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I will write something more proper later, but I saw this somewhere and was amused.

You are a Coloradoan if .............

1. You switch from 'Heat' to 'A/C' in one day.
2. You know what the 'Peoples Republic of Boulder' means.
3. Your sense of direction is: toward the mountains and away from the mountains.
4. You're a meat-eating vegetarian.
5. The bike on your car is worth more than your car and you have your own special bike lane.
6. You're able to drive 65 miles per hour through 13 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without even flinching.
7. You take your out-of-town guests to Casa Bonita even though you would never go there otherwise. *
8. You think your major food groups are granola bars, tofu and Fat Tire Beer.
9. You design your kid's Halloween costumes to fit over a snowsuit.
10. You think that sexy lingerie is wool socks and flannel PJs.
11. You know all 4 seasons 'almost winter, winter, still winter and spring blizzards
12. You've been tear gassed in a riot to celebrate a CU/CSU victory.
13. You can never figure out why your out-of-town guests faint from altitude sickness on a picnic to the mountains.
14. You can drive over a 12,000-foot pass in 4 feet of snow, but can't get to work if there are 4 inches of snow.
15. You know the 'correct' pronunciation of Buena Vista.
16. When you visit friends at sea level, you can drink a case of beer and not get a buzz.
17. Your car insurance costs more than your car.
18. You have surge protectors on every outlet. **
19. April showers bring May blizzards.
20. 'Timberline' is someplace you have actually been.
21. You know what a 'Chinook' is
22. You know what a 'Rocky Mountain Oyster' is.
23. You know what a 'fourteener' is.
24. But you don't know what a 'turn signal' is.
25. A bear on your front porch doesn't bother you nearly as much as a Republican in Congress does.
26. Your golf bag has a 9-iron, a 3-wood and a lightning rod.
27. People from out of state breathe 5 times as often as you do.
28. Having a Senator named Nighthorse doesn't seem strange.
29. Thunder has set off your car alarm.
30. You have an $800 stereo in your $300 truck.
31. You think a red light means 3 more cars can go.
32. Where we're going, we don't need roads!!
33. You know where the real 'South Park' is.
34. You can recognize the license plates of all 50 states on sight.
35. Driving directions usually include 'Go over_________ Pass.'
36. You've checked for ticks.
37. You've dressed in shorts, sandals, and a parka with a hood.
38. You've gone snow skiing in July and.........
39. You've played golf in January and.......
40. They were in the same year!
41. You know what a down slope and an up slope weather pattern is.
42. You've urinated on the Continental Divide just so it could run into both oceans.
43. And the most important: You get a certain feeling of satisfaction from knowing that California and Texas are both down stream.

* This is true. Casa Bonita is repulsive. It's a Mexican restaurant with the worst, most greasy food. But there are cliff divers and Mariachi bands and things like that. It's Denver's version of South of the Border.

** I've had two computers bite the dust here due to power surges. No joke.

Maybe It Was a Perfect Day

But that sounds so complacent, and I don't intend that at all.

It was cold. It snowed. We both had Tuesday off, a gift from the gods. I slept late. Jarek woke up early and went to the dentist. When I woke up I discovered I had a fraud alert on my credit card. They did the same thing that they did to Jarek: buying gasoline in Florida. It has to be some local crime: We want to find the perps and turn them in, but we need to know more. Someone is stealing our information, fabricating new credit cards, and selling them in Florida. There cannot be that many suspects; there are not that many places we both shop in the little village that is our world in Brooklyn.

It snowed. I worked on my writing workshop homework. As usual, I am commenting madly on my classmates instead of working on my own stuff. Is it my destiny, to be an editor?

It snowed. We went for a walk. I worked on my writing workshop. I made risotto. We drank prosecco. We are going to Venice, and have to be prepared.

It snowed. Garth is gone. We have to face that. We have to be brave.