Vail Life

Slacking.

With my camera out for repair and not a whole lot going on with my life I have not had much to post about. Basically I am in coast mode.

It did snow since I last posted. A lot. And it got cold.

Thankfully I got my rack on my car before I had to deal with doing that outside in the snow and cold. But now I need to try and remember where I packed away my winter gear because I want to find my driving gloves. My hands freeze every morning when I have to go start up my car right now.

This Friday if Dredmon remembers to bring in his camera I will get a new comic up. I also need to look at my beta site and play with that some more so I know how and if it will work as a replacement. It is definitely cleaner then my front page but then again it doesn't have links to my friends sites.

I am thinking I would like to make the links to friends more consistent so I am thinking of making small Stikfas represented banners to link out to friends. I will have to play with that idea and see how it turns out.

Outside of the weather and my comic not a lot of excitement. Like I have mentioned before I have gotten into the winter routine. Heroes, Trivia, D&D, Smallville, and a Warcraft weekend.

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Drunken blogging

This is the blog you write after you may have had one too many and you get a little maudlin.

My Season Three Girlfriend.

I have had a few girlfriends in the four years I have lived here. I have had two that we actually acknowledged we were "boyfriend and girlfriend" since moving here. That is not a lot.

Every so often you meet a girl that is sexy, cool, and fun to hang around. But you have a girlfriend and she has a boyfriend. Then one of you break up and you look at the other in a more romantic light knowing it cannot work. Then you find someone new and the other is single. Once again it doesn't work out.

Then finally in season three of the series you both find yourself single. Yet the match isn't quite there yet.

Yes I watch too much TV and read too many stories where the guy gets the girl and then love each other ever after. I have become much more cynical and realize the world doesn't work like that. It still doesn't help me from keeping on hoping I will meet that girl.

I have had nights like that and it makes me sad when I go home. I feel a connection to someone and when I get home I realize it is all in my mind and I make too big of a deal out of a friendship. There are people I hang out that I would love to see a friendship turn into a relationship and find out if they are at last the person I have been looking for my whole life. But time and time again I find out we are best friends, not a romantic pairing.

It is hard and even at age 31 I find myself still in the same emotional turmoil as when I was 16. Is that an indicator that I have never grown up? And if growing up to "settle" for someone means the loss of fun and spontaneity that I will sometimes have is it worth it?

I do not feel grown up. I play and I play hard. Does growing up and settling down mean an end to all play? Is that why I sabotage my own relationships?

Looking at myself I don't feel that is it. I don't feel I sabotage any relationship I have ever been in. I think the reason I have yet to find a relationship work is because I have an issue being "best" friends with my girlfriend or they have an issue being best friends with me.

I truly feel the person I will finally meet and fall truly in love with will understand what I do, if not always why I do it, and I will understand what she does. It is not that we need to reveal everything to each other, it is that we need to understand there are something's in our lives that we will just not understand about each other and we will accept and love each other for those things.

P.S. I have checked this for spelling but not grammar so may have some mistakes in it.

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I have gotten back into my Winter schedule of Heroes on Mondays, Trivia on Tuesdays, D&D on Wednesdays, Smallville on Thursdays, and Friday, Saturday, Sunday are either World of Warcraft or whatever else may pop up.

And yeah JeepGirl has asked me and Brass to join her to going back to Loaded Joes trivia nights. She has some cute girlfriends so until something better comes up I go.

I winterized the bike yesterday. I was debating getting leathers and continuing to ride it for a while yet. But the bike itself decided for me that it was going into storage. When it is 40-45 degrees outside that bike will not start. It took me 30 minutes and me draining the battery to the point that I had to turn off the ignition and wait and hope that I still had some juice left to start it. That bike is not made for cold weather and so it is now parked for the winter in my garage.

I did get in one last ride on Sunday before putting the bike away. Sunday it was cold here. I think it got up to 45 in the valley but when I drove up to Wildridge it was at least 10 degree colder and there was snow on Beaver Creek. Winter is definitely on its way.

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