Had Thursday off work.  The original plan was to go to the Denver Art Musuem with Liz after the kids went to school, but India stayed home sick and that was delayed for Friday.  So instead Jake, Derek, John and I headed to Fort Collins for some nice weather skating.  We stopped at Spring Creek first.  After some warming up we all started trying 4 trick lines.  Whatever we wanted.  I think Jake got his first.  I totally forget what it was, but I know it involved a manual and possibly a feeble to fakie on the tight wavy qpipe.  John was next with a tailslide on the ledge, feeble grind on the pool coping near the coffin and maybe a treflip.  Derek was kinda doing his own thing and ripping.  Back 3s out of the potato chip were so sick.  I took a long time to get my first line.  Front board to nose manual, ollie below noping, nose manual and then a failed nollie treflip.  The nose manny took too long.  Jake had already done another line that had something to a front feeble on the tight qp in the wave.  I think John got another one too.  Something with a rock ‘n roll in the tight qp.  My second line came quicker.  Front 50 down the ledge, backside tough guy on the pool coping, front rock on the tight qp then I was gonna stop, but everyone started yelling “4th trick!!” so I went for a flatground heelflip and got it.  Cool.  Chris had met up with us and was doing super sick wallie manuals up the potato chip.  I tried just wallieing up it and after a few slams got a couple.  My last line was a long and tiring one.  Backside wallride the back of the tight qp, f/s below noping ollie (which still felt pretty good), b/s scratch grind on the pool coping, ollie onto the wave (this is a trick at this point because I was already tired), axle stall the tight qp, then kickflip out of the wave.  The kickflip was soooooo hard because I was so tired at that point.  I eventually got one and went straight to sitting down.  Whew.We hit MRKT for awhile which is always fun before moving on to North Side which surprisingly wasn’t super crowded.  At this point it was probably 60 degrees out.  So amazing.  Lots of the Fort Collins heads were there and we skated with Andy and Mike too.  John, Mike and I started out carving around the little pool section in the back.  So good for warming up the legs.  John ripped it with some feeble grinds.  Mike’s got all kinds of layback tricks.  I did my tiny little slasher and a rock ‘n roll on the rock coping.  So fun.  We skated the “mini ramp” section for a tiny bit.  Chris and Derek were skating the ledge near the front.  I started posing kickflip wallrides on the bank to steeper bank near the back.  I’ve wanted to do that trick there since that park was built.  For some reason I’ve never really tried it.  John was nearby and I hyped it up as a dream trick that I didn’t want to spend much time on, just land it.  5 tries later I landed one where I kinda just skidded off the bank.  Super hyped, but wanting a cleaner one I kept at it and a few tries later I got one that put me on top of the world.  It felt perfect.  Kickflip up, landed bolts and without lifting the front wheels up slide the front around and rolled down the bank with no tic tacs.  I have been so depressed about my skating lately, but that felt like one of the funnest tricks I’ve ever done and had me so hyped.  John and I went over to skate the ledge with the kids.  Chris was trying 500mpg front smith shoves out.  Derek was trying front 5-0 kickflips out.  John and I did front 50 180 out first try, I got front 50 shove out, and Jake joined with us in a front 5-0 race.  I think Jake and I got them around the same time.  It was cool because it looked like Derek was just trying front 5-0 with us.  Ha.  I wanted front 5-0 shove out too, but it took too long and I gave up.  Jake got a front tail first T.  Chris slammed a lot.  After a bit of cruising around John, Andy and I played a game of SKATE in the parking lot.  John pulled the nollie flip and Andy got a textbook b/s flip to give me SK, but other then that I somehow landed all the other tricks John layed down including 360 flip, fakie front shove, halfcab flip, etc.  I was happy got get fakie bigflip and heelflip too.  After that I just watched Derek go for front lip to front board up/down the mj ledge and tried nollie treflips until I eventually got one.  I tried to skate a bit more after that, but my legs were done.  John added a blunt to pivot fakie on the bank to his stellar day.Such a fun day.  We went to La Luz and ate after.   Fort Collins rules.  Best skatescene in CO.  Unfortunately the next day I would wake up with intense upper back/neck pains that prevented me from being able to do anything.  Ugh.  I guess that’s the reward for good skate days when you get old.

