It's pretty difficult to find a good place in Breck, especially during this time of the year, everyone is both moving out and in all at the same time so it become very competitive. Thankfully, I think I may have lined up and will know by Monday, I will keep you posted. It's a small 1 room apartment, just for me, and its even closer to my job than the place that I am in right now. Looks like I am going to be staying here for a year. I could really think of worse things, to be honest. Hopefully my fortitude granted to me by Chicago winters will see me through this place once the winter comes.
Yesterday I had to work a double, I got off work the night before at 5:30am, and had to be back at Noon, work for 4 hours, go home and come back to work 6 to close, alone, on a weekend, it was good times. I was on my little 2 hour break between shifts and I decided to walk home and take a little nap, I was almost home and I saw my neighbor outside and I just said "Howdy Neighbor" and kept walking, and this woman yelled after me, "Hey, you want a bike?". So I figured she was trying to sell me a bike, I went and took a look at it and it is basically brand new, its this nice little mountain bike, she told me that I could have it for free, cause they are moving and they don't feel like taking it. So... ya I got a free bike just for saying hello to my neighbor. Well also I helped her put her grill into her car, but I think if I had to do it all over again I would.
The funny thing is that just the day before I was looking at the bikes that the bike rental places are starting to sell because the winter season is coming. You can get a bike for literally half its retail cost, I have seem 3k road bikes go for 1k, I wanted this small mountain bike for 275 but I was trying to make sure I could pay my incredibly large first, last, and deposit on my new place. Good thing I held off cause now I have a basically brand new bike that I got for free.This is why I wonder about luck and karma, I feel so lucky out here, things of course go a little haywire for time to time, but I just keep my head up and within a couple of day I have been given a new bike, or a good job, or an awesome apartment, its hard to believe that I work for anything because sometimes it seems so effortless to acquire it.
I have also been kind of getting in with the open mic crowd, which incidentally is also the chess crowd and old bookstore crowd, you wont hear me complaining. I have been going to chess nights and open mics every mon and tues since I have gotten here. Funny story, I was at the chess club and I look over, and this guy that looked very familiar was also looking back at me, and I was like "Tom?" and he was like "Craig?", it was a guy that I knew about 5 years ago back from home. He just lived 1 town over and we used to hang out and had a group of friends and everything, we both kind of dropped off the grid for a while but suddenly here he is. I can tell that he has grown up a lot, its just so funny how he came out here a month ago, and I came out 2 months ago, we had the same thought at pretty much the same time, and here we are in a place that only has a population of about 5,000, what are the odds?
Back to the open mic, last week I couldn't play because I had a tragic long boarding accident and messed up my hand, its still pretty sore but I think by Monday I will be able to play, which is good because one of the guys in the group decided that I am going to play lead guitar for him for "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" -Led Zepplin, and "The Final Cut" -Pink Floyd, while he sings and plays backup guitar, I am actually pretty excited, but I need to study and my hand needs to come back to me. Even if this Monday doesn't work out, I learned about another open mic night on Wednesdays that is actually run at the book store where we all play chess and stuff. Its more of a poetry, acoustic music, acapella kinda venue, I think Chris would love it. I took this Wednesday off and am going to go to that as well. The next 3 days will be Open Mic, Chess Night, then even better Open Mic, I cannot wait for my days off.So there it is, a small part of a much larger week, I got a free bike, pretty much found an apartment, I like my job, and in general I am happy and having a good time. It seems like I should be getting some visitors soon, my grandparents and my mom and brother, and some of my friends, I hope to see you all soon. Thank you all for reading this post, I will hopefully find the chance to write again soon.
Craig
Nice bike!!!!!
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