Dave Morin

I’ve held off on posting about the new love in my life. Not really sure why. But she’s getting impatient, as most girls do, to have her face on the scene. So, here she is.

I’ve been playing with some of the new features added to blogger over the last few months. It’s amazing to see the evolution of Blogger since I first started using it two years ago. One of the more fun things they have added is a profile feature. I’ve linked the picture on the right with my name in it to my profile, so check it out. There are some fun statistics in there. I only post on average twice a week. I think I need to step up my game because I swear I post more than that. I think the summers and other down times bring the average down. So, I am going to try to start posting on a more consistant basis. Also, apparantly my profile tells me that I was born in the year of the monkey. So I googled the year of the monkey and came up with the stuff below. It’s so wierd when these things describe you perfectly.

The Year of the Monkey
People born in the Year of the Monkey are the erratic geniuses of the cycle. Clever, skillful, and flexible, they are remarkably inventive and original and can solve the most difficult problems with ease. There are few fields in which Monkey people wouldn’t be successful but they have a disconcerting habit of being too agreeable. They want to do things now, and if they cannot get started immediately, they become discouraged and sometimes leave their projects. Although good at making decisions, they tend to look down on others. Having common sense, Monkey people have a deep desire for knowledge and have excellent memories. Monkey people are strong willed but their anger cools quickly.

I’ve come to yet another turning point in life. A place for reflection and excitment. A time for evolution not revolution. A place where saying “goodbye” is sometimes not the easiest thing to do. One thing I have learned in my short 23 year stay on this planet is that goodbye is rarely a reason to be sad. It’s a time for smiling and a time for opportunity moving into the future. I am as excited for stepping out into another chapter of my life as I am for every one of my friends. I have faith that wherever you will go, you will succeed. With a will and a dream, there is most definately a way. And, so on this night I turn to my favorite poem. A poem that I have made a point to always live my life by. A poem that helped me make the decision to go to Colorado. A poem who’s author is immortalized in bronze on my alma mater’s campus. A poem that lets me know that evolving yet again can only prove to be more promising than my last decision to do so. While I will miss all of the wonderful people that I have had the chance to know, play, and laugh with here in Colorado; I always know that great friends are only a plane flight away.

The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference

You have to love one of my best buddies Greg Hydle. He’s a certified Final Cut Pro master, and one of the best skiiers in Colorado that I know of. Check out his newest web project:

http://professionallyunemployed.com/

Rocky mountain front sunset via the deck of my pad.