Colorado Mike

Very well said. I think "sports" like baseball, golf, and auto racing blow, but that's just me. Plenty of other people like them, and that's cool. To each his own.

Huge game! I'll be watching. Revenge time on the field.

Welcome, man.

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I was a little surpised (and bummed) that The Offspring, coming on at 4:45, only played until 5:20. In fact, the only act I saw that played longer than 30-35 minutes was My Chemical Romance, who played about 40 minutes, probably because they were the last one of the night.

I am going to the Warped Tour tomorrow at Mile High here in Denver. There are 81 bands playing on four stages. The main reason I'll be there is to see The Offspring. I assume they'll be one of if not the last band to play on the main stage, but so far I have not been able to find any kind of schedule. Can someone who has been to another venue this year give me some kind of idea when the whole thing ended, and/or the approximate time The Offspring played? The music starts at noon, but if this thing runs until 11:00pm or later I'd rather not be there all day and all night. Any other specific bands you think I should be sure to catch? Thanks in advance.

Here is a great story about Kelly's partner Alec and his family, sent to me by my Father in Law in Texas. I watched this show from week 1 and didn't realized until I got this email last week that I had met him a few times and kicked a soccer ball around with him back when he was 12 years old: .... we got an absolutely delightful surprise call... from San Francisco.... and from our past. A really good Horatio Alger tale. Some of you know the beginning of the story about 15 years ago when I got a call at Omni Elevator where I was working with our son-in-law. It was from a local Doc that said he was sponsoring an immigrant Jewish family (boys Genia 10 & Alec 12) that just arrived from the Soviet Union via Isreal! He said Anatoly was an engineer with 11 years experience in elevators and he was looking for a job for him. Omni hired him but, his English was so poor he could hardly communicate anything... and certainly not in the technical elevator stuff. So, he went to work in an electric motor repair shop as a minimum wage laborer. They lived here for about two years and we helped them furnish their appartment since they came with only their clothes and no money. They are VERY talented people. Natasha was a ballerina when younger and a superb seamstress... and Anatoly is also a classical pianist. She sewed costumes for the local theater and at night he played piano in the lobby of a downtown hotel. After a couple of years their Russian friends in San Francisco convinced them to move there for more opportunity. They left in a VERY old Datsun and we gave them a credit card for emergencies. We never doubted they would return it... and, if they used it they would repay us. In SF they did many, many, things to try to get ahead. Anatoly drove a cab for a while and many other things. Natasha made costumes for th SF Ballet, cleaned houses, etc. They tried a jewelry store and a few other things. Each time moving up a bit and finally Anatoly got his Professional Engineer license in CA. After about five years, Anatoly was working for Wells Fargo Bank in their computer operation. And, Natasha had started a ballroom dance school. The boys were good students in school and GREAT dance students. By the time they were in their late teens they were competing nationally. Alec went to the world competition in England at about 19. Got an email from Anatoly about 7 or 8 years ago and he said they finally bought a home. First thing I thought of was something 50 miles from SF where they could afford it. But, the next sentence said they got one with an ocean view for only $450,000!!!! Blew me away... and sooo pleased for them. We had exchanged emails but not talked in a few years till tonight. Anatoly called to tell us Alec is on ABC's "Dancing With The Stars" with his celebrity partner actress Kelly Monaco, star of ABC's General Hospital. Each professional dancer teaches their celebrity partner all the dances and they compete with other dance professionals partnered with other "stars". They eliminate one couple each week and Alec and Kelly are now one of two finalist couples. They will compete next Wed about 7:00PM or 8:00PM Central and we will be watching! If you are interested you can see some video clips on this ABC web site. Also, get the exact time and see Alec's bio... http://abc.go.com/primetime/dancing/bios/alec_mazo.html Besides Alec's pro carreer in movies and TV, Genia is studying to be a lawyer, and Natasha runs the HUGE dance school they started. Anatoly still works for Wells Fargo... but, now he manages 150 people!!! He said we MUST come to visit them but, if we do, we must stay with them. They now have a $2,500,000 home! Thought you might be interested in that little story of some poor Russian Jewish immigrants!!!. Pretty amazing what hard work can do for ANYONE in America! More of us born with this opportunity should take advantage of it like they did!!!

