Congrats to Fuzz and Leslie! One of the cutest couples out there.

Lots of fun was had all day and at the reception. Can’t believe our son Jack got kicked out. Geez, what bad parents Liz and I are. Ha, Jack and everyone else in this photo you rule!

I love seeing these dudes at the parks or anywhere. Super fun and positive. Can’t believe they put my two tricks in there. Thanks!

Fuzz’s wedding started at noon, but I woke up angry at how bad I skated the day before. So I decided to hit Broomfield park early to hopefully redeem myself. There was only two teenage kids at the park, but they were annoying enough. They would only do tricks if the other was filming them. When they actually landed tricks they wouldn’t even enjoy the ride out, they would jump off their board and self hype. I tried to stay as far away from them as possible, but it’s a small park. I started out by doing tricks on the quartapotty. I went through most of the basics and felt a little warmed up. Did an axle stall on the weird steep bank which I haven’t really touched before. Did a few tricks on the blue ledge. Pumped around the flow bowl. Messed around on the middle wedge thing and did a rock to halfcab flip out which felt pretty good and is probably the trick that stands out the most for the day. I messed around on the black ledge for awhile. Tried a line of front 50 front 180 out, fakie flip on the mellow bank, then crooks. Never got all of them. Then tried front 50 back 180 out (never got it), halfcab flip on the bank then halfcab noseslide, but never came close. Wussed out of trying the little boardslide down the rail, did some tiny f/s ollies on the brick qp and called it a day. Glad I somewhat redeemed myself. I don’t feel like skating in the morning is all that fun though, my body just isn’t ready for it.

Got out of work around 4:00 on a beautiful friday. Been thinknig of going to this park for awhile that is less than 5 minutes from IBM. I called up Bernie and he was down to meet up. I showed up first and used the free time to put some new bearings in. Then I cruised around and it was super weird rolling faster. My other bearings were so bad, old and done. I’m not sure why I skated so bad, but nothing clicked. Bernie showed up and started ripping pretty quick. Then three carloads of random dudes from Denver showed up. Whoa, I guess they had looked at the photos in the skatepark dir and thought the park looked fun. They were all cool, but I was hoping for a mellow session and it ended up being pretty heated and I was feeling extra lame for how my skating was going. There was a couple time I almost died on dumb shit. Once was on a kickflip to fakie on the bank where I almost rolled backwards under the rail. The other was an attempt at riding up one of the qp’s trying to go to cali grind. Not sure how I didn’t break my tailbone on the corner of the ledge, but I did survive. Bernie was straight killing it though. Long 50s. Long kick back tail to fakie. Sick line of kickflip, front board to fakie, fakie flip, fakie 5-0 fakie front shove out, fakie treflip. Geez. My only highlights were crooks on the short ledge, noseslide the tall ledge, not breaking anything, and well, nothing. At the end we played a game of SKATE that I lost. Last letter was a fakie bigflip which is normally an easy trick for me. Ugh. I’m guessing it was my arthritis or something that made me skate so bad. I felt really weird. I think the new bearings added a bit of weirdness too.