First off - disappointing loss to the Czech Republic this morning, but what can you expect from the number two ranked team in the world? I guess I was hoping that the US would give it a run like they did four years ago and surprise the world with getting as far as they did. Hopefully they won't let this loss effect the rest of their games.
Second - and what this blog is really about is an article I read in the paper today, while eating a Big City carnitas burrito. The US team is followed everywhere they go by a huge security entourage and - get this - their team bus is the only bus out of all of the teams at the 2006 World Cup that isn't marked with the team name, the country, or the flag. In fact, the USA team bus is completely unmarked. What does that say about the state of our nation that we can't even advertise the presence of our soccer team because we're too worried that it might become a target for terrorists?
12 June 2006
09 June 2006
busy, busy, busy!
Man it's been for ever since I've posted anything on this blog! Life has been pretty full recently, but all really good things so I'm still loving what I'm doing - lot of music, working and hanging out with friends - here's some highlights:
New trivia night at Coopersmiths! First week we did it we won! Then I didn't go until last week and we came in second to this team that's won the last three weeks in a row - they're going down next week though...
End of an era - my roommates who I've lived with for four years moved out and we got together for a dinner at the house and went through all of our stuff in the kitchen and throughout the house. My new roommates have lived in the dorms and are just staying for the summer, so they don't have any furniture or kitchen things, so I had to go get a table and chairs from my parents place and went out just a couple days ago to get a George Forman grill and a toaster oven. Now I just need a blender and a coffee table and I'll be set.
Lots of good times hanging out in Boulder eating mass amounts of delicious sushi - My girlfriend left for the summer a couple weeks ago to do law clerk work at the ICTY in The Hague, so before she left I spent a lot (all) of my free time with her either in Boulder or up here, and we went out to sushi a lot and saw a lot of movies.
First BBQ of the summer! The last week in May a bunch of my friends were randomly in town and we all got together to enjoy the nice weather and had a BBQ and just basically hung out, relaxed and had fun - which really is what summer should be all about...although now that I'm no longer in school and am working full time the whole kind of bumming around town, waking up at 10:00, playing frisbee golf in the afternoon, etc... doesn't seem to work all that well.
Tons of music! Second Wind played a gig on May 19th, May 26th and 27th (with a stand in guitarist that's a story in itself) and we have another two gigs this coming weekend at The Ranch at the Budweiser Event Center! Waido, Pete and I played a gig at the Starlight last Friday night with my dad sitting in on bass - which was a whole lot of fun - and then finished the night playing at Lucky Joes. After we finished at Joe's we ended up just leaving everything set up because we were playing all night Saturday as well. This weekend we're playing a Saturday night gig at Chug's Pub which should be really low key, but a lot of fun. Also two weekends ago most of the members from Innocent Bystanders got together and jammed for a couple hours - surprisingly enough, we even remembered most of our old stuff!
Other than that, I've been watching the occasional movie (although I've just started having some free time this week) working a lot, which I'm still really liking, and enjoying the weather - even though it has been unseasonably warm recently.
So that's it for now - hopefully it won't be another month before I get time to write!
Dave
New trivia night at Coopersmiths! First week we did it we won! Then I didn't go until last week and we came in second to this team that's won the last three weeks in a row - they're going down next week though...
End of an era - my roommates who I've lived with for four years moved out and we got together for a dinner at the house and went through all of our stuff in the kitchen and throughout the house. My new roommates have lived in the dorms and are just staying for the summer, so they don't have any furniture or kitchen things, so I had to go get a table and chairs from my parents place and went out just a couple days ago to get a George Forman grill and a toaster oven. Now I just need a blender and a coffee table and I'll be set.
Lots of good times hanging out in Boulder eating mass amounts of delicious sushi - My girlfriend left for the summer a couple weeks ago to do law clerk work at the ICTY in The Hague, so before she left I spent a lot (all) of my free time with her either in Boulder or up here, and we went out to sushi a lot and saw a lot of movies.
First BBQ of the summer! The last week in May a bunch of my friends were randomly in town and we all got together to enjoy the nice weather and had a BBQ and just basically hung out, relaxed and had fun - which really is what summer should be all about...although now that I'm no longer in school and am working full time the whole kind of bumming around town, waking up at 10:00, playing frisbee golf in the afternoon, etc... doesn't seem to work all that well.
Tons of music! Second Wind played a gig on May 19th, May 26th and 27th (with a stand in guitarist that's a story in itself) and we have another two gigs this coming weekend at The Ranch at the Budweiser Event Center! Waido, Pete and I played a gig at the Starlight last Friday night with my dad sitting in on bass - which was a whole lot of fun - and then finished the night playing at Lucky Joes. After we finished at Joe's we ended up just leaving everything set up because we were playing all night Saturday as well. This weekend we're playing a Saturday night gig at Chug's Pub which should be really low key, but a lot of fun. Also two weekends ago most of the members from Innocent Bystanders got together and jammed for a couple hours - surprisingly enough, we even remembered most of our old stuff!
Other than that, I've been watching the occasional movie (although I've just started having some free time this week) working a lot, which I'm still really liking, and enjoying the weather - even though it has been unseasonably warm recently.
So that's it for now - hopefully it won't be another month before I get time to write!
Dave
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