Another chilly night, slightly warmer then the last. Jake called me and suggested Broomfield which we haven’t been to in awhile. Sounded good to me so we rolled there. Fuzz was sick we heard so it was just Jake and I. When we arrived at the park there was only 3 other dudes there. All in flannels and beanies of course. It’s the mandatory uniform you know. Jake and I were hip of course except we didn’t realize Nikes were mandatory. All them kids had the Janoski shoe. Ugh, don’t you kids realize that Nike sucks! Later on two more dudes would show up. One decided to go against the norm with a hoodie, but of course made up for it with Nikes. So lame.Anyways, time for the shredding.  Jake and I started with a game of SKATE on the quartapotty.  Jake pink slipped me, but we both landed quite a bit of tricks.  After that we played flatground SKATE.  I took this one.  I think Jake was spelling  SKATER though because  I got him with b/s flip, varial flip, 360 flip, heelflip, fakie bigflip and f/s halfcab flip.  After that we did cruised around for awhile doing our own thing.  I saw Jake ollie the six stair a few times.  I was feeling a bit to cold for that.  I settled in to trying a line which took a long time.  f/s flip on the hump above the corner in the bowl, back 50 on the black ledge, then front 50 shove on the black ledge.  I struggled with the f/s flip for awhile.  I started sinking into that depression mode again, but stuck with it and eventually started landing them most tries.  The back 50s were almost every try, some would go into back 5-0 and I’d stick with it.  The front 50 shove took longer than it should.  But when I did get the line it felt great.  Solid f/s flip, locked into a perfect back 5-0, then front 50 shove.  Stoked.  Jake was working on a run of f/s flip on the bump too, manual the black ledge, fakie front 50 on the black ledge.  Not sure if he got the whole thing, but he did get the fakie 50 and came out fakie which he’s never done before.  Rad.  At the end I went through the typical take 100 tries just to ollie the little rail into the bank.  I don’t know why that’s so damn scary to me.  Anyways I got it, but still ended up riding into the grass.  At the very end it started snowing, but I wanted to do halfcab crooks on the little blue ledge.  I got super frustrated as the snow started making the concrete and my grip too slick.  Ugh.  Kind of a bummer to end it like that, but it was a fun session overall.

A pretty chilly January night. Probably in the mid 20s when we started, lower 20s or less when we finished. Ugh. I didn’t bother with the multiple layers and went right for a jacket. Warming up was not fun and surprisingly the park wasn’t totally empty. Collin and Sean were there ripping. Derek was already ripping too. Carleigh went to work on noseslides pretty quick on the bump to ledge and landed most of the ones I saw. I didn’t see a first try noseslide shove however. She tried them in a line with a manual on the little manny pad up top too. Derek was skating the vert bowl so we joined him. He did kickflip to fakie, but well under coping. I finally dropped in the shallow section and survived a carve. It ended up being pretty fun and I’d like to skate it more. Carleigh skated it for a bit too.  And by a bit I mean one run and one kickturn.  Ha.  Derek also did full cab, halfcab and ollie to fakie (while yelling) below vert.  Still sick though.  I kinda went into a frustration period for awhile.  There are so many things I wish I could do at that park first try just flowing around.  I never land anything though.  Other than a faster than normal noseslide down the hubba the only things I was hyped on was things I hadn’t done there before.  Horrible ollie over the perfect rounded hip in the collision course, kinda close to manualling the way to tall pier 7 replica, and at the end finally nose manualling the little manny pad.  I really am bad at skateboarding and this place really brings it out.  Derek on the other hand is really good at skateboarding and it shows at this park.  Endless lines.  Fakie flip on the gnarly stone bank, treflip fakie on the extension in the little bowl, nosegrind down the hubba, kinda close to front board b/s flip out on the flatbar, etc.  He is hilarious too. All in all I skated like crap, but left the park in a decent mood and I wasn’t too sore.

