be careful what you wish for.......

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_11238895

Snow is here

Finally feels like winter. After terribly nice days we finally have some snow, which I like more than the sun anyway.

it's 17 degrees and snowing right now.

What to do????????

Not one for superstition. Never have been. But this season the Redskins have done very well when I wear my Sonny Jurgensen (thanks Xmastime!) jersey and Cam wears my Sean Taylor jersey. Some big losses their has been some wrinkle in this system. Yesterday not only did I not watch the game, but I did not even periodically check the score.

Am I jinxing the Skins?

WHERE IS THE SNOW?!?!?!!

I came to Denver specifically because it snows here, a lot. But as I am writing this, it is 78 degrees and very sunny. Everyone who lives here assures me that by April I will be tired of the snow. That may be true, but let me enjoy some now!

Because of the nice weather I have been hiking and running a lot which is nice. I plan on taking advantage of my last days of unemployment to their fullest. I feel 2008 will fly by once Thanksgiving is over.

Here are some pictures from the hikes:

Dakota Ridge Trail, Morrison (near Red Rocks)


Mesa Trail Head, Eldorado Springs



Royal Arch Trail, Boulder

Really

I am a little confused as to why some people (rednecks) think Barack Obama will "take away their gun's". Really? in an election that has not mentioned gun control, people are scared? A constitutional lawyer has been elected and after not talking about it at all he will defy our constitution? Doubtful.

Why I love Colorado

This actually happened. This is like one of Xmastime's dreams being played out in real life.

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_10907268

Election '08

It's over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Perplexed

I walked into Target today to get some Halloween candy in case any kiddies try to roll down S. Wash looking for candy. I noticed that Fat Tire and Breckenridge have put out their Winter Ales.

Ok, I thought. If it has snowed in the last 2 weeks you should be able to have a Winter ale.

But then I saw the Christmas section. A whole section. Not only has Thanksgiving not yet arrived, today is Halloween! This makes no sense what so ever. How can you justify Christmas trees next to Halloween crap.

I should not have a bag of Halloween candy in my hand and be able to see anything Christmas related.

Sigh, why couldn't I have been born in the 50's?

Things I am not....

A pumpkin carver. Cam bought pumpkins for he and I to carve tonight. And after seeing the amazing creations on the food network, I felt inspired. But after 20 minutes on the stoop carvin' up a fury, this was my result:





Cam had better luck:




Oh well. I guess I'll just cross pumpkin carver off the lists of potential jobs. Too bad, I hear it's very lucrative and there is a lot of year round business.*


Sarcasm, Sarah

Here Comes Fall!!!!

I have always loved fall. The weather is a welcome change from the sweltering heat in Virginia. This summer I didnt mind the heat because it was so dry that it was manageable for us Virginians here in Colorado. But just as the calender page turned to October, so did the weather to fall. And it feels amazing. Smelled my first fire of the season. I've been having to rock the penquin pj's around the house. And what makes this fall even better, it will snow on or before Halloween.

Awesome.

Alaska

Watching CNN as they discuss Sarah Palin and Alaska. Interesting fact:

"The Little Diomede natives are allowed to pay their taxes to the Internal Revenue Service in ivory collected from walrus hunts, being the only people in the United States that are allowed to pay taxes with something besides U.S. currency."

I would like to pay my taxes next year in baseball cards.

HAIL

Paddy Mac's Berfday!

Paddy Mac is turning 3 today so Happy Birthday lil Buddy! Wish I was sitting on the deck watching the sunset at the Weather Watchers Official Headquarters, you sipping on a juice box, your pops and I drinking/living the high life. Here are some of my favorite P-mac pics.

Rubik's Cube

Saw a guy on the train yesterday complete Rubik's Cube. He did it while talking to another person and looking out the window.

New goal. Challenge him to a Cube-off on the train.

