Yesterday, Danielle lost my sunglasses in the creek, we made popcorn, and I gave Faye a ride to the grocery store. I was at Target exchanging my bike for another new once cause the tire was flat. Faye was standing at customer service asking which bus line would get her to the King Supers so she could cash a check then go buy her son a cell phone. I told her I had a car and could transport her ass there free of charge. She sat in the front seat and told us about how she worked the midnight shift at Holiday Inn Express. She mentioned that lots of people would ask her why the pillows were so flat. Her son is 6'2" and is on varisty football. Her phone plan has 4000 minutes per month, and she has roll-over.

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My cabin in Raymond, CO (population 61)

BAND photos

outside or inside my car

Saturday was extraordinary. Well, it started out when I got up at 7 all juiced to go to the waterpark. She didn't manage to roll out of bed until I half snuck in her room and woke her up. She didn't have a shirt on but I didn't really care. We left, got snacks, and then got to the waterpark. It was the same one I went to before, except now i was older and harrier. Danielle's friend met us there after we had to refill the storage containers with quarters cause she had to check her cell phone a few times to see if her friend called. We went on many a ride, including the Toilet Bowl, Space Bowls, Bermuda Triangle, and the Lazy River. It was 104 degrees outside so our feet melted to the concrete and had to be air rescued to the Denver Hospital where William Shatner did an exposé on us for a new Rescue 911. "Do you have an emergency?" Yeah, these chicken wings suck, I want a refund. Sorry, mam' we can't do that. F U!

We stayed there till it almost closed, then drove downtown to get burritos and then I surprised Danielle with tickets to the Drums Along the Rockies show (DCI). Santa Clara Vanguard was absolutely amazing and should have won. I bet the judges were deaf, dumb, and blind.

Sunday I got pissed cause my fing cabin wasn't ready cause the people moving out of it didn't have their new house ready. We drove around Nederland and found phone numbers. We would later see two places: 1: this crazy lady named Tatianna who was a playwright. She had an amazing house, an old Christmas tree still dying in her living room, and a car for sale in her driveway. Her other car had a rope door handle. She is charging 450 for a month, 10 for phone, 50 for utilities, and 150 for propane. When she dropped the 150 on propane bomb on me and Danielle, we started to wonder who she thought she could fool. B: the Other house was okay, except it smelled like big huge dog, the carpets were ruined, and the dishes in the sink look like a cave man put them there. He left the door open so people can just check it out. He had a hot tub in his bedroom. The two rooms he was offering for rent did not. He called a few times but I felt bad telling him that I was just going to wait out the cabin. Especially considering I left him a note next to his "to do list" that had had really dark scratch outs that said "I love the place, when can I move in." I rushed into that note, and I regret that.

Danielle had to work Sunday night and I decided to take myself up a hotel in Denver for 29 bucks a niter. It was nice and it turned out to be next to ANOTHER MARIPOSA (on Quebec st. as listed on the Lyons menu (photos to follow)). I got two burritos there that were good but not served with the same amount of kindness that was offered up at the Lyons franchise. Basically all I did Monday - Wednesday was bike ride, run, and swim. I actually had to remove the pool cover at the second hotel I stayed at. The lady at the desk said they were renovating and dint' want to get any dust in the pool. Good thinking on her part. But when the guy was leaning his metal ladder against my glass window that showcased a view of the greater Stapleton area, that wasn't out of line for a future 4 star hotel. It was one of those places where people stay for weeks, so i had the fortune of opening the door a few times for smokers and grocery shoppers who were just making it home (11:30pm) to their lovely 200 sq ft room with 99 channels (including ESPN and HBO) and a mini fridge. I SWEAR, NEXT MONTH I"M MOVING OUT OF HERE. I SWEAR. One lady's card didn’t work, so i let her in. She looked amazed. I said "i must have the magic touch." she looked over her glasses and said "UH-HUH".

I finished my visa, which required passport photos. I went to this UPS store on Colorado Street. It was the only one in the yellow pages that I recognized the street address to. I got photos taken, went to Boston Market, and then went to this HELL HOLE of a rip-off Kinkos. This horrible creation named Susan worked there. Hi, I'd like to send this letter off regular mail. I saw you did regular mail in the window. Do you do registered mail, because it is sort of important and I want to make sure it gets there?" "Sorry, we don’t have registered mail but we can do UPS.. " Me: never mind I'll just go to the post office, because I have to get a.. " HOLD ON, LET ME FINISH!!" She continued to explain to me how UPS would ship it for like 19.99 or some shit face amount that WOULD NEVER INTEREST me. When she fished her teacher rant, I was exhausted and wanted to shove her stupid art glasses right down her thick neck. I love it when 19 year olds act like middle school English teachers.

Joy got her plane ticket to Chicago for the 15th. I am glad. We are going to have a great time. If you live in Chicago and want to have a chili cook-off, write me and we can set that up. Me and Joy versus you.

Danielle and I are leaving for Glenwood springs for this huge hot springs pool thing. We're either going to camp or find a cheap hotel for tonight then marinate all tomorrow.

drinking rainbows and crashing into pots of gold.

