This error message came up earlier today at my corpo job:SQL0407N  Assignment of a NULL value to a NOT NULL column “TBSPACEID=2, TABLEID=8, COLNO=2” is not allowed.  SQLSTATE=23502Pretty rad huh?  That’s pretty much the reason why Null is called Null right there.

and the spots look super fun.

Insanely tired and sore from a long day of skating on Saturday followed by late night beer drinking Chief and I set off for some downtown Boulder action.  We met up with Nate and Jake at St Julien and got things rolling.  I didn’t expect much of myself, but when Chief is in town you can’t be lazy.St Julien was a fun warmup.  Chief nailed some no complys over the curb thing and we cruised it for awhile.  I put together a little run with a front 50, ollie a small box, then no comply 270 back tail the ledge.Next up we hit the rock parking garage area with the rock ride, manual pad, and other stuff.  We were there for awhile and it was fun.  I got a run with a kickflip up the curb, manual then varial flip into the bank.  The kickflip up the curb was fun because it was into the curb cut so it felt kinda neat.  We all did some more tricks into the bank.  Chief got a fast as lighting pop shove, kickflip and no comply.  Maybe more.  Nate did a switch flip to raise the tech gnar factor.  Jake may have just recently learned kickflips, but he put that down.  I got a frontside halfcab flip after about 50 tries and a first try fakie bigflip.From there Jake bailed out and the three of us hit the little Wells Fargo banks for my favorite part of the evening.  I started off sucking but got lucky on a back 5-0 fakie and a horrible and lucky first try back hurricane.  After that I just started trying new stuff and somehow landed them.  I got a first try back nosegrind.  Probably the best back nosegrind I’ve ever done.  I got a bluntside to pivot kind of too and a front 180 nosegrind 180.  Although I didn’t grind it.  Before leaving I got my first ever back tail on tranny.  HYPED!  Nate and Chief were up in the session too.  Nate perfected the back 5-0 to fakie and Chief drilled out a bunch of alley oop fakie 50s.  So sick.  Pretty fun night for how tired I was.

Man, I don’t even know where to start on this one, so many awesome things aligned for this Saturday.  First, it was sunny.  It’s seriously been a minute since we’ve had a sunny Saturday.  Next the lineup for the crew was pretty out of this world.  Chris Jones was in town with Kit to do some photo essay on how skateboarding keeps you young and wanted to take photos of me all day.  Next up my homie Chief was coming to town who I haven’t seen in a couple years.  Hyped!  And in other rare appearances GABE (who’s name will be all caps throughout this update since he states that he reads these updates daily) was gonna be in town for one day too.  Sick!Things got startes with a Rampy sesh with Chris, Kit, Chief and I.  A good warmup that got the sweat flowing.  After playing in the street we headed to a new pool near Boulder we had heard about.  The crew at this point was John, Neil, Rob, Chris, Kit, Chief, Jason and me.  Rolling deep, and it would get deeper.So I’ve never skated a realy legit backyard pool before.  We had to bail it out and everything.  Super fun.  The whole thing was fun.  We skated it for a couple hours.  The shallow is wide with two main corners that are really tight and a deepend with even tighter corners.  While the deep end dried up we mostly just carved the shallow corners.  Super fun.  Neils of Fire straight killed it with lots of carves over akward lights and stuff.  Chief was having a blast.  Jason killed the shallow carves.  Chris was shredding the whole time too and he ended up getting a few bangers.  Boneless in the deep end, front rock in the deep and ollied into the waterfall.  So sick.We left to go to a game of SKATE at the boulder park, but were too late.  Next up was the Neil ledges with an even larger crew.  We added Fuzz, Lazer, Bernie, GABE, Jake, Nate and Squeeks to the crew.  Maybe even more.  I didn’t really skate well and no one was super into the ledges.  We played a couple large game of SKATE in which I was quickly eliminated.  I got a 3 flip first try though so I can’t really complain much.  Chief and Bernie had to take off and then we all went to Rock Creek.  Some serious shredding went down there by people other than me.  It’s pathetic bad I am at skating anything other than rampy.  It was fun though and I can’t even begin to document all the ripping that Chris, Fuzz, GABE, Lazer, Jason, Squeeks and John laid down.  I ended my Rock Creek time by trying boardslide to feeble attempts with Nate on the flat bar.  I came close to a couple and Nate landed it.Exhausted beyond belief we had to skate Rampy for a minute because GABE has wanted to skate it forever.  It was Just GABE, Kit, John, Chris and I.  GABE went off and did so many of his rad tricks.  All his cool rock fakie willy things.  What are they called?  So many tricks.  My favorite was the blunt to staple gun.  Day over.  Finally.  Beer drinking at Lazer’s went down.  Fun fun fun day.