I was pretty tired after such a late night the evening before skating Fuzz’s red curb to the wee hours of the night.  Ollie and I stopped by Borders to pick up a Looney Tunes DVD he wanted to buy with his allowance then drove off with no place to skate in mind.  We ended up near Foothills and Valmont in the industrial park.  We saw a fun looking speed bump and that was enough to get us out of the car.  It had been warmer out earlier, but now it was getting colder and windy.  Not cool.  We did have fun though.  We cruised around a few buildings never skating anything too long and having fun the whole time.  Ollie had some front boardslide transfers on parking blocks.  He slid them for a bit then would stop and dance on the board for awhile before transferring over.  So sick.  He tried a few back boards and slid out laughing.  I had some ollies and kickflips over the speed bump, some poses at kickflip front board on a parking block, front lips that stuck, a really bad hurricane.  We skated this long 3 stair where Ollie rode down by manualling the top stair.  So crazy.  It was spaced just perfect so that the front wheels would barely land before going off the next stair.  I wanted to ollie to the last stair, but it was too scary for the time being and I resorted to an ollie to pivot the turned in.  We skated this hill for a little bit into slippery new asphalt that was really fun to powerslide.  Ollie hung out in this medium between curbs and was rotating on his back wheels to nose stall back and forth from one side to the other.  It was so rad.  At the end of the session Ollie did a back 180 down a 2 stair (captured by the awesome camera in my work cell phone) and I ollied from the little kicker by the rocks in the photo over the two stair.  It was harder than it looks.  Fun, mellow session.  Went home after that and watched football and napped.  Go Packers!

Saturday! It was supposed to be 58 and sunny, but when I first woke up and looked outside it was cloudy and flurrying. So lame. That kinda brought my mood down a bit. Eventually it was a little nicer out and Carleigh, Jake and I went to meet Lazer in Longmont. Only he had left Longmont by the time we got there. We pulled into Rocky Mtn Elementary and it was windy and not very warm. Ugh. I had done what every poser does to make them feel better after a session like I had the last time I skated. I setup a new board. To complete the series I had a brand new Start Choppin’ board. It felt really good. Warming up was pretty funny. We all were sucking. Carleigh had the only valid excuse having not been able to skate much lately due to her foot injury. At one point Jake bailed a kickflip, Carleigh bailed a pop shove and I bailed a halfcab. Pretty epic. Carleigh kept at a run of ollie’ing a sidewalk section then doing noseslides on the ledge. She started trying them to fakie claiming she’s never done them before and got a few of them. Jake may have gotten a front tailslide, front 50 and lots of kickflips. For some reason I started with front board pop outs and got one kinda quick. I tried a run of halfcab flip then front 50 and got that. Coming the other way I was dropping in then doing noseslides. I tried crooks too, but never got a real one. It was a quite session for sure. I tried to manual the round ledge/flagpole thing and may have done that once. I got a line I was kind of happy about dropping into the long narrow ledge, 360 flip then front 50. I managed a back 50 at one point too and tried to back it with nollie treflip, but never landed a nollie tre.Next up we went to Dave Fuller’s amazingly fun ramp.Dave skated really good.  He has a huge bag of tricks and style so it’s always fun watching him skate.  He’s good enough that Brian and him had to debate trick names.Brian killed it too.  Kind of surprising after his first run which consisted of an odd looking dropin to full on slam on the first wall.  He busted out the sugarcane in less than 5 tries which rules because he worked super hard on it (huh huh I said ‘hard on’) last time we were there and came up short.No need to debate the trick here.  Axle stall.  Even though I was having fun I wasn’t skating too well.  My basics were ok, but I had to work for anything more then that.  The front feeble on the metal coping side took forever as did the front disaster on the parking block side.Neil, Carleigh and Jake skated good too.  Neil had some long runs out of the gate which always amazes me.After the ramp session we went for a fun ride in Brian and Neil‘s new mini aka short bus.  It’s epic.  Super epic.  Click the photo for much more on Carleigh’s blog.  Can’t wait for a road trip in this one.Somehow Jack, Neil, Carleigh and I ended up at Crisis that evening to watch some skate videos.  Fuzz had had a few by the time we got there and an epic night was in store.  We drank some beers, watched Go Big Shred, Escapist and went spot lurking nearby.  After that things got crazy as Fuzz decided it was time to pop the red curb cherry.  Oh man!The grin on Fuzz’s face says it all. He was in rare form, just ask the bathroom floor.After Jack teased the curb for awhile Fuzz gave it a go. He didn’t want any ollie in action, just slappies. Funny thing is Fuzz apparently can’t do slappies. At least not several beers deep.I started giving frontside slappies a go. But this curb is totally square and not easy to slappy ..One of Fuzz’s finer quotes of the night after looking at the curb destruction. “No wonder people don’t like us skating their stuff.”And I landed one!The truck carnage was hilarious!There was pieces of paint, concrete and wax still on the truck.In between naps Neil managed his patented nose manual.Carleigh introduced the curb to slappy noseslides.And her board to the wall.Again, the grin says it all.Fuzz nose pick.Jack did a ton of tricks including a bluntslide over his wallet that he had just lost falling down.Which he did a lot ofWe went back to trying regular slappies. Jack was getting close when he unleashed the slappy willy.But then he did the real deal. Sick!And I got his back!Fuzz on the other hand.Wow, what a fun night. Thanks Fuzz. Rumor has it Fuzz stayed up and repainted the curb already. Ha. Guess we get to skate it for the first time again some time. Can’t wait. But seriously, such a fun night.Thanks for all the photos Carleigh! Go to her blog now and see many more photos.

