http://denver.yourhub.comThe latest blog posts in The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.comen-usnews@yourhub.com(c) 2009, YourHub.com5The regular readers of my pabulum (both of you) may have noticed that the proliferation of my posts has become considerably more sparse. Although I'd like to plead scarcity of time due to work, family commitments, and just plain old life, in general, in all honesty the real culprit has been Face...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~679771.aspx10/29/2009 11:10:08 PMBill Boucher Eleven p.m., Friday- I lie in bed next to my wife. My legs are twitching, my mind is racing, and the math my brain won't stop doing tells me I have less than five hours to sleep. Judy tells me to slowly breathe in through my nose and out through my mouth. Three forty-five a.m., Saturday- I rub ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~658303.aspx9/22/2009 10:24:33 AMBill Boucher Saturday, October 17th, 2009, scores of your friends and neighbors will be walking around Northglenn to raise money for the starving and displaced people of developing countries. These CROP Walks have been going on nationally for the past sixty years and raised millions of dollars, over 264 mill...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~656937.aspx9/16/2009 7:32:51 PMBill Boucher The inspiration for this post was a particularly grueling, fourteen mile hike I did recently in my prepartion for my upcoming Pike's Peak hike. I recently hiked a fourteen mile loop in Boulder that hits all three major summits; South Boulder Peak, Bear Peak, and Green Mountain. At about the elev...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~644402.aspx8/7/2009 8:34:10 AMBill Boucher So; I've decided to accept the Pikes Peak Challenge. On Saturday, September 12 th, I'll be hiking Pikes Peak via the Barr Trail in an effort to raise money to support the Brain Injury Association of Colorado. When I've finished, I will have hiked 13 miles and gained over 7500 feet in elevation. ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Recreation/Blog~634906.aspx7/10/2009 7:19:40 AMBill Boucher After a weekend automobile trip across state lines with Judy, and after reminiscing with classmates at my 25 year class reunion, one thing has been made abundantly clear; I have the dubious distinction of being the worst driver anyone who knows me knows. Judy may have thought that she was the o...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~622640.aspx6/2/2009 11:31:38 PMBill Boucher Amongst the "ABC's of me", one of my most defining characteristics is my tendency to be a little obsessive. Whether it's the fact that I must always pull five napkins from the dispenser at our favorite pizza joint (no more, no less), a new found musical love dominating my CD purchases, or a new ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~606464.aspx4/21/2009 9:39:04 PMBill Boucher I like to think I'm a do-my-own-thing, independent type of guy. However, every once in a while, a fad, nay, a wave of cultural phenomenon comes along so suddenly and completely pervasively that I, too, am sucked down by the undertow. The icon currently enthralling the consumptive masses is, ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~595242.aspx3/23/2009 10:34:17 PMBill Boucher Players: Bill Bill's inner monologue (Bim) Colorado State Trooper (Trooper) God Setting: Somewhere near mile marker 234, southbound from Loveland to Brighton It is the end of a long, thirteen hour work day. Anxious to be home and fatigued from a long day, Bill speeds recklessly dow...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~584023.aspx2/24/2009 11:27:15 PMBill Boucher The Thornton Community Band will present "All-American Influences", its second concert of 2008-2009 season, on Thursday, March 5, 2009. The concert will be held at the Skyview High School Auditorium, 8990 York Street, at 7:30 p.m. and is free of charge, although donations will be accepted. This ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~581816.aspx2/18/2009 9:59:07 PMBill Boucher I'm smiling as I reflect on my still green toenails. They are green not because of a misplaced step and toe-stubbing or some industrial accident. They are green because I paid a small Asian woman to make them so. Let's back up a little. It started with one of Judy and my semi-weekly phone ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~568532.aspx1/15/2009 7:27:49 AMBill Boucher Personal Ads: Looking for soul mate for Christmas and the rest of my life. Must be patient. I can and will fail You often. I may go days or even weeks without even talking to You. Do You have enough love for both of us? I need Someone who will love me even when I am unlovable. I need Someon...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~561910.aspx12/24/2008 8:39:08 AMBill Boucher Dear Santa... Hi Santa! How are all the reindeer? I hope you are all good. I'm not so good. I don't want a lot of new toys or anything this year. Okay, I wouldn't say no to a Buffy Texts Alot doll or a new iPod, but I don't know if you can give me what I really want. I want a new name. It's no...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~553008.aspx11/27/2008 1:05:13 AMBill Boucher It is normally with foreboding that I make my annual trip to see Dr. Segall for my physical. This year was different, though. I woke up on a recent Wednesday morning at six and, although I was taking the day off, I was too excited to go back to sleep. It was just as though it were Christmas ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~545960.aspx11/9/2008 3:19:04 PMBill Boucher Being an outgoing, extroverted individual has generally served me well. In keeping with karmic yin and yang, however, no positive character trait goes unpunished. Apparently, I'm the kind of person anybody can, and more to the point will, walk over and talk to. The most recent occurrence of th...