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Thank you AAA.

Ace here just locked himself out of his car and apartment, just outside his apartment at 1:30 in the morning. I had the opportunity to hang out by my car for 40 minutes waiting for the locksmith. I enjoyed myself, I think I took some good night shots of the neighborhood I wouldn’t have taken otherwise. Did some lunges, gotta stay in shape!

about the bug-
It’s so nice to hear compliments on my old car. The locksmith commented on how he was looking for one and how great they are in the snow. Last night at Ty’s party Ben asked about the bug, and still thinks its awesome. Yay for loving your car. Speaking of, I have some threads stripped on the headlight assembly, if any readers have some Helicoil experience shoot me an email or give me a call, I have some questions.

Merry Christmas!

34 inches so far!

More pictures

As I mentioned in the last post, Tuesday night’s drive home was erie, but there was NO precipitation. Wednesday morning I wake up to see quite the volume of snow falling, and here it is Thursday and it is just winding down. I have a few stories of adventures to tell you so here goes.

I decided I had too much of hanging out in the house by myself around 6 pm last night. I decided to make myself some snow boots. Here is the recipe:

1 - pair of socks
2 - grocery bags
1 - old pair of tennis shoes
1 - snow pants

Directions: Put on snow pants. Apply socks to feet. Apply grocery bags to feet as to have the most excess by your ankles. Put covered feet into tennis shoes. Tie accordingly. Tuck elastic band of snow pants down as low as you can, over the tops of the grocery bags. Enjoy your new waterproof high performance snow shoes!

With super snow shoes, I set out on a walk to the grocery store. First steps past the covered porch don’t look bad… Walk to side walk WOW! The plow had pilled the snow pretty good on the side walk. It was past my knees! I dredged through the deep to the street, and just walked the street to the store. The walk was pleasant, only about 4 cars passed me in downtown Golden. The grocery store was having it’s parking lot plowed by two trucks, well one truck and one huge front end loader. Inside it was very quiet, only one register open. I grabbed some emergency milk, bread and oatmeal. I saw the shovels on the way out and thought that’d be pretty use full, being my car’s under a large amount of snow and all… Bought the shovel got home, and hey, new toy shovel. I went out and shoveled this amazing clearing for my bug to back out of, a curved path for my bug to though the snow, and the deep snow the plow had piled up. I decided its time to have some fun in the bug, turn the key… werr, werrr. The battery was dead! I had to push start it when I left littleton Tuesday night, but I thought it would have charged. My guess is the generator must not put out enough power to charge the battery with head lights and speakers on. Lesson learned. Oh, but I just shoveled HOW much snow for what. Ok I was enjoying the snow shoveling.

The neighbor a house down from me, who I hadn’t meet was out. I’m thinking, this snow is going to sit around, and this dead battery is going to stay a problem until I fix it. Maybe I go buy a new battery, err, or if I could find a battery charger I’ll just carry the battery into the house and charge it. I introduce myself to the neighbor, turns out he’s a guy I’d guess to be in his 30’s who is a sophomore at Colorado School of Mines. No charger, but he offers to jump me. We get the bug going with out too much excitement, I help him shovel his landlords driveway as I let the bug idle.

The bugs running… I shoveled behind it. I kinda wanted to wait until my neighbor went back inside incase I created more adventure by backing it out. Nah, I won’t wait. I back her out, of the drift, is it crazy slick. I’m going downhill so traction for power isn’t an issue, but traction for steering is. There’s not too much of it! Alright, bottom of our hill, I attempt going forward up the main street, Washington. With my neighbor as the audience, the beetle moves a bit forward but then gives into slipping. Having fun and determined to get the bug out while everyone else is snowed in, I back it up, and get a running start! The bugs roaring happy RPMs, and I’m smiling. All the windows are fogged over, so I put both of them down.

I made it downtown, but decided that’s as far as the roads would let me, it was too deep to get off washington. I try to put my bug back in the drive I dug out, first I try backing in (would be impossible to pull a U-turn,) too much slippage no motion in desired direction. I make a lap around the block, hoping I can keep my momentum through the back streets and not get bogged down. While keeping up my speed I missed my turn! Oh I was having a blast, the car was happy! We had to do another lap! This time with momentum and the bug going forward I slid into my spot. Good adventure, good adventure indeed!

Otherpeople’s fun adventures:
Greg H was snowmobiling around his house in Golden.
Two neighbors came snow boarding past.
Mom says “we haven’t seen a plow, only snowmobiles going by.” She is also canceling their flight that was supposed to leave on Friday.
CNN says “More than 1,000 flights were canceled through Thursday, and as many as 3,000 people were stranded at the airport.”
Ryan B has had two flights from CA to CO cancelled.
Taylor B says ” I’m grounded until Sunday in Nashville TN… Hopefully I can get back to Denver by the time Santa makes it to 1350 Ascot”

Good ole’ Colorado to return to. Sunny but chilly day today when I got back in town, but look what’s on the menu!

Snowfall will become widespread late tonight and continue into Thursday with total snowfall amounts of 10 to 20 inches. North winds at speeds of 10 to 25 mph will cause some blowing and drifting snow.

Winter Storm Warning

Driving up to Golden late tonight was weird, reminded me of some morning drives in California from Stockton to San Francisco. Fog. Not much wind, but the street lights glowing with all the moisture around them. Minimal visibility, I couldn’t even tell I live by Lookout Mountain or the “M” or towers on top.