telepathic stuntman

Made it to fifty!

Like pretty much all of us, never thought I’d make it, but here it is.

I had an amazing morning to kick things off with a 4:30am hike up Squaw Peak. Made it to the top by sunrise and sat there for about an hour.

The most astonishing thing was my arrival to the summit. The skies were a dull gray with good color at the base, a slight breeze blowing through and a rare steady shower of rain. Hundreds of feet above the nearest plants, a hummingbird flies to a point in front of me and hovers for just a moment – what was he doing way up here?! He darts away and just as quickly, a dragonfly flies into my space and hovers! WTH? I thought dragonflies were supposed to live down low where there’s water. He cruises away just as quickly and now a lizard enters the picture – it’s like the animal kingdom is coming out to say a little good morning!

After that it was just nice calm views of the city and mountains and a couple sips of Midleton – my new favorite whiskey that was given to me by the Yatso family.

Sublime.

On the way down I got comments about my crazy awesome orange boots – the third time in three hikes! This time the dude was the coach for the US International Wrestling team – we chatted all the way down the mountain and were stunned by how many people we both knew – including Nate Carr and Daryl Peterson.

The rest of the day was a good swim, back to bed for a couple hours, breakfast and a couple screwdrivers at Dicks Hideaway (Carne Adovada :WEEP:), a movie (“Inception” – cool), water BBall with Conor (kicked his ass), cocktails with Dorothy and Antoinette (Manhattens!), Cioppino at Tutti Santi (Flaming Sambuca with Debi and Brian!), a family poker tourney (Conor took out all three of us on one dramatic end!), and then chillin out on my mac with a glass of Jameson 18 year (thanks Doug!).

Great day – and the party is tomorrow!