Had a decent day at work. Fell asleep on the couch after dinner, then woke up and tossed a nerf football around with Ollie. My legs felt great. It was nice outside. I went skating around 9. Campus again. This time I decided to push faster down the little hill from where I parked. I started doing some little crack ollies then SLAM. Right on my left elbow and hip. Elbow starts bleeding again. Great, I gotta remember to bandage that up before Liz gets mad at me again for bleeding all over the sheets. Anwyays, it didn’t bum me out that much. I ended up at the little median by the rec center. I felt decent still. It’s only about two feet long so I don’t know if you can actually count what I did as “manuals”, but I did manny, manny front 180, sw 180 manny, fs 180 nose manny, nose manny and a halfcab manny. I moved on, feeling better than last night, but still a weird feeling in my head which I guess is depression. I ended up at the little ledge drop thing behind the Library I tried to ollie a bunch when I was with Fuzz, Bernie, Greg, Jake and Ollie. I almost didn’t try to ollie it, but reminded myself I’m not supposed to back away from ollies I can do anymore. I landed it. I moved on and before long was behind the student center. I decided on trying a line ending at the ledge with the low handrail next to it (as the ledge gets longer the rail gets lower). This is where it went south. I tried to start with kickflip up the curb. I couldn’t do it. When I finally did it I tried to follow it up with a no comply 180, then f/s halfcab, then ollie onto the ledge and who knows what on the handrail. I doubted that I would actually commit to anything, but I thought it would be fun trying. WRONG. I could not ollie up the stupid ledge. It’s got a downhill approach with cracks, but still. I started questioning how the hell I could suck at skateboarding so bad. Instead of leaving my dumb ass kept trying it and getting more and more bummed. I almost left the spot walking and leaving my board behind. Instead I pushed mostly to the car. I went home so depressed. Luckily I am married to an amazing woman though and she did her best to cheer me up. It may have worked, but I don’t plan on skating for a few days. I have no idea how I could possibly have skated 312 days last year. I had entertained thoughts of going for it again as I’ve only missed a few days so far. No. Never again.

Had one of those long, boring and draining days at work which left me wondering what I’m doing wasting my life away.  After a nice dinner with the family I sat on the couch and listened to Green Mind on vinyl.  It sounded great.  It was super nice out so I decided to go skate and campus seemed fun.  When I got there I set the board down and didn’t even go for that extra initial push to have a fun cruise down the hill to get things started.  I knew I was doomed at that point.  I started in the new art building where I did a couple kickflips before going to the nearby 3 stair and did a little line to it.  Fakie ollie, sw 180, ollie the 3.  Feeling a bit more warmed up I ended up at the parking lot west of the 14 which had just been repaved.  Sick!  They got rid of the jersey barrier that ruined the flat gap so I tried to ollie that.  For some reason my flat gap ollies have gone to total shit and I couldn’t do it.  I got so mad.  So mad.  My head wasn’t into skating.  Argh.  I kept at it for awhile.  Coming down the hill I started trying flatground kickflip or pop shove, a speedy manny then ollie the little double curb thing near the main street.  I actually did a couple of those and felt good for a second.  Some of the mannies were fast enough that I was a bit scared to even ollie up the curb.  Cool.  But the stupid flat gap ollie kept eluding me.  After I bailed that I would pick up my board and push at the tall ledge surrounding the parking lot and pose ollies over it.  A couple felt remotely possible which would be huge for me.  Eventually I did the whole line.  Front shove on flat, manny, ollie, turn around, ollie the flat gap.  I wasn’t even stoked.  I just picked up my board and walked to the car.  Ugh.

