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Feb 17 – 19, 2023

• Wavelength w/ Jordan & Sarah
• Play-Doh at Sharky’s
• Walk to Fraser River Beer Company (with Penny!)
• Winter Park gondola and wet socks
• Penny would only pee if we threw her into that one tree well

Dec 21 – 27, 2022

• Adventures by the creek
• Hand foot & mouth
• Rainbow loom
• Midcentury modern gingerbread house
• Soccer in the driveway
• Favors

Little Red at the Randy Weeks Conservatory Theatre

We all had a great fancyday in Denver. It started with brunch at Linger, Little Man ice cream for dessert, a quick pitstop at the LoHi playgrounds, a matinee musical (Nora’s first!!), and a game of tag under some gigantic dancing aliens.

Here’s a thumbnail view of our day.

Really fun night. Went with Mom & Dad, and met Jenna & Jeff at the venue. I caught a rubber pint glass 3 inches from my nose during the chaotic intermission swag-toss – it should have made it onto SportsCenter’s Top 10 that night. The show itself was pretty good, but the second half started to drag as every segment started to look like the last.

After the show, Dustin took us all to see the backstage area and green room. That was the first time I’d seen that at Boulder Theater despite having worked events there myself, and it was rad. Who knew there’s an isolated courtyard behind the theater? Wild.

I also got to catch up with Peter, who just got back from selling bespoke ski boots in Austria. Never a dull moment in his life.

Mission Ballroom (with Dustin)

• Teri Gender Bender
• The Mars Volta

Mars Volta’s setlist:

1. Vicarious Atonement
2. Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)
3. Eriatarka
4. Graveyard Love
5. L’Via L’Viaquez
6. Empty Vessels Make the Loudest Sound
7. Cygnus…Vismund Cygnus
8. Blacklight Shine
9. Drunkship of Lanterns
10. The Widow
11. Cicatriz ESP
12. Televators
13. Son et lumière
14. Inertiatic ESP

Dinner at Linger with this beautiful birthday girl. Fried cheddar cheese curds, thai shaved ice, and mocktails is the best way to celebrate 30.

She’s actually pretty stoked to be lying there.

Ally got me a juniper bonsai for Christmas. It was such a thoughtful gift, but like an asshole I killed it. I over-researched care and what it really means to be a bonsai owner, and ended up cutting off almost every branch and leaving it in the 0°F windowless garage for a few weeks. I thought it was a good idea at the time, I really did.

I gave myself a little time to grieve over the ruined gift, but then I realized Ally’s real gift to me was the empowerment of being a bonsai enthusiast…or something like that.

So I bought a new one!

This time I tried to find something a little more indoor-suitable, and decided on a Common Boxwood. It has a great shape, great partially-exposed root system, and is just the right size for a starter bonsai. To avoid killing it, I’m going to let it grow quite a bit before shaping it. They’re apparently pretty slow-growers, so I’ll wait until its trunk and main branches are thicker and more established before hacking away at them.

My coworkers flatter me.

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