No skiing.

Snowmass Village

I’m beat. Yesterday afternoon took way too much out of me. I was too tired to ski today. You can say age is just a number, but 69 is a pretty high number for a crip. The years are catching up with me.Hopefully, I’ll be able to ski tomorrow.

Good morning. Skied a bunch. Unfortunately, that made for a bad afternoon since I was tired. Made a lot of sloppy rookie moves and fell a lot. Also, for some reason, I’m having trouble getting off the lifts. Don’t know why.

What’s up with us letting Iran take our sailors hostage? More smart diplomacy. Our enemies are laughing at us. Thanks Obungler voters.

Snowmass Village

Time to hit the slopes! But first we needed to make a few adjustments since I’m on a new ski. Blew our first lift load. Blew some unloads as well. Had some binding problems. Even so, I blew down Bull Run super fast. Not bad for not skiing in two years. Then, next time down, I worked on speed and edge control. In the afternoon we did Naked Lady and Coffee Pot twice. My sister knows about these runs which is why I’m naming them. With any luck, I’ll be good enough next month so she’ll have fun skiing with me when we come back on the Shepherd Crip Trip.

I’m beat. I’ll sleep tonight.

Snowmass Village Colorado

I made it! Didn’t leave Denver until 8:00 and in spite of rush hour traffic and a stop at Walmart in Glenwood Springs, I still made it to Snowmass by noon. Great weather but cold. Stopped ayt the Challenge Aspen office and I’m all set up for skiing tomorrow.

A late New Year’s pun from Ron in Ohio.

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Denver Colorado

Up early because I couldn’t sleep. Hit the road around 6:00 AM. It was 5 freaking degrees! My windows were frozen shut. they were still that way when I hit the Kansas Turnpike so I had to open the door to get the ticket and do the same to pay when I got off. $2.75 for 40 or so miles. What a ripoff! About four hours after hitting the road, the driver’s side window finally unfroze so I could open it. Yesterday, I gassed up at the last minute so I would have a lot of gas in the tank and wouldn’t have to stop until it warmed up. How did that work out? It was 9 freaking degrees when I had to fill up. It didn’t hit the teens until around 10:00 o’clock. It did eventually make it up to 40 degrees. It is nice filling up the tank of the Cripmobile for less than $40.

I really made great time today. I got to Denver around 2:30. Caught the tail end of the Minnesota/Seattle game on the radio. The field goal kicker missed a chip shot and Minnesota lost. Too bad. He’ll get blamed, but Peterson shouldn’t have fumbled earlier in the game. I knew two teams that were guaranteed to lose over the weekend: Houston and Washington. If you couldn’t defeat the Atlanta Falcons during the regular season, you didn’t belong in the playoffs.

Anything else interesting today? Nope. Tomorrow it’s Snowmass and the weather looks good so I shouldn’t have any problems getting through the Eisenhower Tunnel or over Vail Pass.

One more from Wishbone Ash. This is the best version I could find with the original members.

Independence Missouri.

It’s that time of year again. Time to hit the slopes. Left my house at 6:00 AM EST and arrived here at 4:30 PM CST. 800 miles in 11 hours and 30 minutes which works out to an average of a little less that 70 MPH. I drove a little faster than usual since I’m using my BIL’s old radar detector.

I was a little worried about the weather. The weather report of KC and Denver looked OK, which is what I worried about. Atlanta to St. Louis sucked! It rained all the way across Kentucky and most of Illinois. Right before I got to St. Louis, the rain changed to snow and it snowed until about 40 miles west of St. Louis. Evidently, last night the weather must have really been bad between St. Louis and Columbia, Missouri since there were a few cars and trucks that had run off the road. I saw one pickup truck that had flipped over and was on the side of the road upside down. The snow plows were out, but there wasn’t all that much snow to be plowed.

Caution! Racist stuff follows.

I am really amazed at all of the growth there is across the Missouri River in St. Charles County and all the way out to Wentzville since I left St. Louis in 1985. I-70 has been widened to five lanes each way in places. Wonder what caused that? I’ll tell you what. Self preservation. As blacks migrated from North St. Louis to North St. Louis County to places like Ferguson, home to St. Michael of Swisher Sweets, they brought their crime and dysfunction with them. It’s sad that 13% of the population of the United States, blacks, commit over 50% of the crime. And they wonder why there is racial profiling. In St. Louis, blacks make up around 50% of the population but are responsible for over 80% of the crime. Often St. Louis is the murder capital (murders per 100,000) of the US.

So blacks left the city and moved to the county. Whites in the county, anxious to escape the crime, migrated across the Missouri River to St. Charles and points west. Thanks LBJ and the Dimocrat Party for the Great Fucking Society. Thanks for creating a permanent black underclass of uneducated people dependent upon the gummint. Thanks for breaking up the black family, sumpin’ Jim Crow and the KKK were unable to do. Currently, approximately three out of four black children are born out of wedlock. Black male children do not have fathers and as such have no positive role models. Their role models are athletes, thug rappers, pimps, and drug dealers. People who should be role models, like Ben Carson, a successful neurosurgeon are derided for not being genuinely black. Disgusting. What Dimocrats have done to blacks is a crime, but it’s Republicans who are racist. Meanwhile, we have the useful idiots like the CBC, who live like royalty, and the RWPPs like the fake Reverends Jackson and Sharpton who are in on the scam and have become rich exploiting “their people”.

But I digress.

I don’t know where the term, “flat as Kansas” came from. Have you ever driven across Illinois? Now that’s flat. It’s flatter than Kansas that’s for sure.

As I crossed the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers below the Lake Barkley Dam and the Kentucky Lake Dam in Kentucky, I don’t remember ever seeing the rivers so high. The Ohio River was higher than I have ever seen it as well. I couldn’t judge the Mississippi River at St. Louis because I-70 now goes across a new bridge upriver from downtown so I couldn’t see how high the river was at the downtown levee. They say this flood was not as bad as 1993, altho’ the Meramec River, a tributary south of St. Louis, set a flood record.

It was 50 degrees when I left Atlanta this morning. It’s currently 16 degrees here in Independence. Brrrrrr!

Tomorrow, I only have to drive 600 miles to Denver.

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