Happy Thanksgiving

Sorry just been really busy with work and side work that I do that not taken much time to get on writing in my blog.

Just a note here, see Gator a nice comment and a few questions gets me responding faster than a strike. Bunny took the right tactic.

When I was around the church it was late and I didn’t even try to get in it. I think you can during some more normal hours. I thought it was cool though.

The running has been going pretty good. I have been slowly bumping up the distances lately and getting around 25 miles a week. I would like to get that above 30 miles a week, but with the cold weather it just gets tougher. I have to do a lot of my running time now around the noon hour to try and keep from freezing. I ran the local Turkey Trot on Thursday morning. It is a 4 mile run and I did it in 29:35 so held a 7:23 minute mile pace which I was happy with. I have been really slow ever since the marathon so to start getting some speed back is good. I been thinking of starting up some speed work again and if all goes well I might do it tomorrow to begin working my speed again a bit more seriously.

Thanksgiving was good as always as we went to my parents for a big fully dressed dinner. I carved the turkey which is a job I actually like to do. My mom makes a great tender moist turkey. She soaks the turkey for 24 hours in whiskey which makes it moist and mmmm mmmm good.

Today is my sister’s birthday. We ended up driving to Denver for dinner. We went to this one place and were seated. I asked for a Mojito to drink and the waitress was kind of cold and snapped that she couldn’t because they didn’t have mint. She then snapped at my sister and just was not a good start. Little did she know we would have been a big order, but instead we got appetizers and then left which is sad for her. The bill for apps and drinks was $100 so think what it could have been to her.

We then went shopping and the drove to this other place for dinner. It was a fine dining wonderful steak house. I had this New York Strip that was like eating butter. The service here was they did everything. They even cleaned the bread crumbs from the table before serving you dinner. The menu was all explained to us with parts of the food on a tray at the table. I picked the piece of meat I wanted. It was wonderful. I posted a picture of the different wines and drinks and that was just part of them.

Strike Support and Santa Fe

Thanks for the support against the Strike. I agree I fulfilled the bargin and if he had asked nicer I might have given more details to Santa Fe.

It was a business trip so was tied up in conference rooms the majority of the time. We were at a hotel in the downtown area so did a bit of walking around in that area but not too far since we had no wheels. I am posting 2 pictures I took there to give you a taste. It is the oldest know church in the Nation. Personally I like Santa Fe as the adobe etc is always

So now I have posted twice Gator!!!! Pick up the slack and do your part. :)

Strike Post

OK GATOR I got the clue.
I traveled to Santa Fe NM last week for a business trip. Been busy catching up with work since and seem to still be behind. Also I do side work and that has been real busy lately so not a lot of time to be on posting. Barely keeping up in some of the reading.
There is your post.

Halloween Items

Last night was Halloween. I missed it last year as I was traveling for work. This year it again went by very fast. It seems that every year my kids always picked some outfit that is not conducive to extended periods of trick or treating. This year my son as a High School Junior did not go out. He elected to instead play Xbox on the TV and hand out candy.

I took my daughter out with a friend of hers. It was actually a warm beautiful night and for once the kids were not all bundled up. I enjoyed walking along watching all the kids and parents walking along in the neighborhood. Little ghouls and some of the parents were also dressed up. I also now don’t have to watch my daughter go to every house so I could freely walk down the street talking to people outside handing out candy and to the other people trick or treating. I know a lot of people throughout the area so I was always talking to someone I knew and catching up on their kids.

Now to Gator’s issue. Please take into account the above paragraph of me knowing a lot of the people in the neighborhood. I as a over 40 male was even trick or treating. YES, I wandered up to a few houses and trick or treated. Instead of Candy I got a hug and a bit of time to talk to my friends. OK Gator I only trick or treated one house of someone I didn’t know. That was because she was sitting outside in a witches outfit and she handed me a piece of candy. YEP I should know better taking candy from a stranger but if my daughter can do it I figured I could also.