Drambuie Unboxing

Aged Malt Whiskies, Spiced Honey and other Secret Stuff

Over 250 years ago, Captain John Mackinnon helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape from his pursuers on the Isle of Skye. His reward was to be entrusted with the recipe for Drambuie, which has been handed down through the generations and remains a closely guarded secret by the Mackinnon family to this day.

Weel may we a’ be,
Ill may we never see;
Here’s to the King
And the gude companie.

Through good fortune not unlike that bestowed upon John as he rescued Charlie, I received this Christmas a fine bottle of the sweet nectar that is Drambuie.  Truth be told, I asked for it and thusly did receive from my wise older sister Kris.  I am forever in her debt or at least in her debt until I’ve finished the bottle. Shouldn’t take too long.

The New rockymtnfuller.com

After years of procrastinating, I finally registered the rockymtnfuller.com domain.  With a few minutes of painstaking research, I selected the WordPress one-click install from the list of apps GoDaddy.com has available with its hosting packages.  I was already hosting with GoDaddy.com, so easy choice there.   For those familiar with OpenKimono, I’ve been blogging for a couple years now, mostly about  my business, gadgets, soccer and whatever.  RockyMtnFuller is more focused on family, in particular what my daughter’s Grace and Erin are up to as well as my wife Julie’s activities.  Anyway, check it out it if you like.  Or not.

ColderBOLDER08

On Friday I was just minding my own business and wrapping up work for the week when my buddy (we’ll call him… Eric Phipps) busted in on IM and said:

Eric:    I am running colder boulder this weekend.  Are you?
Dave:    nope.  no run for me.  didn’t even know about that.  i could do it though
Eric:    well if you do let me know – were having beers afterqwards probably at lazy dog on pearl streeet mall

What is the ColderBOLDER you ask?  It’s the little brother of the BolderBOULDER 10k.  A 5k race, this run is part of big brother’s race training series.  Normally, the weather this time of year would be pretty chilly thus the Colder moniker, but this morning I found myself sitting at Buchanan’s Coffee Pub staring at gray skies and 52°F at 8am.  Not bad.

The race course runs through and around the perimeter of the University of Colorado at Boulder and, like the 10k, is impeccably organized.  I did a walk in registration with no problem.  The race is run in waves according to your most recent 10k time, so you can go out and shoot for a official PR quite easily.

Now, I haven’t been running a ton lately; 3 days a week around my neighborhood 4.5mi loop plus pick-up soccer on Saturdays when the weather is nice, thus my expectations were for about a 25 min time.  Where did I finish? 21:43.  And I didn’t throw up (but it was close).

Afterwords, I rolled home to observe Julie and the kids trimming our Christmas tree , but that’s another story that’s probably never to be told.