Broncos

Pops rolled into town for my berfday. Sigh, 24. As Jono Howard says, "your mid-twenties". Great birthday present have pops see my new hood and whatnot. I showed him Union Station, the 16th St. Mall, we even went to Rockmount. Rockmount is famous for outfitting the likes of John Wayne, Eric Clapton, Tom Hanks, Clark Gable, Bob Dylan, and the Boss. Really cool store. Full of western wear. Been around forever. After that pops took me to a cajun restaurant called Gumbo, where I can honestly say I had one of the best meals of my life. I had the Chicken Dixie, stuffed with creamed spinach, wrapped with apple wood smoked bacon and topped with sautéed crabmeat. Served over herb buerre blanc sauce. As we all know, anything is better wrapped in bacon. So good.

Sunday pops and I went to the Broncos game. And what a game it was. We had seats in the nosebleed section, but then moved down to the 4th row on the 5 yard line, perfect for the final minutes of the game. We were right there as Eddie Royal (NOVA baby) caught the winning touchdown and 2pt conversion. I will never cheat on my Redskins, but it is exciting living in a city that has a team. We are 3 train stops away from the stadium. How can you not cheer for them?

Moutain Biking

Yesterday Daniel, Cameron, and myself went to Waterton Canyon to do some mountain biking. Cameron got a new bike and the lil guy was excited about trying it out. My bike however, was not new. In fact the back brakes didn't exactly work. I was completely unprepared for the trail that involved rocks, dirt, stumps, roots, steep climbs and even steeper falls. The views were amazing, when I wasn't staring at the ground praying I wouldn't crash. It was the most intense thing I have ever done. I was winded, I am bruised, and had to walk at times. We biked about 20 miles so including last weeks bike trip all over the city I'm averaging close to 25 miles a week. Pretty good for someone who stopped riding his bike at 15 because he didnt want to wear a helmet. After I get some funds I am definately buying a decent moutain bike. Below is a video of a bear we saw on the way into the trail. Too bad I didn't get a video of Daniel flying down a hill and rolling 10 times. Sigh, oh well.

Quandary

How long can I get away with the....."gee, uh...i just moved here, sorry" response when someone asks me where a street, place, area of town, my house is etc.?

DNC and Me

Cam and I walked around the city taking in the sights and sounds of the Democratic National Convention. It is great to see such a historic even happening in my backyard. I have seen protesters marching and people begging for you to take their flyers for whatever they think is the most harmful thing to the world. Lots of funny little signs all over the place. I especially like when they say something is an Obama-nation. And apparently we were on TV for a split second. I'm a star!!!! Below are some pictures from the day. Enjoy.

Im terrible at this.

Just talked to Brother Xmastime, a leader in the blogging industry and he was disappointed in my blogging. He demands more from me because one day when he dies (think latest Vegas odds have him tapping out early 2010) someone has to carry on his legacy. That being said I will try to do a lot better with this whole blog thing. I have just been super swamped recently**.

There will be some backtracking to recreate the special moments I have had in Denver thus far. I know you all love reading this blog and I owe it to you**.

So stay tuned peeps. The Wilson Boys are teaming together for some DNC Convention Action that should be good. All you Ms. Wilsons from Virginia don't worry you will see me soon**.

Later.


** denotes a blatant lie.

Things I have done in the last 48 hours that are in the Stuff White People Like book

1. Drank Tea
2. Used my iPod
3. Eaten sushi
4. Recycled
5. Stood still at a concert
6. Wore New Balance shoes
7. Watched The Simpsons


I scored a 75% on "How White Are You Test" which I was actually surprised I was that low. Of course not being a hipster basically automatically deducts points.

Humidity

I actually miss humidity. I know that sounds crazy. But dry heat has nothing. Its just direct heat. Humidity has a feel, a smell to it. Other night we had a touch of humidity, and it was great. Really reminds me of all the good times growing up. You know those days, you are outside all day not even thinking of drinking water and it's like nothing to you. I drink more water in 1 day now than I i did in a month as a kid. I guess humidity is like that friend you always made fun of and acted like you didn't like but then you realize that ya'll actually were really good friends.

