Category: Life

  • Dōmo Arigatō

    Dōmo Arigatō

    I read a story the other day from a person who grew up in the 80s and 90s, and always had “hilarious“ voicemail and answering machine messages. But they recently realized that nobody leaves voicemails anymore, except for Robocallers and bots. So they gave up on the funny answering machine messages, and set their voicemail…

  • The Roots Before The Roots

    The Roots Before The Roots

    A couple that Teh Spousal Unit™ and I are good friends with found out The Roots were playing a free show at Copper Mountain, and being tried and true Fun Havers®, of course they invited us to join them. We hemmed and hawed about it for a bit, as we’d been out of town every…

  • The queen will never win the game, for Rumpelstiltskin is my name!

    The queen will never win the game, for Rumpelstiltskin is my name!

    So, do you name your bikes? Your cars? Your boat? It’s a controversial subject, it seems. And there’s no in-between, you’re either a namer or a non-namer. I find the namer crowd likes to have fun with it. And the non-namer crowd, well they seem to get pretty surly about it.

  • 47 for 47

    47 for 47

    Kinda weird not being in Moab for my birthday, as has been tradition for so many years. But instead of crying over spilled milk or rampant viral pandemics as it were, I decided to make lemonades and do all the things I like doing on my birthday. Celebrated by eating my favorite breakfast and going…

  • Mountain Biking during a global pandemic, in a state with stay-at-home orders

    Mountain Biking during a global pandemic, in a state with stay-at-home orders

    A couple of things upfront: First, I live in Jefferson County, CO about a mile east of NREL, which makes several trails (including South and North Table Mountains) easily bike-able from my house. Recently, Jefferson County issued a stay-at-home order for all residents, and later that day a state-wide issue was ordered. These stay-at-home orders…

  • Apex Park Management Plan Feedback

    Apex Park Management Plan Feedback

    Hello Mr. Hoby and the JCOS staff, As a Jefferson County resident and frequent visitor to all of JCOS parks, I thank you for investigating a new management plan for Apex Park. The current management plan has proven to be inequitable between user groups, confusing for park visitors, and in my opinion has created far…

  • Just another Thursday night ride…

    A few years ago I saw a post on a Colorado mountain bike forum from a fella trying to get together a weekly Thursday night ride in the winter. I had recently been re-introduced to night riding, was in need of a crew to pedal with, and as such decided to show up. Since that…