Yesterday, I woke up on the floor, went and called lawyers, biked 2.75 hours around Boulder, and then went to Denver to play with the community band. They practice in this amazing old church in the middle of downtown that the man at 7-11 was so nice enough to direct me to. We played a bunch of okay stuff, none of which was too miserable. For some reason the music from "The incredibles" was good. I've never seen the movie but it had the same playabilty as the Simpsons theme song which I played at Wesleyan and enjoyed. Everyone there was nice and friendly and I played the 2nd part, as there were about 20 clarinets, 3 or 4 of which were really good. I'm not playing this concert on Saturday, but will perform the ones after that. They're playing somebody's wedding reception, but I passed on that one. They're letting me play Eb at the last concert. This crazy woman with a pink shirt and puffy hair told me how to get home in the parking lot. She is also in the clarinet section and taps her toe really loudly when playing.

Today we got up, went to the bank, coffee place, gas station to get an innertube, and then went to Lyons to park the car. When we were filling up the tubes, the man who was filling up the gas pumps asked about our tubes. He was like 350 pounds and had a Swedish accent. We asked him where he was from and he said Denver. He asked us if that was our flatbed truck out front of the station. We looked over there, and it was an 18 wheelever with gigantic concrete fittings tied to it. We unfortunately said no. We then preceeded to ride our bikes like 5 miles up stream. We locked the bikes to a sign and then got in our inner tubes adn rode down the Saint Vrain River. Danielle got freaked out. She got out half way through and sat at the Church on the River. I went the rest of the way down by myself. It was like a crazy advertisement for Colorado. Everything was hyper-beautiful. I saw two people fishing and about 100 birds. It was way better than i expected. When we got back, Danielle's neighbor said we had the innertubes only filled up half way. Maybe next tim we'll go 2X as fast.

Last night, Danielle, Trevor, and I went to the Rockies game. It was wet and wild (9th inning only). We missed the Denver Concert Band's Star Spangled Banner and America the Beautiful by minutes, but that is okay. I am starting to play with them tomorrow. I just wanted to know if they stunk or not. The game was tied 1 to 1 goign into the 9th inning and then the stugfest began. For example, somebody on the Diamondbacks hit a GRAND SLAM. The DB's (not danielle barretts) scored 7 pts. We thought it was all over. Boy were we WRONG!! Excpet that the Rockies still lost even though they did score 6 pts. Today it rained, we played Scrabble, I rode my bike for 3 hours, we had chicken wings. Tomorrow I'm calling Jerry to see if my cabin is ready. I hope it is because Brenda doesn't deserve to be moved arround any more. Also, my Target bike still needs air in the tires. Does anybody have a pump?

I left Los Angeles on Saturday morning with Joy and my cat. Joy sat in the passenger's seat. Brenda sat under the chair, on top of a pile of jackets, under my clarinet, in the window, and on the dashboard. It was a fun ride out to Joshua Tree where we picked up Stephanie who's car wouldn't start. She is living with a new guy. She has an outdoor shower and plenty of room to do what she wants. We drove to Las Vegas and almost ran out of gas. Then we pulled in the Wynn with minuaturer bikes atop. We had to cover brenda, shuffle bikes, and get our asses up to the room. We went swimming while Brenda foudn new dark spots to hide under in a luxury resort room. It was bliss. Andy, Miki, and John got there after midnight. Stephanie and Joy and I had buffet at Treasure Island. It was killer. We swam, ate, and played mostly Sunday and Monday. My muffler looked like it was falling off so Joy and I went to Meineke. A man fixed it for free so I gave him $7 for lunch. That was after I went to put Brenda in pet hotel for Monday because the Palms didn't have our room open on time and the only other options were to carry her around casino floors or to leave her in the car. By the time we sat in traffic on the strip for an hour, the lady from the Palms said the room was ready. Brenda sat on down blankets for most of Monday evening.

I left Vegas 4th of July morning and drove to Selena, Utah. A bunch of bikers lit off some fireworks next to my car. I asked them to move and they did. Then the next morning i was swimming and all of them piled in the pool. I got out. I thought they wer egonna kill me so i went and got a Frosty adn drove with Brenda in the passenger seat for 12 hours until i pulled onto Aprapahoe Street in Boulder. Danielle had a hat on and had a stomach ache and her allergies to cats was the icing on the cake. But we got her in the apartment and then went and played pool and had a burger as this was my last day of gross food. I am taking care of myself for the next 6 weeks for a number of reasons.

So today, Danielle and i saw tons of gulches and found an amazing cabin in Lyons but it is actually in Raymond, CO. Jerry owns it and will rent it to me. It has water, electric, parking, and a phone. I am very excited EXCEPT that it's not ready for a week so i think i have to camp or something. Which is fine, excpet for hte fact that I'm too lazy to dig out my clothes from the bottom of my car so I've been wearing a Cracker Barrel shirt and Khaki shorts since Sunday morning.

My new address is 2184 RIVERSIDE DR #4 LYONS CO 80510 Send me explosives

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