Welcome First Timers to my Blog

I'm really sheepish about publishing my own opinions despite how much I may like to talk about them and how correct they all may be. It just strikes me that this may be a good way to post stories or events or announcements or anything that we'd like to post in order to keep in touch. I looked into websites and myspace and facebook. Facebook was okay, but this is sooooooo much cheaper and/or easier than all of those options and I don't feel so much like a teenager when I post something. I feel 24 or 25 at least! Anyway, welcome. Feel free to respond to this blog or others so that you can see how easy it is too.

The pictures here are of me as an old man when I learn to play the guitar and sing for loose change and then when they shrink my head and put me in an Ecuadorian museum. They're pics from our trip to Ecuador.

The Baseball Debate

This is a picture of Ashley, my loving, understanding, enabling, beautiful wife. I married very well to say the least. I am also in the picture with my Rockies beenie and Rockies jacket. Ashley didn't know that Boston wears red and showed up to last year's World Series game 4 (as pictured) wearing her lovely, red turtle neck sweater. It was a cold day to say the least, but I've forgiven her for making the Rockies lose the game and series.

Here's the grind: This was my seventh season working for the Rockies. We talked about bucket lists on the last blog. Attending the World Series was ALWAYS on mine until last year, when God sent the World Series to me. I hope he's not helping me cross out the list because he knows something I don't. Anyway, we spent about $400 for tickets, a hundred or so for food and souvenirs, we go on a road trip with the team every year for a vacation, it's a little more than a passion--we're talking borderline obsession that I may need professional help to overcome.

The Rockies are about to present National League Championship rings which could go anywhere from $50 to thousands. Should I, or better put, how should I go about this proposition to my extraordinary, patient, longsuffering wife?

Did I mention how much I love her???

http://64.235.35.226/rings/

10 Things on my Bucket List

I had a Bucket List long before the movie came out. Mine is mostly about places I want to go, and it's not in any order.

1. Yankee Stadium (This July)
2. Wrigley Field (Next Year before it's called something else)
3. Float the Amazon River (December)
4. See China--Float the Yellow River, Terra Cotta Warriors, the Wall--and then get outta there!
5. Float the Nile River without getting eaten by a hippo or crocodile or mosquitoes.
6. Float the Mississippi River without getting eaten by a 9' catfish or mosquitoes or rednecks.
7. Pan for gold and fish in Alaska when it's warm.
8. Own a beachhouse in a less commercial part of the country.
9. Learn to fly.
10. Take the kids on a church history driving tour. (That one's tricky because I'm gonna have to have kids first)