Mile High Music Festival

This weekend I went to the 1st annual Mile High Music Festival here in Denver. It was awesome. I meet up with some peeps from Randolph Macon so that made it even better. 12 hours of nonstop music in the blistering hot sun made for a long day but it was still amazing. Tom Petty and the Hearbreakers put on a great show, but that can be expected from a group that has been doing this for so long. There were some great bands playing and people watching never got old. Pretty cool to be apart of the first one too. It was help at Dick's Sporting Goods Sports Complex which is huge and made for a great venue for the 5 stages. What also was neat was seeing the banners my company created for the festival. It was just last week that they came to us with some CDs and printouts and I had no idea what they wanted but seeing all the work up made a lot of sense.

Then today I bought a really nice tennis racket and Cam and I went to Washington Park played for like 2 hours. Love it.

I also bought the Stuff White People Like Book, in which I got a 75% on the how white are you test. Little disappointment.

All and all another great weekend in the Rockies.

BIRFDAY BEATDOWN!

36 years ago today, my brother was born.

1 year ago today we were celebrating his 35th birthday hand and hand as he could not stop giggling at the fact I secretly flew in to see him.

That makes up for the fact that it wasn't until 2 minutes ago I texted him his birthday wishes.

Right?

Happy Birthday Greg.

Room

I've come to realize that I operate a lot better once my room is situated. Moving from room to room in college, I always had to get the room together very quickly. That was a lot easier back then when you could buy your bedding in a bag and furniture was free and usually came with the room. I finally have my room the way I want it. It's much better than my first night here when all i had was a bed and blanket. The only other thing in my room was the trash from the bed. Pops is gonna send me some wildlife photos (shout out to Pops here) and Sistatime is gonna help when she gets out here. But as for now I like the layout.

Before:




After:
















Next up I think I am going to find a way to make my private balcony a cool place to hang out.

Tough life.

Yellow Jackets

Oh college....

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=3476639

And who was the mascot for some of those moment? They seem to forget someone got in trouble for taunting the Tigers.

Journey West

Fun Factoids about the journey to Denver:

Left Lanexa VA: 2:57 PM May 19th
Arrived Denver CO: 3:00 PM Mountain Time May 20th
Stops along the way: Ashland to see the fratdogs, and gas stops.
Miles Traveled: around 1,708
States Traveled: VA, W. Va, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas Maybe Indiana, it was really dark.
Best Site: The full moon held perfectly above the science musuem in St. Louis MS.
Worst Site: The 8th hour of Kansas.
Cars that passed me: 0
Most played song: Shades of Grey, Robert Early Keene.
Most appropriate song: Kansas City, Okkervil River (Played while driving through the city).
Home Stretch Songs: Westfall, Okkervil River; Chicago Promenade, Jason Isbell; Formula, Cola, Dollar Draft, Marah.
Tumbleweeds seen: 3
Highest price of gas: 3:98 in West VA some family owned join (hiyyyyooooooooooooo!)
Cheapest price of gas: 3.59 near Columbia MS
Beer Drank while touring new house: Coors Original
Shots made on new rim while the sun was blaring directly behind it and I wondered how a place that gets snow can possible be hotter than Virginia and wondered if I would ever know a cool breeze again: countless.

Wow

It's a little late, but I figured I'd start a blog so members of the William John McKenna Wilson Memorial Booster Club could have a way of seeing how things are going for me....without having to hear me talk. I'll keep ya'll back home as up to date as I can about the going ons in my new life here in Denver. Following in the footsteps of legendary blogger Greg Xmastime Wilson will be hard.......well actually impossible, I just had to give a shout out to the reason I couldn't ride roller coasters till I was 15 and number 1 blogger of all time (wikipedia.com, July 2008).

I have done a crazy amount of cool things already and I have only been here since May 20th. When I stop to think, it is really wild that after driving nonstop I was shooting hoops on a new basketball rim....outside my new house.....in a new city....in a new state....in a new time zone. The first two weeks were dizzying.

Now things are starting to settle and I am getting into the swing of things. It's hard to believe how amazing my life has been so far and I only hope now that I am 23 and have learned to appreciate things (the good, bad, and the ugly) that I seize this opportunity to live and learn.

Stay tuned as I try to recreate the last weeks of my life for your enjoyment.