Wow, the first time I’ve woken up still buzzing in forever. I drank enough water over the course of the evening to not feel hungover, just tired and disoriented. We met up with Bernie and Sam who were skating the new manny pad we found the week before. I had new shoe blues. Literally, some new navy blue es square twos. Stoked. The kids had fun ollieing off the ledges and stuff. Sam nose mannied it easy. Bernie was trying fakie manuals, but didn’t get it. I was getting tech trying manuals. Ugh. It took a long time to land one. After that it took a long time to land nose mannies. Neil had shown up. He got my back with a nose manny too. Rad. I went on to get a kickflip manual pretty quick. There was some toe drag when I landed in manny, but I was too stoked to care. Neil went on to do one foot manny first try and nose mannied it from high to low. Bernie was trying halfcab flip manny 360 flip out. Never got it.We left for a gap in and out manny pad.  When we got there we found a sick kicker gap, but it needs some treebranch trimming.  Maybe next week, it could be super sick.  Anyways the gap in /out got the best of me.  I got so frustrated with just an ollie and I almost freaked out.  It sucked.  I finally landed just a stupid ollie and went right to the car and got out the filming board to get Bernie.  It worked out as Bernie got a super sick line.  Kickflip manny gap out then ollie a big pile of snow.  Neat.  Sam and Neil ollie in/out several times.Bernie and Sam left.  The rest of us went to the two stair area, but got booted quickly.  Next up was the bird bank.  I was tired and didn’t really do much.  The kids had a blast and cruised around the area.  Ollie had a couple cool body varials on the bank.  We left shortly as Sam was uttering “I’m hungry can we go now?” about every 5 seconds.  Not the best day, but considering last nights activities it went pretty well.

It was supposed to be 55 degrees, sunny and warm. It wasn’t. Not until right before the sun went down. TF was going to the Lafayette park, but Liz was busy bringing India to her many social gatherings and I was with Ollie. I actually tried to push Ollie to go there, but he’s heard me complain about how crowded it gets and he’s pretty anti crowded parks like me. And besides, it was a Saturday which i don’t like spending at a skatepark. Later that evening Neil told me it was even too crowded for his taste. Wow. Anyways Ollie was wanting to wait for one of his friends to come over to skate, but I had enough of being inside and talked him into going to Southern Hills while we wait. The main bench area was dry, but totally covered in sand. Definitely one of the worst aspects of street skating in the winter even when the weather is nice. So we ended up skating this weird bank to curb. By weird I mean horrible. The approach was either rocks or cracks. But we had fun. Ollie did rock ‘n rolls on it and would go down the sidewalk a ways and dive into the grass. Kids rule. I tried a line of a manny on a horrible crack ridden manny pad, back 50 the bank to curb, then ollie off a little kicker. I never got all 3 in one line, but we didn’t stay too long. We went to the west side of southern hills and it turns out there is a perfect double sided ledge. I boardslid it into some water. We ollied some snow piles, then took off.We weren’t home, but for a few minutes before Ollie’s buddy Liam showed up.  We left and went to a mellow banked loading dock spot around Araphoe  & 35th.  I was still pretty grumpy, unmotivated and very sore.  I managed a lame line.  Ollie a little flat gap, flat ground kickflip (since I can’t do any other tricks moving faster than 2mph), ollie into one of the banks, front 180 nose manny.  Ollie and Liam were kinda just being silly.  I tried to boardslide a flatbar, but didn’t get to as the kids went back around the corner and I felt like I should keep my eye on them.  They were cruising down the long loading dock.  I ollied onto it, then out of it.  As bad as I was skating I was kinda happy to not have too many problems ollieing the taller part.Then we went to this spot.  Ollie and Liam skated for awhile before just being funny guys and filming each other with Ollie’s camera.  I had done a line of kickflip over a tiny pile of snow, ollie a small snow pile, ollie up the stage then front 180 off the taller part.  I got the line, but the hardest thing was ollieing up onto it since the asphalt is bad and there is a big crack right where I land.  After a bit I started trying to ollie the 2 stair rail.  Turns out Ollie filmed it shaky cam style.  You can click the image for the video.  It’s very embarrassing.  I look so old, fat, slow and unnatural it’s insane.   I get really depressed watching that clip.  I probably shouldn’t have uploaded it, but you can tell I was kinda hyped to ollie the rail. And since my goal this year is to learn to ollie hopefully I can look back and laugh at this one.   Ollie’s angle doesn’t really show it, but I did go over it and yes, it’s only the second time I’ve ollied a rail.  Before leaving I did a few tricks into the narrow downhill sidewalk that flows into the picnic tables.  I ended with an ollie up the curb to real quick kickflip into the downhill.  It was bad, but I was hyped and I followed it with a little front board jib on a picnic table bench.I went home and was so sore it’s insane.  I could barely walk.  I guess I should start skating new shoes as mine are dead.  That night TF went off and we raged to celebrate John and Fuzz’s birthdays.Click the photo for more photos and the run down from Carleigh.  It was an amazingly fun night.  Lots and lots of laughs, beer, good music and friends.  Happy Birthday dudes.

