Real winter.

I guess this is a real Colorado winter. We are in day two of a three day snowstorm, though we have maybe 5 inches so far and are predicted to get 4-5 more. So that's not too bad. We have no highs above 40 degrees in the next ten days, and won't even be above freezing until Friday. I would say so far this year we have gotten 3 - 4 feet of snow.
I have really been wanting to go mountain biking lately, but of course with the weather as it is, that hasn't happened and doesn't look like it will happen anytime soon. I've even been taking it pretty easy climbing. We went to Movement last Wednesday and I think that was the last time I climbed.
I think our trip was a bit disappointing to me in that I spent so much time training and felt like I really didn't do much of anything and was wondering if it was all worth it. I can see that having an impact on the psyche.
However, this past week we saw a great movie called between the trees. It was shot in the spring of 2009 in Fontainebleau, France and documents Ty Landman and Keith Bradbury climbing a ton of problems there.

Teaser 1 from unclesomebody on Vimeo.

It was pretty inspiring and ends with Keith unable to finish off his main goal of the trip - Gecko Assis. He reflects on reasons why and of course, vows to return. It is disappointing sure to not be able to do something you think you should be able to do, but I did have fun on our trip, and it is really about being out there with friends and having a good time.
Anyway, this got be psyched to get out to Haycock when I am home visiting, so I am planning to get up early on either the 23 or 24 and spend the day there. I am trying to work out a list of problems I would like to do that are within my range and can be easily reached in one day. Should be fun.
I am thinking about my next batch of beer. I think I may do a porter that is in the book I have and sounds pretty interesting. My last beer turned out soooooo freakin good. I will definitely make it again.
Work was ok this week. Thursday was slow, but I was pretty busy on Friday. I took a few drinks up to a room and got a little bit of an extra tip. I forgot to open the bottle of Pellegrino they ordered and headed back a few minutes later and got to talking to the guy who was exceedingly nice. We talked a bit, and that would have been it, but I decided they were so nice that I got them a dessert on me and brought it up a bit later. Of course they were in the bathtub at that time, but he said to swing by the next day and he would give me his business card and talk some more maybe.
Unfortunately I didn't make it up as we were very busy Saturday night as our restaurant was bought out for a holiday party. But he left his card at the front desk for me. I will have to shoot him an email and say thanks.
People never cease to amaze me.

Over.

Unfortunately my motorcycling season has come to an end. I did get to ride in great weather on Friday (almost 70!) but had a chilly trip home and with the weather forecast looking cold - highs in the low 40's and lower - for the time being, I decided it was time to put er down. Today I changed the oil, oil filter, added a fuel stabilizer, and put the battery on a charger. That should take me through winter in good shape to get riding again in the spring.
I was thinking adding heated grips might get me a bit farther into the year, but really if it is 40's during the day it'll be 20's at night and heated grips or not, that is too cold! Plus that would be 100 bucks I would put into the bike that I wouldn't get back when I sell it, though it looks as though I may not be selling as soon as I thought.
Katie has expressed an interest in learning how to ride! We were going to go across the street today, but it is just too cold and I wanted to get it set up for winter. Once things warm up some, I guess I will teach her the basics and then she will take the same class I took and then take over this bike.
I have finally gotten some of our movies from our trip together, though I still have yet to edit. First I needed an external hard drive, as I didn't have enough room on ours. Then I tried the editing software that came with the camera. It sucks, so I went to windows movie maker which I have used before. But then the file format the camera uses isn't recognized by wmm. Eventually I downloaded a free program to convert the files to a format recognized by wmm. Hopefully soon I will have something.
Not much else going on really. I am really looking forward to some time off and seeing my family.