Day 134: Baked Potatoes

     Baked potatoes are definitely the lazy man's go-to recipe. I looked up a couple of videos on how to bake and this is what they said:

• Poke holes in potato
• place in hot oven
• sit on your ass for an hour
• soak in butter and ranch dressing
• eat

     So I did exactly that. I watched a couple episodes of Archer while my dinner cooked. Then I whipped up a batch of teriyaki rice and chowed down on this delicious challenge.

Day 133: Urine Test/ Shoot A Gun

     Today was a day of all days. I wish I did so many things everyday.
This is the condensed version of what I did: I got two hours of sleep and then woke up at 6 A.M. so I could get a ride to Boulder from Mouse. We enjoyed a couple of Chi Tea Lattes as we drove. He dropped me off at the Boulder skatepark and he left for work. It was just me, my skateboard, and my bike. I skated there for about two hours before heading to the Target there for my job interview. I changed into some more professional looking clothes and spent the next half hour interviewing for a cashiering job (which I got). They then said that I needed to take a drug test before I could start working. So I biked to this place about 5 miles away that studies cups of pee and decide whether or not that person has been on drugs. I peed in a cup and then some, gave it to the lady and went on my way. Heres a couple of pics that I snuck from the pee place.

     Then I met up with my friend Alex who lives in Boulder. We met up at the skatepark and skated there for a couple more hours before riding to his house. There we skated his box for a while as his room mate sold a vespa. Then we biked to the Lafayette skatepark (which is about 16 miles away) and we skated there for a couple hours. Some tricks were landed and some shit was eaten. Then we got a ride back by one of Alex's friends and his truck. Then we drove up one of the mountains of Boulder to shoot some guns. It was a 12 gauge shot gun that had a lot of kick to it. We shot some skateboards and some flying clay pigeons and I actually hit a couple of them. Then we got pulled over on the way back for passing on the shoulder of a highway. Then I biked to the Mac-shack (23 miles) in the dark and almost passed out on the way because I was so tired. I started seeing mirages and stopped at a Safeway to get a couple donuts to keep me going. I made it there and Mouse, Mac, Karen and I drove to Walmart to get a pizza and cookie dough. We watched the Hangover while the food cooked. I stayed long enough to get a couple slices and a couple cookies and then I biked home where I took a much needed shower and then passed out in my bed. So much happened, but the moral of this blog is that my new thing of the day would be that I had never taken a pee test, and I had never shot a gun before. Both of those things were activities that I had no intention of trying today. They kind of just fell into my lap. But it was a lot of fun. Today was a great day. 

I never know what I'm doing

Day 132: Tex Mex Bean Dip

    This stuff was so delicious...and veggie friendly. I made bean dip at Mouse's and Mac's place (I like to refer to it as either the Mac-shack, or the Mouse-pad). The dip was a layered bowl of refried beans, guacamole, a mayo and taco seasoning mix paste, cheese, tomatoes, and green onions. It was pretty cheap to make, it was really tasty, and it filled me up goooooooood. I'm totally going to be showcasing my culinary skills with this piece at the next pot-luck.

Day 131: Garden Burger

     Its crappy outside today. It's also Mouse's birthday and so to celebrate we took cover in a Ruby Tuesday's. It was me, Mac, Mouse, and his girl friend Karen enjoying a delicious lunch and celebrating Mouse's first 20 years. As it turns out, I'm the odd man out when it comes to consuming meat. Mouse, Mac and Karen are all vegetarians and were planning on getting the "garden burger". I guess its like a high quality Boca burger. I've had Boca burgers before and I thought they tasted a little funny and so I decided that (because I was sore from the bike ride challenge and I didn't feel like doing anything else) I would count this garden burger as my new thing. It was crappy weather, and it was a crappy challenge, how fitting. I ended up getting the Hawaiian Garden Burger which means that it had cooked pineapples on it. The three others also got garden burgers and we enjoyed our meal without killing a cow like civilized beings. It was actually really really delicious. The pineapple was great and the burger itself was definitely comparable to a normal burger.

Day 130: Take An All Day Bike Trip

     This is something that I've been wanting to do for quite some time (about 2 years). It was one of the funnest challenges so far and instead of me blabbering uncontrollably, I'm gonna just show some pictures from the trip and keep the blabbering to a minimum.
Heres the hard facts:

its about 24 miles from my house to the city of Boulder  

It took us about 2.5 hours to bike one way

We biked both ways

We biked all around Boulder during our visit

So we biked around 5 hours and over 50 miles for this challenge

I hope I don't forget this

I like it

Day 129: School

     I don't know if you guys remember, but Day 19 was my first day at Front Range Community College. I counted it as a challenge because I honestly wouldn't be in college without this project. A lot of my friends think that this project is a stupid waste of time. I get a lot of flag for putting myself in some of these situations (the waxing and the hot wing challenges are great examples). I didn't start this project just because I wanted to do a new thing every day. I started this because I wanted to put myself out there, I wanted to experience as much as I could. It didn't matter if it was the good or the bad or the ugly, I wanted to start experiencing my life, one day at a time. This whole thing is about improving myself and trying anything. Thats why I have devoted so much time and effort into this thing, I just want to see what life has to offer. Now I can say that I have experienced what completing a semester of college feels like, It feels pretty damn good. I got all B's which is alright, hopefully I'll get some A's next semester.

Day 19: College: http://aimforeclouds.blogspot.com/2011/01/day-19-college.html

Day 128: Police

     I've had my fair share of run-ins with the police with skateboarding and my terrible driving, but I had yet to call the police. Their duties are to protect and serve, and so far all I let them do was give me tickets and put me in handcuffs that one time for skating downtown (and then give me a ticket). Thats why, one day 128, I called the police. I did it cause I was at Kevin's house celebrating David's birthday and we kept hearing screams and yelling from the neighbors apartment. We all went quiet and listened to what was going on. There was a man sitting on the hood of a car that was parked in the lot in-front of the townhouse. He was mumbling angrily to himself and looked to be pretty drunk. He was wobbling around and cursing under his breath. A woman was standing with the front door half open yelling at him. She was saying a something that went a little like this "I fucking hate you, you piece of shit". I think that its safe to assume that these two are a husband and wife that don't have the best of relationships. The man suddenly stood up and charged at the woman and they took their commotion inside. thats where more screaming took place. We were all freaked out and didn't know what to do. We quietly talked it over on the back porch. The screaming stopped and and the husband stumbled onto his porch and began peeing off of it onto the bottom story of the town-home. That was pretty uncomfortable to say the least. As he urinated, I dialed 911, went inside, and told the lady what was going on. They sent an officer out  and the screaming stopped for the rest of the night. The strangest part of the whole incident was when the lady that was violently screaming about a half hour before asked us to quite down. She said that the police came to her door and she thought that the police went to the wrong address. She thought that the cop was trying to find us to talk to us about a noise complaint. I guess she didn't remember that she was screaming her head off just a half an hour before.