Alvin Alexander

Here are a few views of the Boulder, Colorado area and the Rocky Mountains after our recent snowstorms. This first photo was taken on December 3, 2011, as it looked like another storm was about to hit us:

I just took this second one on the morning of December 4, 2011. I haven’t checked the weather yet, but it looks like we might have a clearer day after 2+ of snowstorms:

The locals keep telling me that it usually snows one day and melts the next day, because it’s usually very sunny here … time will tell.

When I first moved to the Colorado area (way back in October, 2011), I picked up a local Boulder newspaper, and found this ad for a showing of The Big Lebowski at the Boulder Theater:

You have to love the “$1 off of White Russians with robe or costume” line. Actually, you have to love a movie theater that serves White Russians.

For more information on their schedule, here’s a link to the Boulder Theater, in Boulder, Colorado.

I do like my donuts, and when I first moved to Colorado, I was very disappointed to see this news about Dunkin’ Donuts:

Hopefully they’ll get a Dunkin’ Donuts franchise opened somewhere around Boulder, Colorado in the near future.

In happier news, I did find a Krispy Kreme donut location just down the road, in Westminster, Colorado (I think it was Westminster):

There were no donut chains at all in Alaska, so as you might imagine, I enjoyed my visit at Krispy Kreme. (I had a little catching up to do.)

If you know me, you know I start hanging the Christmas lights indoors as soon as it starts getting dark outside early. Of course in Alaska that was really early, and here in Colorado, I started hanging the Christmas lights in my apartment in mid-November:

Of course, if you also know me, you also know I start baking fresh cookies around the same time. (Cookies not shown … but they sure do smell good.)

When I first moved to the Boulder, Colorado area in October, the first several news stories I heard were about mountain lions in the Boulder area. This photo of an indoor cat and outdoor mountain lion shows the problem pretty well:

Or, as I wrote on my Facebook account, “Little kitty looks in the ‘mirror’ and thinks, wow, I’m looking pretty fierce today.”

In 2012 I plan to restart my computer programming company, Valley Programming, here in the Boulder, Colorado area, but until then I’ve been working on some personal programming projects, and also taking a little time off for things like, well, bowling:

That 233 score is one of my highest scores ever, but beginning that game with six consecutive strikes is something I’ve never done before, so I’m pretty happy today.

I ran across this Albert Einstein quote recently, and it reminds me of what I think of myself some times:

If you can’t see that image for some reason, the quote is:

“Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

I like to think that I’m pretty good at a lot of things related to computers, like being a business analyst, computer programmer, and so on, and I’m also very good at most sports, but when it comes to things like auto repair, I’m pretty useless.

So, lesson of the day: We’re all good at some things, and not good at other things, and there’s no shame in that.

As a new resident of the Boulder, Colorado area, I’ve quickly grown to love the views of the Rocky Mountains from here. Without much introduction, here’s one view of the mountains during the day:

And here’s a second view of the mountains near Boulder, this time at sunset in late November, 2011:

Both of these photos were taken from my apartment, which, as you can see, has a pretty incredible view of the Rocky Mountains.

While living in Alaska over the summer I created a website named OneMansAlaska.com (Living in Alaska), filled with tons of pictures and fewer words. I hope you like it.