What a Weekend

February 19th, 2008 by Daron

Friday, Barth Ward (producer extraordinaire) and I went to the Hed Cycling Event atOne on One bicycle studios. We had a really good time, met some new people from Hed and Litespeed and some nutty dude who collects Italian Racing bikes from the early 20th century, drank some beer and looked at vintage bikes with wicked carbon aero wheels. (soon I’ll get used to this blogging thing and I’ll take pics while I’m there). The Litespeed guy told me their newest thing is making the titanium frame for the next Mars rover. I asked Mr Litespeed (can’t remember his name) how they came to make the connection with NASA, he said that the engineers were bike geeks and were well aware of Litespeeds expertise with titanium, and instead of NASA replicating their design, they just gave them the contract. Cool stuff.

Saturday, I Dj’d my god daughters (Sadie and Lena) 14 th birthday party. I’ve Dj’d for many years now and have had few gigs where I’ve had no idea what to play… but this was one of them. I had no clue what 14 year olds listen to, so I asked them to give me a list of what they like. I played for 3 1/2 hrs. The girls and there friends are so much cooler than I was at 14. They danced the whole time … boys and girls.

Sunday (thanks to JMatt), we had the second annual rock-n-roll dad and sons snow tubing day at “green acres“. We all had a fantastic time. What a great bunch of kids. Snow/Snacks and tow ropes, what a good way to spend a Sunday in February at 45 degrees latitude. My son Henry was beside himself, he had so much fun. He wants to go every weekend now.

I took Monday off.