Greeley is an alright place. You need to have the right mindset going into anything. Tonight after work Cassie and I decided to saddle up the bikes and go for a ride into town. There is a place downtown called Patrick’s. Its a new bar that is in a 100yr old brick building. They had a bluegrass band called “Reservoir Rd”. I used to live by Reservoir Rd when I was growing up.
After that we went to the Relay for Life down at Island Grove Park. That is where I think most people in Greeley were at the moment.
It was fun. We rode our bikes for about a 5-7 mile round trip and got to see some people in our community. Summer time is great. The temperature was about perfect. I realized that not much has changed in 100years. This was most likely pretty close to what people were doing in 1896 when Greeley was founded.
There was one difference though. I got a page on my cell phone from one of our Unix Admins. Apparently one of the satilite servers at work took a dump and we had to switch to a backup for SSH / HTTP. I dont think that happened alot back then.
Here is a picture of me on my bike LOL:
Actually, it was formed (according to this) in 1870.
Greeley city (1990 pop. 60,536), seat of Weld co., N Colo., at the base of the Front Range of the Rocky Mts.; inc. 1885. It is a rail and trade center for a rich irrigated farm area. There is meatpacking and other food processing and the manufacture of bridges, apparel, chemicals, and software. Greeley was founded (1870) by Horace Greeley through his agent, Nathan C. Meeker, as a cooperative farm and temperance colony. Meeker was killed in the Ute uprising of 1879; his home is a museum. The city is the site of the Univ. of Northern Colorado and has a symphony orchestra, a theater, and an art gallery. Greeley also holds an annual rodeo.