So tonight, I’m planning on going to TAG (“creatively” named after head chef, Troy Atherton Guard) to celebrate my birthday from about a month and a half ago with my parents, girlfriend, and a family friend.
Notice that in addition to all the high quality booze that they carry, there are cups full of fresh ingredients like mint, basil, cucumbers, oranges, limes, kiwis, ginger root, and a ton of other fresh ingredients (is that a bottle of honey that I see back there?!) behind the drink in this pic! And as usual with any badass cocktail bar, they know what’s up with Hendrick’s gin. #efffyes!
And from the looks of things the food is nothing to scoff at either!
MONEY TO BLOW! hahah yeah right… anyways I left things off after my Glenwood post, and since then I’ve been varying degrees of sick and so have been out of the blog loop for a bit… anyways picking up where I left off:
So after a lovely weekend up in Glenwood, we decided to head back a little bit early and in doing so, managed to avoid disaster!
Yeah, that’s a picture of the road that I had driven mere hours earlier. Link to the story here. It looks like I-70 was closed for at least a week! Sheesh, crazy life.
Anyways, I didn’t get as much time as I thought I would to hang out and read/write, but I was able to do some relaxing. Vapor Caves, Rosie’ s (Bavarain breakfast joint with waffles to die for #OMFG!), the hot springs, exploring the sweetness of an old and possibly haunted hotel, classy diner, late night stop to the cocktail lounge. It was pretty delicious overall.
I really enjoyed it as a couple’s getaway for the weekend but I think that it would be really badass if we got a crew of our close friends to come up and we just rolled through with about 8-10 of us. I’ll be looking into this for the future, preferably while it is still a little cold, because the cold air and snow really helps you appreciate the naturally warm waters of the hot springs (like in the picture at the top of my last post).
Other stuff that’s been going on…
I’ve finished up another couple of books since the last update and have decided to keep track of what’s going on in that realm with a BOOKSpage on the top menu. I will probably add in my thoughts on the books that I have read or am reading at some point further down the line once I get some time to put it together. I used to think that that was a silly thing that you only did in school, but I think that it is helpful to rehash what I liked out of it so that I can remember it better for my own sake and refer back to it if I need to. Plus I’ll eventually add in links, pretty pictures, etc… it’s a work in progress.
In addition there is now an ART page up there too which will include stuff that I’ve done. I have been seeing a lot of sweet art from some of my friends so maybe I will see if they will let me post some of their stuff up there too. I have been a bit of a slacker on that front and will need to get inspired to make my goal of 5 major pieces in 2010.
I’ve found that my blogging/writing (/painting?) efforts seem to trend with the amount of pictures I’m taking. And for the last couple months my camera has been busto. I used my iPhone camera for a while and still do, but it just isn’t the same.
So……. On that front, I got my camera fixed and Earthquake mode (Earthquake mode was when I would open up my camera and the lens would attempt to focus but failed causing a vibrating up and down motion that was visible through the lens and looked like the entire frame was shaking uncontrollably. Pictures without a flash were severely impacted, and even those with it had some blurring, stretching, ghosting, and other earthquake effects to them. Videos were awesome as long as you got under a doorframe asap.) is no longer a feature on my camera. So with the addition of new pics will come new creative juices and new, hopefully interesting posts…
Two things that I wanted to get in here also are #1 LOST. Things are going crazy, there are questions being answered, more questions arising, resounding critical acclaim for the most recent episode, and a whole boatload of LOST fanart popping up everywhere. A really sweet piece that I picked up for myself was this badboy1:
and #2 was a project that a friend of mine was a major part (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER nbd…) of has finally completed the second episode!
Several years in the making from the initial concept was pitched, to the completion of the first one… and second one was just released! It is a really interesting documentary series on the lifestyles of poker players. The two episodes are very different as the subjects are VERY different. The movies are very well produced and the director Ryan Firpo did an excellent job with both of them. Hopefully episode 3 is just around the corner.
If you have ever had any interest in what the life of a professional poker player is like, I would set aside an hour and 10 minutes and watch both of the episodes. It is a great look at the wide spectrum of people that make poker their living.
So I haven’t managed to eek out a post yet in 2010. That hurts.
I have a couple drafts started but no real cohesion to them and no time to sit down and bang it out, so to speak…
I am getting away this weekend up to Glenwood Springs this weekend with my lady. Where I will get to spend some relaxing time in the giant pools of the hot springs. I should have plenty of time to unwind and hopefully get in some reading and complete those drafts…
We are staying at the renowned Hotel Colorado, which has been a Glenwood Springs landmark since the 1880’s. Shown here on the left in 1893:
