You're welcome. Glad you got this fixed.
Been here a quarter of a century already. My how time flies. Used to live in California, then my family and I took off in '94. California is like the wild west in so many ways. Police helicopters shining their spot light in your backyard, daily newspaper articles of someone getting shot, fires, riots, earthquakes and the list goes on. You couldn't pay me enough to go back. When we first moved here to Loveland in '94 (not the ski resort) we had about 42 thousand people. Now the population is about 78 thousand. I'm a radio communications hobbyist and when the Blue Angels came out here to our airport I overheard from their radio chatter that they couldn't believe how big the town got. That was circa 2003. We never had a Best Buy, Macy's, a modern nice theater, multiple drive thrus, multiple restaurants, a bus service, and all the rest. Now we do. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a girlfriend that apparently lives here or used to live here and he's been in town a few times. I don't know if he's still with her now or not. I thought it was cool how he went to a restaurant called Rock Bottom years after I saw Terminator Genisys which was at a theater across the way from Rock Bottom. When I saw the movie at that theater I walked over to Rock Bottom to tie one on. The other interesting thing is that my mom worked at a gourmet food distributor in California that sold food to his restaurant in Santa Monica. I don't think he has that restaurant anymore. What's more odd is that I worked with a guy that was his accountant and knew about his restaurant. LOL! What's more, both Arnold and I share in the genealogy of Austrian. Though, I'm more of a mutt. LOL I feel like I need to meet him one day or something.
Colorado is a nice place on so many levels, but it's getting out of hand on so many levels as well. I'd personally would love to live in Florida myself. I love warmth and the ocean and if I had the money I'd build a hurricane proof house somewhere in the keys. I would love nothing more than to hear the seagulls, the occasional buoy and ship's horn along with the sound of the waves crashing on the shoreline. Living in California I've been to Newport Beach so got a taste of that experience. I was young then and when I saw that infinite blue horizon I was just in awe.
The one thing about Florida though is the humidity and I know what that's all about since I was born in the Chicago suburbs and have family there. LOL Also lived in no man's land North Dakota! If you want absolute peace where all you hear are meadow larks and not city sounds of BS, then North Dakota is where you'd go. But South Dakota is a very fine state too. Especially Dead Wood.
We have a family friend that lives in Jacksonville so I think it might just be my way of checking out Florida just to visit him. LOL
That morning, it was pretty cold and there was about three to four inches of snow on the ground.
By lunch time, it was 70 degrees and the snow was melting rapidly.
Would you believe this past September I think it was the temperature one day was 100 and the very next day, VERY NEXT DAY! the temperature was 35 with snow? Unreal. I've never saw anything like it. They say here in Colorado if you don't look like the weather wait till tomorrow. My parents used to visit Colorado in the '70s and while they were in Steamboat Springs on the 4th of July it snowed.
Right now the temperature in Miami is 60 and here in Colorado it's 18 with a chance of snow. I hate it! LOL Been here waaaay too damn long and I don't enjoy shoving snow and too damn poor to pay anyone to do it either.
It let me discover a video taken in October of this year.
It was of my wing man of 16 years, Mr. Big!
In his last year, he was blind, deaf and faithful to the end.
He died a peacefully death, in his sleep, as I had prayed for.
Now I can visit him on the video whenever I want.
Sorry about your loss. We all have to make final on that mysterious ILS as we intercept the radial between space and time.
