Ready to party

I don't know if it's gonna be a "Party" but I'm invited at a family get together for thanksgiving at Sarah's uncle's place in North Dakota, pretty near form Fargo. I'll be out of Bozeman for about 4 days.
It's true Ruben that I didn't write much on the blog these days, it has been almost a month!!

Well let's try to summarise a month worth of craziness, I've spent a week-end in Helena MT, the capital city of Montana. Sarah had a conference there and I jumped on the occasion to visit another city. It's a little bigger that Bozeman (around 50 thousand) and it was strangely empty of people. That might be because it was a Friday in fact. Anyway it looked like a nice city with more history than Bozeman.

I've been to work, where I got done some good old coding. I'm thinking about changing my methodology so I would have more to say in my report that I'm planning to start writing next week.

It's been snowing here almost non-stop for the past couple of days. I tell you it's brrrrrrrrr!! The snow melts and creates some nice ice rings on the streets. I've seen some cars missing their turns right from my window. They didn't seem to get hurt, just out of the road.

I've been playing a lot with my new guitar! Let me introduce my new baby, a Gibson SG faded brown. 6 strings, two nice humbekers with a very nice warm sound. The neck is a real pleasure to play, it's really fast. Specially to get the 20th and plus frets, there is no wood obstructing the left hand! This is a nice improvement compared to my old pal, the Epiphone Explorer Goth which design, even if really cool and hardcore, makes it a little harder to play.

With the Acolyts we start being pretty serious about composing an album, I have recorded a few riffs, we are writing lyrics, designing a cool logo for the band and also working on the band itself, its orientation, its philosophical meaning ;) Today, thanks to Justin (Acolyt n°2) we have a pretty near perfect logo that just needs a couple improvements to rock even more! The compositions are for now at early stages but I can tell you it sounds like wicked mix between Megadeth, Judas Priest and Pink Floyd (what ??). Well that's what we would like to do. We are still looking for a drummer who would become Acolyt n°4.

The other day we went hiking and we took some nice pictures form Spanish Creek. So here are the pictures, for the ones who prefer to look than to read!

I'd like to send more but blogger seems to be bugging...































Thanks for reading Montana Clem !!
Scenic & disastrous writing.

Fancy trip to the fairy lake

fairy lake clean water

Clean water for a change, no trans-fat, not in a bottle. Today we've been to the "fairy lake", a very pretty spot, 30 minutes from Bozeman. It's located in the Bridgers mountains, the ones that has the college M, but on the other side. Well anyway, that was one good occasion to take my camera out. Unfortunately I discovered when I arrived at the lake that I forgot the 1Gb SD-Card in my computer's slot. I've been taking some pics lately of my brand new bike !! (but I'll talk about it in another post) and stuff around Bozeman. Today let's focus on the Fairy Lake, it's a little heaven out of the city, at about 6000 feet.

We've been driving there with Sarah's Oldsmobile Intrigue, It's a pretty cool car she has but definitely a city ride. So that was great until we arrived on the fairy lake trail, 7 miles of off-road pleasure. Quite bumpy, but definitely fun (except that sometimes we were a bit worried about breaking the car, but oh well what's a car after all), there were some cows around in the forest, which was pretty weird. I guess the rancher who owns them must be pretty confident that they will find their way back! As we were gaining altitude we had a great view on the valley and the Bridger canyon.

Finally we arrived at the Fairy lake. Seriously if I could buy a little cabin, I would put it right there. The scenery is truly beautiful, on one side impressive mountains (Bridgers) on the other side there are a few trees and a big valley.

There is a small trail around the lake, and when the sun reflects on the water it makes thousands of shiny sparkles, thousands of fairies dancing upon the water, mystique whirling little lights, inspiring fantasy and day dreaming.

Thanks for reading montana clem. More poetry to come (maybe) and crazy stories (for sure). We appreciate your business.