to the history of the cowboy, and how much it has become a part of our culture, even though the cowboy as we think of him only lasted for about 20 years. it seems like such a short time. granted, there are cowboys today, sort of (none of which actually sing country music). it’s like hip hop, i think. it’s a lifestyle, not a profession. the real cowboys are the ones that led steer drives for hundreds of miles…the old west cowboys, not the ones that drive chevy’s and have the little decal of calvin relieving himself on a ford emblem. my point, if i ever decide to write about it in the future, was how it became part of our culture, and how long it would be a part of it. how far back in history will the lasso reach? fifty years from now, will there be a wild west show? will the seats be packed like they were when i was there? maybe we’ll have a new-age cowboy show that doesn’t involve any cattle, but folks driving around in their ford and chevy trucks, perfectly synchronized at 50 miles an hour (and 3 miles per gallon).

back to the pictures, i haven’t decided if i want to put any of them on kettlepot. i’m still unmotivated, and severely critical right now. but at least i took some pictures. that should count for something.

i’m also trying to finish brave new world. technically, i finished the main story. i’m reading huxley’s follow up to it, which is very, very interesting. even if people don’t read the book, i think they should read “brave new world revisited”. right now, i think i want to do a small book report on it. there were a lot of similarities to “stranger in a strange land”, which i’ve read maybe 5 times. the interesting thing about brave new world, though, is that the “revisited” provides a lot of insight in to why things are the way they are in the future, including examples of huxley’s present day that led him to design it the way he did…creepy experiments that proved things about human nature that, in the story, the future “world controllers” use the make a freak utopian society.

to tie my last to thoughts together, in the brave new world, there are “savage” reservations; basically, native american reservations. (pieces of that were very “stranger in a strange land”). but i wanted to mention that there were some native americans doing a few different dances at the western show, and some of those pictures are included on flickr. the dances were amazing, especially the hoop dancing, which constitutes a large number of the pictures on flickr. the coolest part was that the father was the main hoop dancer, which from the announcer is a big deal and not something just anyone can do. but the dancer’s son was following his father and learning the hoop dance, and the two of them danced together and was really touching, and real. the crowd gave a nice response, as well, which made me, even if only for a brief moment, believe there is hope for us all yet.

and then i caught the news on the radio…

after the daveandkerri.com site was completed, i spent some time updating the keywords on the website and then resubmitted the site to google. previously, searching google for “dave and kerri” didn’t show our site on the first page. i mean, seriously, daveandkerri.com was behind damon and (some other) kerri’s page. what’s up with that?

so, perseverance paid off today when i went to google and did my search and was pleased to see that daveandkerri.com was at the top of the search results!

top of the world, ma!

tomorrow marks the end of my glorious vacation. today was a good warm-up, though. kerri and i had a nice lunch and went to the denver art museum to see the louvre exhibit before it leaves this weekend. it was my first time since the remodel of the DAM, and it was disappointing. the layout of the exhibit was horrible. it did not flow at all, and the narrow to wide aisles left people bunched up on the narrow ends while the exhibits themselves on the wide end seemed forced. i appreciate what they were trying to do, and the main lobby of the museum is pretty neat, but at least the main exhibit space seems not well thought out.

tonight i also went back to my guitar lessons. my instructor was out of the country the past few weeks, so it was nice to get back to it. my practice the past few weeks was not as focused as it should have been, but i like that i am playing for fun and just to play, too. i think that shows my interest and enjoyment from playing…but i get a little frustrated because i don’t feel like i’m advancing in some of the other areas as much as i would have liked. i’ll get there, i know.

this is going to be a big year, and it’s already the end of the 1st day of it. i’ll be getting married, working on advancing my career, starting up some photography courses, continuing my guitar lessons, writing, health and fitness, and so many other things. the year has barely started and i’m already trying to figure out how to do it all. i’ll add “figure it all out” to my to do list. maybe somewhere near the top.