Wowie what a wonderful trip to Boise for the life affirming Treefort Festival!!!
Sometimes itās really hard to think my job is worth the amount of stress it brings my life; or that weāre actually doing anything truly worthwhile or culturally relevant beyond selling some beer. So it was incredible to get to watch so many of my favorite performers to ever play our little bar headline a major festival together! And even better to spend a little more time with them now; many years and miles down the line from where our paths first crossed. I am so lucky in life!!!
Thanks to Henry for inviting us out, Treefort for having us, and Gracie for agreeing to go 2 weeks before we get married - when we definitely have other stuff to be worried about!!! Rust Never Sleeps!!
My life has changed so much in the last 30-60 days itās impossible to describe. Iāve gotten engaged, moved into a real house, a new (real) job with lots of new opportunities, and Bottlerocketās gotten to host the biggest shows weāve ever had. I am overwhelmed with gratitude and canāt properly explain and probably havenāt even been able to process.
People keep telling me itās because of how hard weāve worked the last 3-4 years, but that doesnāt seem like enough of an explanation. There are a lot of people that work hard - Iām a lucky guy living a very lucky life and I donāt take that for granted. And a lot of great people have helped us get to this point - from family, friends, co-workers, people whoāve given us opportunities and taken chances with/on us.
It feels like someone is going to bust down the door and tell us thereās been a mistake and everything thatās happened the last 2 months is going to be undone. Itās been such a long and winding and impossibly unpredictable journey. Rust Never Sleeps. I just wanted to say how grateful I am and yes, I recognize how lucky and insanely wild the last 2 months have been.
Anyway, this was - more or less - July (?)
Happy birthday (late night style because weāve been moving into our dream house all day) to my everything & my FIANCĆ - Gracie, Greg, G, Etc.
You have been the bedrock of our very crazy and very unique lives (as days like todayās proveā¦) through everything. Even by our standards, the last year has been one of the craziest ever - full of magic, dreams, huge changes, leaps taken, and lots of love. I donāt know how weāll top it - but we have the rest of our lives together to try ā„ļø