Aspeny…

Read it, don’t read it, I don’t care…just needed to get some things off my chest.

In no particular order of chronology or importance…

On the clock. Not an airplane rant.  Evening rant.  Super-speed version.  Let’s turn and burn.

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1. Greetings and salutations, people.  Thanks for coming aboard (the boat).  This will be one sentence hook, super speed style.  For newbies, that means I haven’t cleared the list in a while, and my thoughts are summarized into one sentence per.  I need to rock through this quickly, as I still have work to prep for, and am tired.
2. I will put all of the Aspen pics at the end.
3. JJ-no pops as I am tired from Aspen.
4. I have the World Series on in the background, and am on record for the Royals in 6, or said differently, hitting and fielding will beat great young pitching in this Series.
5. So, Brian Hoyer pretty much is out of any QB starting spot battle for the rest of the year I assume.
6. If I was with a company with a charter flight, I personally would set 15 alarms to make that flight.
7. The Royals just got an inside the park HR…wow.
8. Before we all write off Baylor, check out the credentials on this kid about to start…stud and top recruit coming out of high school.
9. And, that SYSTEM will still allow them to be very, very dangerous to anyone on the other side of the line.
10. Before we worry about Bama having a close call, know that teams all can’t be the 1995 Huskers, and Tennessee has had a top 5 recruiting class pretty much 3 of the last 4 years I believe.
11. The Phils named a new GM, and he can’t do any worse.
12. Wait, I just saw a commercial, and they are making a movie called Creed with Apollo’s SON????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
13. And it has Stallone in it?
14. Wow, I am the biggest Rocky fan I know, but let it go already.
15. Very quietly, the Arizona basketball team got a small punch in the gut, as their #29 recruit blew out his other knee (from high school) and won’t play this year.
16. I don’t feel like talking about the Steelers game except to say it had all the dressings of a trap game and I still didn’t see it.
17. OU made Texas Tech look pretty ordinary at best, and Tech is not that bad of team.
18. The Sooners will jack everything up if they can somehow run the table.
19. Al Golden won the competition (in hellacious style) of beating Mike London in getting fired the fastest this year.
20. I may or may not be researching HOW you get on Drunk History.
21. The comeback of Toledo this weekend negates the conversation topic that they shouldn’t HAVE to come back against…UMASS.
22. I didn’t see the game, but just was watching the points go higher and higher on the Skins game Sunday.
23. If anyone is interested in an Escape Room in Breckenridge (where you get clues how to get out of somewhere), I have a person who runs one.
24. I won’t waste time trying to write something more eloquent than professionals have done in the last couple days, but damn is Flip Saunders a hell of a loss to the sports world and this world in general.
25. Arian Foster’s career path officially and unfortunately has more similarity to the career path of Tracy McGrady.
26. Speaking of McGrady’s career path, shame to hear Derrick Rose is still having blurred vision.
27. Clemson just might be a REALLY good, championship caliber football team.
28. AND have the cush ACC teams to play against.
29. I believe the stat is now 30 points TOTAL for five losses for Nebraska football, and that sounds painful enough until we remember they can’t even just look forward to basketball season.
30. I love Mike Tomlin’s brave coaching style, but he is getting a LITTLE carried away on these 4^th down decisions.
31. The Jets gave the Pats a run for their money, and has there EVER been an NFL team where the coach just basically tells Brady “we know we have no run game and don’t care, so just go out and throw that thing around 50 plus times?”
32. Not sure if he will still be airing it out like that in 2025, but apparently he is going to try.
33. I don’t care whether it was seafood or chewing tobacco, but would prefer a few more yards for my fantasy teams, A.P.
34. Matt Cassel might look back on Sunday and realize he has been given plenty of chances on a couple decent teams to be a WINNING QB for his career.
35. Daniel Craig is apparently saying he is about done with Bond movies, and I feel like he has done well in the role and I just now picture Bond as him, so he won me over.
36. That being said, now comes the enjoyable cyclical time frame where we wonder “who’s next?”