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~544334.aspx11/5/2008 7:27:08 AMBill Boucher Let me begin by saying I floss once a year whether I need to or not. I also brush at least once a day... usually. It's not that I don't love my teeth and would like to hold on to them; it's more that it never seemed to be a priority. "What? Toothless by forty? Shoot; I'll be dead by then." As wi...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~528819.aspx10/2/2008 12:32:48 PMBill Boucher Saturday, October 18th, 2008, hundreds of your friends and neighbors will be walking around Northglenn to raise money for the starving and displaced people of developing countries. These CROP Walks have been going on nationally for the past sixty years and raised millions of dollars, over 264 mi...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~526660.aspx9/28/2008 3:15:28 PMBill Boucher Being someone who fancies himself a writer, I'd like to think that I am somewhat in tune with the lexicon of the times. One thing I've noticed is that every once in a while, certain buzz words pop up. You've heard it as well, I'm sure. A certain word you've heard only sparingly over the last dec...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~519107.aspx9/9/2008 9:01:33 PMBill Boucher Much has happened in my two month, self-imposed hiatus. Usually it's hard to shut me up, either literally, or in the literary sense. Why, might you ask, would anyone so self important turn his back on such an undemanding and free source of self expression. The short answer is I've been busier th...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~514459.aspx8/28/2008 3:41:15 PMBill Boucher I have a new hobby. Whenever I'm out and about, I like to count how many trucks, hummers, and other huge vehicles that have a for sale sign in the window. During a recent ten-mile drive from my house to a nearby shopping center, I observed no less than five such vehicles parked on the sides of v...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~487036.aspx6/22/2008 6:29:48 PMBill Boucher Recently, Judy and I were in Walgreens to pick up some vibrating toothbrushes, when in walked six teenaged kids, two boys and four girls. They were dressed in a manner sure to displease their parents, greasy hair hanging in their faces, and the girls' makeup matched their dark world view. ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~474688.aspx5/23/2008 11:26:51 PMBill Boucher I've loved numbers ever since I was a small child. The count on Sesame Street was my homeboy. Numbers and math have always spoken to obsessive compulsive in me. It actually started in the womb. It was like one of those shows where they ask the horse what two and two are, and he stomps the ground...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~465757.aspx5/4/2008 4:04:05 PMBill Boucher After a particularly hellish month and a half of work, I was blessed recently to have four whole days off with my wife. This may not sound like a big deal to many people, but in a mixed marriage in which one partner works retail and the other doesn't, days off together happen as often as Michael...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~461082.aspx4/24/2008 2:19:07 PMBill Boucher In the best of circumstances, I am something of a suspect chef. For instance, I make great breakfast burritos, but I'm not exactly sure how to boil an egg. I'm not good at frying things, but I'm an idiot savant at making sauces. My chicken dumpling soup is the stuff of legend and I can make home...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~453945.aspx4/10/2008 11:25:03 AMBill Boucher I've loved meat for as long as I can remember. Growing up in a big family no doubt contributed to this. Inexpensive lunch meat like bologna was often fodder for our lunches. Nearly nightly, mom would perform the miracle of the hamburger and the crackers, turning a handful of ground beef, some cr...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~450511.aspx4/2/2008 12:45:22 PMBill Boucher A four hour layover at Miami International Airport is kind of like a four hour layover in hell, only the people in hell can rationalize that "at least it's a dry heat". But I'm getting ahead of myself here. Let's start at the beginning, a very good place to start (at least in travelogues and Rog...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~444831.aspx3/20/2008 9:08:20 PMBill Boucher I'm typically not a soap box type of guy, but I feel the need to warn my friends in cyber land of the underhanded business practices of Wolfcamera.com. Recently, my wife Judy called me at work and told me very excitedly that Wolf had an unbelievable deal on a 10.1 mega-pixel Canon Rebel EOS d...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~434606.aspx2/27/2008 8:28:00 PMBill Boucher I am normally a happy-go-lucky kind of guy. I usually like to think the cup is half full rather than half empty, the sky is partly sunny rather than partly cloudy, and that Quasimodo was more Modo than Quasi. Every once in a while though, silver linings have a cloud, it's even darker after the d...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~424030.aspx2/4/2008 12:45:07 AMBill Boucher Before I share the following information, I must swear you to secrecy. I know; to look at me, you might think, "Hey, he seems like a guy who has it moderately together. He's got a great wife, a decent job, and one day in about 2033, his house will be paid off. He's living the American dream." I ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~420585.aspx1/27/2008 11:49:02 PMBill Boucher Say what you will about Catholics, but one thing no one can deny is their faith. Specifically, when a man and woman have taken the divine mandate to be fruitful and multiply as seriously as my parents did, there was no questioning their belief that God will provide. It is quite clear that my fol...http://denver.yourhub.com/Brighton/Blogs/Archive/Blog~415179.aspx1/14/2008 11:57:06 PMBill Boucher