A balmy night in the thirties compared to the frigid nights below zero we’ve experienced recently. Jason and I met Fuzz, Neil and Brian and Crisis. After some conversing and bidness we rolled to yellow curbs.  After some initial laps around the place I played phone directions for Dave to meet us and missed out on some round robin blunts on a parking block.  I kinda just started skating around the whole place and everyone else was having fun in one area. I guess I was being the Forrest Edwards of the group. You can’t get paid doing blunt pivots on a parking block. I still can’t nose manual at that spot for some dumb reason. Dave showed up with a friends old board. It’s funny because on the way to Broomfield Jason and I were talking about his SF trip and how he had to borrow a friends board and he hated it.  Anyways during the warm up phase I was kinda hyped on a couple things.  Little front tailslide on a curb, halfcab flips were working, and everyone seemed to be having a blast.Then it seemed everyone was skating the longer manual pad in the back corner and the slappy curb against the entrance.  It’s soooo good for slappies.  I think everyone did some good ones.  Neil had some sick nose mannies and tried doing pop shove nose manny, but can’t quite commit to leaning forward enough.  Brian was actually trying manuals!  He also did a sick front 180 fakie 50 and came out fakie.  Brian also made fun of me for looking to serious when I skate.  He’s right though.  Even when I’m having a blast (which I was) I don’t show much emotion.  I think it’s because no matter what I do I know it’s not very “good”.  But whatever, I should smile more.  But not in a weird open mouth cock eyed smirk like Aaron Suski.  Ha.  Jason had a lot of great slams.  He was having trouble keeping his feet under him and went down tumbling a lot.  He had some good slappy back tails and manuals.  Dave had some rad curb moves.  I don’t even remember some of the crazier ones.  I was having a great time, enjoying not being as sore as last year forcing myself to skate everyday.  I tried a bunch of kickflip manuals and never got one.  I also tried a bunch of kickflip front 50 and kick back tails of which I also failed.  Although the kick front 50s were close and I would land on it, but on the sidewalk.  Doh.  Actually almost got one in a run I would have been so hyped on.  Kickflip up the curb, back 180 over a puddle, halfcab flip, kickflip miss the front 50 by about an inch.  Doh.  I think my favorite thing at yellow curbs is doing back 50s on the corner.  Anyways, Neil started chilling and it was mostly a trick up, trick off the manny pad in the corner.  Fuzz was going off.  Halfcab manual, front 180 up then switch front shove off, front 180 up, fakie flip off, halfcab flip off, kickflip up over the puddle with 360 flip off, 360 flip over the puddle, etc.  Killing it.  Jason got front 180 up, sw back 180 the puddle, some funny ass halfcab attempts over the puddle, back 180 the puddle.  Dave got front 180 up and sw ollie and sw 180 the puddle.  I had gotten kickflip up, kickflip off over the puddle, nollie front shove up then front shove off.  I was pretty hyped on how often I would actually land the nollie shove up, but not so hyped that the front shove off was actually difficult for some reason.  I had got gotten a couple fakie bigspins up the curb and wanted to pop shove the puddle, but the session got cut short.  Fuzz was almost getting switch front 360s off when security rolled up and gave us the boot.  He yelled “IDs!” at us.  I knew what he meant, but it sounded like “AT EASE!” so I told him I was.  He took our names which sucks because that parking garage is fun.  Oh well it was a super fun night.