Was gonna hopefully go meet up with Bernie and crew at the Longmont park later on, but it looked like rain.  Stopped at Valmont for a minute and it was wet.  Skated across the street and it was dry.  Skated around for a bit trying to do a bunch of ollies and sucked as much as humanly possible.  I’m not sure why I can’t even ollie these days but it was horrible horrible horrible.  A nearby flash of lighting scared me enough to bolt to red curbs and continue sucking.  But the good thing was I now had a fresh sheet of grip tape so I knew that at any minute I could just focus my board and be done.  I didn’t last long.

I get a lot of jokes emailed throughout the day.   Most are lame.   This one though, I laughed. Even Liz laughed so it must be decent.How a good husband should be…..Jack wakes up with a huge hangover after attending his company’s Christmas Party.   Jack is not normally a drinker, but the drinks didn’t taste like alcohol at all.   He didn’t even remember how he got home from the party.   As bad as he was feeling, he wondered if he did something wrong.  Jack had to force himself to open his eyes, and the first thing he sees is a couple of aspirins next to a glass of water on the side table.   And, next to them, a single red rose.   Jack sits up and sees his clothing in front of him, all clean and pressed.   He looks around the room and sees that it is in perfect order, spotlessly clean.   So is the rest of the house.   He takes the aspirins, cringes when he sees a huge black eye staring back at him in the bathroom mirror.   Then he notices a note hanging on the corner of the mirror written in red with little hearts on it and a kiss mark from his wife in lipstick:”Honey, breakfast is on the stove, I left early to get groceries to make you your favorite dinner tonight.   I love you, darling! Love, Jillian”  He stumbles to the kitchen and sure enough, there is hot breakfast, steaming hot coffee and the morning newspaper.   His son is also at the table, eating.   Jack asks,  “Son… what happened last night?””Well, you came home after 3am, drunk and out of your mind. You fell over the coffee table and broke it, and then you puked in the hallway, and got that black eye when you ran into the door”.Confused, he asked his son, “So, why is everything in such perfect order and so clean?  I have a rose, and breakfast is on the table waiting for me??” His son replies, “Oh THAT!… Mom dragged you to the bedroom, and when she tried to take your pants off, you screamed, “Leave me alone, I’m married!”Broken Coffee Table $239.99Hot Breakfast $4.20Two Aspirins $0.38Saying the right thing, at the right time……? >> priceless

18 days til the new Dinosaur Jr.  This video is hilarious.  This song is sick.  Dinosaur Jr folks!

Was having a blast playing tennis with Ollie and got a call from Jake while walking home wanting to skate Rampy.  Word!  After only about 10 months of owning Rampy I finally started quickly like I’ve skated it before.  Got lots of my tricks real quick and had a good time.  At the end of the session Jake and I raced for gummy bears to tricks we were working on.  He was trying front feeble.  I was trying fakie back pivot to fakie.  He got his first try after making the deal.  It took me about 10 more tries.  I owe Jake gummy bears.  Yeah!

Haven’t been able to really skate in awhile and decided a solo red curbs session was in order.  As much as I sucked it up, it didn’t disappoint.  For whatever reason I went there thinking about a couple dumb little lines.  Like kickflip up and off the manny pad, ollie over a yellow bar and then 180 it without pushing, and finally a kickflip front 50 on the curb followed by a lipslide.  A parked scooter made the kick front 50 not an option so that line was out immediately.I started off real slow.  Insanely slow.  It took me at least 10 minutes before I could try a kickflip.  It was rough.  I eventually got into somewhat of a groove and landed a few things like front tails on the taller curb (yes, I call it the taller curb because it’s like 2 inches taller than the other curb and therefore tall), nose manny the manny pad, kick back tail the low curb etc.  I then kinda tried a few lines over and over.  One was crooks the ledge, back 50 the tall curb then kick back tail the low curb.  Never got all three.  I got the ollie over the yellow bar followed by 180 over it pretty quick.  Toward the end I was beat, but wanted to try some flippers.  So I did the kickflip up the taller side of the manny pad and kickflip off.  Tried to back it with a 360 flip but never got close.  Tried a bunch of nollie flips and never got those.  No surprise.  The other line I was trying was no comply 180, fakie flip, fakie big flip, fakie bigspin up the manny pad, front shove off.  Got it all but the front shove off.  And they all looked horrible.  Pretty hyped.  Didn’t really skate that well, but I skated really hard and needed a solo session to get my skate going again.

This should have been up awhile ago, but I’ve been distracted by so many things.  Nuggets, skateboarding, family visits, installing a new dishwasher, etc.  But either way, here we are, Psycho Unity flipping the bird while saying I Love You.  Classic!  Only one more Psycho Unity to go!