Found a face in the melting snow.
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The Stanley Hotel.
Freelan O. Stanley had this piano made for his wife Flora as a hotel house warming present when they opened the hotel to their friends and family in 1909. He even brought in John Philip Sousa to play it for her (Show off!). She considered the piano to be her most prized possession and loved it so much that she still shows up to play every once in a while, even though she died over seventy years ago.
Being an internationally renowned thinker, I thought it important to share with my millions of loyal readers what I've learned in my first thirty years. What follows is bound to be some of the most important information you will read all day. Feel free to take notes!
1.Say please and thank You
2.Never challenge a stop light camera
3.Wash our hands after cutting peppers BEFORE you go to the bathroom
4.Logic is not the way of the world
5.As soon as you have it figured out, it will change
6.Mint Chocolate Chip is highly underrated
7.Always order margaritas on the rocks, more alcohol for the same money
8.Scarface is not as good as you think it is 9.Hyphenated names make things more difficult, just pick one
10.College is important but way overpriced
11.There is nothing quite like sitting in the stands of a baseball game with a hot dog and a beer
12.Always look before you zip
13.Bacon is GREAT, but we seem to have gone overboard sometime back, bacon mints and flavored popcorn are a little much
14.Travel as much as you can afford to
15.Street food is awesome
16.Appreciate everything
17.No picture does the Grand Canyon justice, it simply must be seen in person
18.Live simply
19.Skinny Jeans look uncomfortable
20.Colorado is not as cold as you think it is
21.Texas is as hot as you think it is
22.Nobody wears a moustache quite like Tom Sellek
23.As soon as you get out of line for what looks like a shorter one, your old line will move much faster
24.Obsessively refreshing Facebook will make your friends post something new
25.80's movies made me expect to hear a music montage every time I was hard at work getting stuff done
26.Beer is more complex than wine
27.Mohawks are way more work than you think
28.Running a marathon is way way more work than you think
29.After running a marathon, you'll find lots of ways to work it into random conversations
30.Writing lists is more important and fun than doing laundry
The tentative title for this piece was actually...
"If Jackson Pollock Did A Lot Of LCD, Then Grabbed A Digital Camera And Twirled Around Like A Ballerina Whilst Taking Long Exposures Of Christmas Lights... And I Do Mean A Lot Of LSD"
...but I decided that was probably a little over the top. Less is more, as they say!
I always get a little pissed when I see people leave there dogs in the car. It's one thing to do so to run in and grab something from a convenience store real fast but any longer than a minute or two just sucks. This was taken in a Best Buy parking lot during the peak of Christmas shopping, where there is no such thing as just a quick run in and out. Theres no telling how long this fella had to wait. I do hope that it was long enough to leave a sizable "present" in the back seat though.
Bean.
Bag.
Tag.
Dudes.
The fine fellows at Huckleberry Roasters were kind enough to let me get in the way of their roasting operation and snap a few pics. Being a coffee novice, I had no clue of what all goes in to making coffee. As far as I knew coffee just showed up in a green and white cup or a red can on the supermarket shelf. The process makes the final product that much more fascinating to me and there is so much more to coffee then standing in line waiting for your barista. I highly suggest you skip the queue and grab a bag of some Huckleberry Roasters.