Sorry about the lack of posts last week and no, we have not stopped doing the weekly questions. Its just been a crazy 2 weeks.
SnowBoarding
Last week I took my family 12,500 feet above sea level and stayed in a ranch about half way up Copper Mountain in Colorado. I never intended to Ski (bad experiences), I thought I would just watch and take pics of my 4 year old in Ski School.
At the last minute on the first day I decided I was going to try to snow board.
I have taken surfing lessons, wake boarded, and grew up skateboarding so I thought maybe snowboarding would be a better fit.
It was… I felt way more natural on a snowboard. The only thing a little hard to get used to was putting a lot of my weight on my front foot.
By the end of the day (6 hours of private lessons) I was turning pretty good, doing heel side to toe side, and even learned some freestyle stuff like manuals and ollie (which came easy from my skate board past) Felt great.
Now the next day my ass hurt like I had been raped by a rhino. But I *thought* I was ok otherwise. Outside our window was the sawmill ski lift and I was watching snowboarders and thought I would suit up and get after it.
*MISTAKE*
Going heelside or toeside was unbearable. My muscles were gone.
Fast forward 4 days later I think I had some altitude sickness or something. I just felt like complete crap. No energy to do anything, banging headache, and exhausted.
GoDaddy Fail.
While in the mountains I discovered Godaddy disabled one of my domains with no warning. Then held it hostage. Sucked cause I was running a lot of ppc through it so it cost me probably 5k-10k. But I always believe adversity is opportunity and this showed me that I really can’t afford to continue to use Godaddy as my registrar.
I am currently moving my entire portfolio to Moniker.
Got home late last Friday night. Long day of traveling. Especially with our kid.
Losing $1400 + credit cards + id then getting it back
Saturday morning was my mother-in-laws birthday so we were traveling about 80 miles to spend the day with her. Half way there our kids had to goto the bathroom so we pulled into a Subway. While inside my wife wanted to get some snacks for the kids so I handed her my money clip while I took the kids to the bathroom then back out to the car.
Once we got to Omaha, my wife realized she did not have my money clip. We searched the car for about 30 minutes… then drove back 60 miles to the Subway shop. My wife went inside and talked to the employees and even called the manager to see if they could pull the security tape. The manager said she would first thing Monday.
I had about 1400 in cash (I was going to vegas on Tuesday (tomorrow)), my amex black card, and my id in that money clip.
I wasn’t so concerned about the cash but since I was leaving in 2 days for Vegas this was really going to suck. I would have to get my drivers licensee and figure out how to get a new amex by the time I went to vegas cause I booked everything through the centurion finer resorts and hotels and needed the card at checkin.
Getting the amex overnighted to my hotel was not a big deal.
Just after I had everything canceled I got several phone calls from a lady who said she wanted to return my money clip. She said a friend of a friend found it in the parking lot but they lived far away so gave it to her to return. The story was really strange but whatever I was really happy.
I ended up meeting up with another party who didn’t know much about the person who found it. I offered him a cash reward but he refused to take money.
On the way home I stopped at a gas station to fill up and pick up some sodas. They were taking donations to the march of dimes and giving away free 20oz pops to anyone who donated $5. Now I was in a really giving mood cause I just had my money returned so I donated $500. They about shit and handed me a stack of those foot things to fill out. I told them no worries.
When I got home I called the police to tell them that the money clip had been returned to me. The police were very suspicious and asked me a lot of questions. They said they were not dropping the case.
To be honest I don’t really care if it was stolen. In the end it was returned. I was a kid once and did really really really dumb things but was very lucky that even when I did get busted people understood and let me off easy.
What a week
SnowBoarding
Last week I took my family 12,500 feet above sea level and stayed in a ranch about half way up Copper Mountain in Colorado. I never intended to Ski (bad experiences), I thought I would just watch and take pics of my 4 year old in Ski School.
At the last minute on the first day I decided I was going to try to snow board.
I have taken surfing lessons, wake boarded, and grew up skateboarding so I thought maybe snowboarding would be a better fit.
It was… I felt way more natural on a snowboard. The only thing a little hard to get used to was putting a lot of my weight on my front foot.
By the end of the day (6 hours of private lessons) I was turning pretty good, doing heel side to toe side, and even learned some freestyle stuff like manuals and ollie (which came easy from my skate board past) Felt great.
Now the next day my ass hurt like I had been raped by a rhino. But I *thought* I was ok otherwise. Outside our window was the sawmill ski lift and I was watching snowboarders and thought I would suit up and get after it.
*MISTAKE*
Going heelside or toeside was unbearable. My muscles were gone.
Fast forward 4 days later I think I had some altitude sickness or something. I just felt like complete crap. No energy to do anything, banging headache, and exhausted.
GoDaddy Fail.
While in the mountains I discovered Godaddy disabled one of my domains with no warning. Then held it hostage. Sucked cause I was running a lot of ppc through it so it cost me probably 5k-10k. But I always believe adversity is opportunity and this showed me that I really can’t afford to continue to use Godaddy as my registrar.
I am currently moving my entire portfolio to Moniker.
Got home late last Friday night. Long day of traveling. Especially with our kid.
Losing $1400 + credit cards + id then getting it back
Saturday morning was my mother-in-laws birthday so we were traveling about 80 miles to spend the day with her. Half way there our kids had to goto the bathroom so we pulled into a Subway. While inside my wife wanted to get some snacks for the kids so I handed her my money clip while I took the kids to the bathroom then back out to the car.
Once we got to Omaha, my wife realized she did not have my money clip. We searched the car for about 30 minutes… then drove back 60 miles to the Subway shop. My wife went inside and talked to the employees and even called the manager to see if they could pull the security tape. The manager said she would first thing Monday.
I had about 1400 in cash (I was going to vegas on Tuesday (tomorrow)), my amex black card, and my id in that money clip.
I wasn’t so concerned about the cash but since I was leaving in 2 days for Vegas this was really going to suck. I would have to get my drivers licensee and figure out how to get a new amex by the time I went to vegas cause I booked everything through the centurion finer resorts and hotels and needed the card at checkin.
Getting the amex overnighted to my hotel was not a big deal.
Just after I had everything canceled I got several phone calls from a lady who said she wanted to return my money clip. She said a friend of a friend found it in the parking lot but they lived far away so gave it to her to return. The story was really strange but whatever I was really happy.
I ended up meeting up with another party who didn’t know much about the person who found it. I offered him a cash reward but he refused to take money.
On the way home I stopped at a gas station to fill up and pick up some sodas. They were taking donations to the march of dimes and giving away free 20oz pops to anyone who donated $5. Now I was in a really giving mood cause I just had my money returned so I donated $500. They about shit and handed me a stack of those foot things to fill out. I told them no worries.
When I got home I called the police to tell them that the money clip had been returned to me. The police were very suspicious and asked me a lot of questions. They said they were not dropping the case.
To be honest I don’t really care if it was stolen. In the end it was returned. I was a kid once and did really really really dumb things but was very lucky that even when I did get busted people understood and let me off easy.
What a week
ليست هناك تعليقات:
إرسال تعليق