U.B. did that exact same thing to me years ago. I used to ride my motorcycle to classes at the Main St. campus and parked my bike along with many others in this one paved area between a campus road and the sidewalk. After a couple years of doing this, I came out from class one day to find a new "No Parking" sign and every one of us had a ticket on our seat. These were real City of Buffalo tickets so you couldn't really just ignore them. I went to the head of Campus Security to complain and he basically told me "Too F'ing Bad" and I ended up having to pay it.

Sorry about the blank post, all. I am on a couple of rock radio stations listeners lists as well as the promoter House of Blues and therefore get the occasional email offering me two for the price of one tickets. Even though the amphitheatre/box office is a 2 minute walk across the street from my office one can only get the deal on-line through Ticketmaster. When doing one of these it is common for me to pay more for all thee BS charges than I did for the tickets.

Yes, but keep in mind we willing be picking last in the first round

I gotta agree that this list is way off. I can see why putting together such a list is not an easy thing to do, but come on, Joan Jett is listed but not guys like Petrucci, Steve Vai or Buck Darma from BOC? I must agree to with whoever commented on Richie Blackmore being too low - he should be much higher.

I'll look for it. That was my favorite play of the season last year.

Cool. I have lived in Littleton/Centennial for almost 6 years now and never knew about this place. I will second whoever mentioned Red Rocks, as it is even worth going to (for free) in the daytime just to check it out. I don't know if they were mentioned, but Garden of the Gods and Cave of the Winds down in Co Springs are both worth the time. I will also agree with the person who suggested Buffalo Bills Grave/Lookout Mountain. They are just at the edge of Golden so you don't have to go far into the mountains and get a great overlook down onto Golden and the metro area. Then, hit the Coors Brewery for a free tour nearby. Best part is the free samples at the end - just avoid the regular Coors/Coors Light :-) And yes, a Rockies game is indeed worth it just for the stadium itself. I like sitting up in right field for an evening game. You have the skyscrapers to your left and the mountains out to your right. The field is in Lodo so you hit some good pubs right after.

I am not at all surprised at this. I meant to look this up myself because i was semi-expecting it, as this seems to become common practice with the Bills schedule. Just like the Sabres seem to get more back to back games with the second one on the road than any other NHL team. I am not saying I believe in conspiracy theories, but it does make one wonder what's up with that.

W Sep 11 Houston W Sep 18 @Tampa Bay W Sep 25 Atlanta L Oct 2 @New Orleans W Oct 9 Miami W Oct 16 N.Y. Jets L Oct 23 @Oakland L Oct 30 @New England Week 9 BYE W Nov 13 Kansas City L Nov 20 @San Diego W Nov 27 Carolina W Dec 4 @Miami W Dec 11 New England W Dec 17 Denver L Dec 24 @Cincinnati W Jan 1 @N.Y. Jets

Why thank you, and same to you! It's funny, here at work they put a happy birthday sign up on the lobby marquis for employee birthdays, and every single year, including this one, they forget mine. At least I can count on my TBD family.

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i love that one

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It was kind of artsy and weird, but I'd liked it. Kind of the opposite of a chick flick, so unless your wife or GF likes tons of violence and T&A, see it by yourself or with the guys.

I don't, but I'll try to remember to ask my boys at work tomorrow and let you know.

Good one!

I live in the area, but do not ski. Howver, I can still tell you that having lived around here for over 5 years, the vast majority of the many folks I know around here who do ski regularly prefer Copper Mountain. From what I hear, Copper is reasonably priced, has good, varied runs, fewer out of town skiiers who don't know what they are doing, etc. You probably can't go wrong, as I often hear locals going to pretty much all of them, but again, I consistently hear a preference for Copper.

lol. Spot on. You nailed it.