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Oct 04, 2007 08:33

It occurs to me that I forgot to post last week's bowling night. It is quite possibly due to the fact that I did so abysmally that my denial apparatus went into overdrive to block it all out. I truly tanked my average by bowling a 97, 110 and 101. A series where I barely broke a hundred average really jarred my senses a bit. There was a moment ( Read more... )

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Hey! Flashback city! lafemmemakita October 6 2007, 00:02:44 UTC
Hi, Fishtie! I was surfing after work to avoid rush hour, and I stumbled onto this page. This is almost as weird as when I try to fill in my family's geneaology from German webpages. You remember my last name, and I'm in the white pages, so give me a call if you want to go skiing (or snowboarding) or if your swashbuckling brings you through my town!

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Re: Hey! Flashback city! fish_tie October 11 2007, 15:35:32 UTC
Hey there stranger. How's tricks?

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Re: Hey! Flashback city! lafemmemakita October 12 2007, 18:19:12 UTC
Well, I fulfilled Frank's dream of owning a Fight Club House. I have a friend here who is your Evil Twin (except he's a gearhead)and we even hit golf balls against the back of the garage. Another time, he came over to watch a movie, and I stepped through a floorboard. He started laughing at me, so I got even with him later. He started to set his glass down on the floor, and I started shrieking, "DON'T LEAVE A RING!" He fell for it, then started laughing. The house is what a co-worker (who just completed a Real Estate course) refers to as 'Interim Use'. It's when the value of the land without a structure exceeds the value of the land with the existing structure. But I have a huge backyard, which is most important, and it's zoned for a duplex, so eventually I plan to build a better garage with an apartment over it, and then get my own Fonzi to live up there. Also, my neighbors have enough problems of their own that they don't hassle me about storing sheets of drywall on the front porch or other things Martha Stewart would not approve of ( ... )

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Re: Hey! Flashback city! lafemmemakita October 12 2007, 18:19:46 UTC
Two years ago, when it looked like the Broncos had a slim chance of surviving the playoffs, I brewed up some homemade hooch out of persimmons. If drunk within the first 2 weeks, which would have been about Superbowl time, persimmon beer is cloudy orange, fizzy, and low in alcohol. If, however, the Broncos choke as usual and the stuff sits firmly corked in your crawlspace for, oh, about six months, all the particulates settle out and the transparent, apricot-pink fruit wine has a delightfully delicate bouquet and initial palate. . . .And then it goes down like raw tequila. Supposedly, it's impossible to get much above 14% alcohol through fermentation alone, but this stuff must have wound up at about 15% or higher! It became a great punchline when friends would drop in, and then start hinting around about a drink. My friend Glenda (the Good Witch), grew up in San Diego and 'must' have a little wine with her meals, actually enjoyed it. The rest would approach it very gingerly, grudgingly finish it, then ask when I would be making ( ... )

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Re: Hey! Flashback city! lafemmemakita October 12 2007, 18:19:55 UTC
Now that I'm out from under the thumb, I've gone back to a lot of my old sports and taken up new ones. I suck at snowboarding, but there's a very steep and deep grassy swale right in front of our building, so I'm thinking about zipping up an insulated bunny suit over my 'Corporate Casual' clothes and taking a few tumbles during lunch this winter. Also, I've been slowly but surely ticking off the 14,000 foot peaks around the Denver area. Hikers in Colorado are such snobs, they don't count 13,000 footers!Well, except James Peak, which begins with an almost-vertical climb up St. Mary's glacier (near my family's private campground) and ends with a very, very stormy and steep peak. That one is tough enough that it 'counts'. DONE IT! I've been ice-skating sporadically, also. There are lots of community rinks around here, and it's pretty cheap. There's one 2 blocks from work, and it's where the Avalanche practices. Mostly, I've been running a little, and biking a lot. There's a GORGEOUS bike path that runs along a small, lazy river running ( ... )

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Re: Hey! Flashback city! lafemmemakita October 12 2007, 21:55:05 UTC
I suppose I should cut & paste all this to my page - it will fill it in a little. I might start posting some pictures, but I doubt if I'll use it like you're supposed to.

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