37. That would be a fun game to play of picking who famous is in that next James Bond time period of their career.
38. Arizona won a football game they should Monday night, and I don’t think anyone is really totally sure how the Ravens are sucking this bad.
39. Speaking of absolute confusion, the Lions fired their OC, and no one is totally sure what is wrong with them either.
40. I think they should punish Greg Hardy for something soon, so that just must mean that he will get a raise and extension very, very soon.
41. My fiancée and I get along despite the fact she somehow thinks Queen is a better group than Led Zeppelin.
42. I heard this new revolutionary Adele song…it is ok.
43. Do you think the Memphis coach just got home from practice and is just working out the kinks in his resume for whatever big schools have openings next year?
44. I can’t decide whether I want Johnny Manziel to do something else stupid OR have UCLA’s Josh Rosen do something else stupid/ marginally cool.
45. Josh has allegedly removed the hot tub from his college room though, and that is probably to have more room for chicks in there who show him their numbers at games.
46. Pitino has a chance to ride into the sunset right now, but I think he will keep on trucking to show he really didn’t do anything wrong with the program.
47. I might miss a story here and there, but kind of confused why Clinton Portis is telling us about Jim Zorn’s faith in the locker room NOW.
48. The NBA season kicked off, and I will have preview info, but not today.
49. That’s it for tonight. Hope you enjoyed or at least are more informed.  Will I blog tomorrow?  That is a CLOWN question, bro.
50. And for those of you who want to stick around, here is a quick run through of my Aspen trip.
51. A big thank you to Steve, Lindsey’s dad, as most of the pics throughout this blog could NOT occur without him, as although I visit Aspen, I definitely couldn’t afford these places and probably wouldn’t try.  He allows us to experience these though.
52. Get the Penne with Rock Shrimp at Mezzaluna and add sausage…I had the best dish at the table.
53. It doesn’t matter when it comes up, the Family Guy The Bird is the Word scenes are funny.
54. The crab cakes at fancy element Element 47 were good, but when it comes to crab cakes, I think nothing sitting on a dock in Maryland.
55. Card Against Humanity is our go to late night game, but they really just need to release more of the black cards for a reload.
56. Go to Hickory House if you want some of the best barbeque you have ever had.  
57. The Square Grouper is still my favorite place there though…more of a drinking place as they have a great menu but I have never seen more than three tables sitting in their dining room.
58. We took the Glenwood route there, and Independence Pass on the way back.  I think Glenwood/ Cardonale put up a fight this trip, but Independence Pass still won it overall.  The road probably closes in a couple weeks, so glad I got one more peak at it (no pun intended).  
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60. If you are anywhere NEAR where the San Fran band The Stone Foxes play, go see them.  Black Keys with White Stripes in the sound.
61. I always forget when you go over the Divide, you still have like 50 other mountains to see.  
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63. We went and checked out Maroon Bells.  Luckily, Lindsey and I have seen them before, as we just got fog that day.  This was our view.  
64. Just missing that thing in the middle… 
65. They were renovating the Opera House, so Justice Snow’s was closed during our planned burger lunch of the best burger in Colorado.  
66. Catching any type of show at Belly Up is incredible.  We caught Berkel Beats on Saturday.  
67. Not sure if anything DJ like will compare to Skrillex in Vegas, but this guy did well.
68. Not a bad view from our room:  
69. Such a nice Aspeny looking pool.  
70. I regularly use the term “Aspeny.”
71. Have to go to Carl’s where the 2nd floor has ANY single small item you can possibly think of.  
72. Seriously.  Anything.
73. While at the store, I went from being Slash this weekend for Halloween but ended up being a slice of bacon.  Yes.  Bacon.  Thanks for the phone a friend, Scott.
74. No visit can occur without a drop in at the J Bar and the beautiful lobby of Hotel Jerome.  
75. Had lunch at the White House Tavern.  Surprisingly abbreviated, but very effective menu items.  It basically made me not enjoy any future French Dip sandwich I will have for the rest of my life.  
76. Just an awesome walking town… 
77. The guy in the theme sits outside of Hotel Jerome…all the time.
78. Thanks.  Talk to you tomorrow or the next day.  Peace.