Recon-nect

Yo, how's it? Great on this end. Just the usual navigating adulthood and keeping my view askew and hella true. Well, it sounded good when I originally said it...in my head. So, I've just been working my culo off and getting the yard winterized here and there to be ready when the snow falls here in a few weeks. It's exciting to think that we'll be riding and sliding before too long. I have to say I haven't been working too much in the studio other than the occasional sketch here and or there the keep the rust from fully forming. I also started going through my PSIA notes from the tech manual and refreshing my mental files on the beginnings of the PSIA as well as their fundamentals. I did also make a new purchase this season. I bought some new K2 Recon boots to match my Mindbenders. These puppies are about half as heavy as my Dalbellos and much stiffer. Which translates a couple of different things, but my most anticipated aspect is going to be the fused spine in the back. This spine melds the cuff and the boot and increases the response time in carving. Here is a shot of the K2 Recons I picked up this season...

I also had mentioned our 'gear room'. This room has been a lot of things. First it was our art studio, then the gym, then Kat's dressing room, and now, the practical gods of logic prevail and have given us the gift of practical space management! Anyway, it's not done, I still need to mount the ski/snowboard...uh,...mounts? and the bars that will hold our jackets and pants. It is coming along, and as I said before it's nice to have a place to get ready and 'un'ready.

I know the lighting on this shot seems off, but I like it. It looks old like you might not even get internet in this room! I've read in a couple of articles that (at least around here) it's gunna be another heavy winter. So we could see a ton of pow pow, a longer season, or a little of both would be nice. I'll tell ya I can't believe I'm about to turn 50...Jesus, where did time go? I suppose it doesn't really matter, just to understand that it will pass you by if you fail to recognize what's real in this life. At least for me it has always been about trying to be a better person. It's hard to be better when you are drunk all the time making decisions that benefit you about as much as a mosquito bite. I don't really talk about it much, because I don't wanna seem like the 'let me save you' type. It's true, I'm going on my 4th year of no alcohol, and It was a great decision for us. What started out as an'Oc-Sober' type thing blossomed into a great health move. Listen to me, ranting when I claim not to be that guy. I guess I just want you to know where I'm coming from, that's all. I do appreciate anyone who takes the time to read my spillings. I have realized many things in this life, some too late, some too early...never really at the right time, but lessons wouldn't always be lessons if they were easy. The biggest thing I have realized in the last 5 years is; I miss humans. I miss real interaction and a world void of screens that lie to us constantly in a bid to gain our money, or likes, or views. I suppose TV and movies has always been about that but the art has changed..it's become flacid and pressed through an assembly line. I am going to leave on this note; I was listening to Tom Petty radio on XM the other day and Tom was on talking about technology and the music industry. The host claimed that with the invention of studio application and new editing software one could make records better. Tom took a second and said "Actually, you can make them faster...not better. Any album that pre-dates these new programs that is considered a great album is just that, and the only technology it needed were its members and their insruments." RIP Tom Petty