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.