Mindless Rambling

Yeah, it’s actually day 8 now.  I forgot to post one last night.  Oops.

After arriving in Detroit friday afternoon the bro drove me up to his crib in central Michigan.  I began a St Patty’s day mini-tour at the Old Chicago.  Gotta love a place that turns drinking into a challenge and game.  Prizes and all!  I wish they had those back in Jerz.

Saw “Watchmen” Saturday.  What’s with the excessive blue wang?  C’Mon.  Minus the excessively unnecessary Pen-15, I’d say it was a good movie.  I had never read the book (lets be honest I’m not a reader) so I probably didn’t get as much out of it as others would, but definately some great action scenes and  good amount of gratuitious bloody violence.  Sweet.  I’m  simple man with simple wishes including 1) bloody violence, 2) some boobs, 3) no pen-15’s, 4) decent story line with back story, 5) good vs eviless.  4 out of 5 ain’t bad.

Five days completed in Denver. As I write this I’m ok a flight bound for Detroit Michigan to visit my brother. Have I ever mentioned how much I love my iPhone??? Gotta love the wordpress app with the ability to save for publishing later. Too bad I just wrote like three paragraphs and lost it for no good reason.
So Denver was fun. Despite the work parts. Rather productive too. Which is good. While there I got to visit some friends, see an eagle nesting, eat at a great middle eastern restaraunt with the best houmous ever, try some local brewpubs, and see some of the greatest scenery this country has to offer.
I was kind of surprised by all the lines at the airport checkin today. That’ll teach me not to checkin online ahead of time. Pfft. I think today a lot of people were traveling for spring break. Can’t complain though. I’m starting vacation today too!!!!
So this airplane is a bit strange. It’s an express jet. The first class has 1 + 2 seats, so an off center aisle. The schlep seats are a normal 2 + 2 center aisle. I’m in the first row right behind first class and my seat is kind of right in the path of the off center aisle. I got to greet everyone that came onboard behind me. I’m not sure of I’m supposed to but I’m stretching out. Love the footroom!!!
Call me a geek, but one of the things i’m most excited about going to Michigan is watching the last two episodes of Battlestar Galactica with the bro. Next to last episode is tonight. To be honest, I specificaly took an early enough flight to make sure we’d get back I’m time to watch it. Heh heh heh. I had forgotten to make a prediction post or the regular BSG posts I wanted to the past months. Ill have to make a point of an extra post tomorrow for my final episode predictions.
Oh and aparantly with the new star trek movie trailer recently, my post weeks ago on the first trailer is getting a lot of hits. Maybe I should review the new trailer given my obvious web fame and authority on the subject. I mean, I do follow Wil Wheaton, LeVar Burton, and Brent Spiner on twitter. None of them are involved in the new movie so that makes me equally qualified to comment on it as them. Hah.
Hmm. What else to write on the plane. Turbulence sucks. There. That’ll be sufficient.

Today I saw a Golden Eagle that has a nest in the area near here.  Ok, I saw it through binoculars from a distance and it looked kind of like a dark dot among a bunch of twigs.  But she was there.  Nesting her eggs.  Still really cool.  How often can you say that??

Tried another local beer here from Fort Collins Brewery, their Chocolate Stout.  I’ve had good chocolate stouts and not so good ones.  This one was pretty good.  Not too strong not too light.  A nice happy chocolate beer.  I had a chocolate cookie with it.  Yay.  I’ve been trying to eat good on this trip, and so far not too bad. Though not great.  I mean, they have fresh baked cookies in the lobby every night - C’Mon.  I have been pretty good about getting my veggies too, so yeah.

Tomorrow I’m leaving Denver, heading to visit the brother in Michigan.  Woo hoo!  VACATION!

So I have this goal of blogging every day of this 15 day trip of mine… but I really don’t have anything of substance to write about today.  But at least I’m writing anyways.  I guess not every day of being on travel, especially when it’s for work, can be all that interesting.  Sigh.  It is nice to relax a bit too like I’m doing right now.  Too bad there’s no new LOST on tonight.  Maybe I’ll find some movie to watch or start delving into iPhone coding.  Maybe.

I gotta say - yesterday and today were quite productive days on the job.  Actually finally got some objects into production which is quite a feat if you had any idea how “Project Bob Evan’s” was going.  Quite happy about that.

This evening I went to Wynkoop Brewery in LoDo (that’s what the people in the know call LOwer DOwntown Denver).  Wow… 14 beers on tap.  Getting the sampler should include the taxi drive home.  And good beers too.  I partook in the IPA, Pilsner, Big Easy Ale, and the Smoked Porter.  I liked all of them.  I happened to be tweeting about it almost the whole time too.  After missing the twitter event this past saturday night that @dogfishbeer was participating in, I thought it’d be good to do my own event.  Then I got bored.  Whatever. 

So this morning it snowed in the greater Denver area.  Then it got warm and misty.  Then it was all melted away.  The view driving in so long as you weren’t sliding around on the slippery snowy mess was amazing.  I managed to grab a few good pics kind of while driving. 

Unfortunately, the view from my “office” is really the view from a conference room with no windows and actually no doors.  I have to crawl in through the HVAC system duct work to get to there, and don’t get out until the end of the day.  Actually it’s not that bad, but no - no windows.  But these pics are pretty representative of the view that I would have should I walk 20 feet to the windowed parts of the offices.  One pic in here is also the view from the parking lot of the hotel I’m at here.  Also a view that I don’t have from my room - actually in my room I have a view of the closed pool and the parking lot.  But if I croon my head to the side, I can see the Denver Suburbs off in the distance, which in all seriousness is really really cool to see lit up at night!  I hope you all could get a chance to visit out here sometime to see it for yourself cause these pictures really don’t do it all justice!  Enjoy!

Went to work today here in Denver.  Bow.  For dinner though, met up with some folks from the office and went to the Damascus Grill.  Gooood middle eastern food.  I had the Lamb Kabob.  And brought back a piece of Baklava to the hotel for dessert.  Most excellent.

Last night for dinner I had gone to Hops and got their Beer Sampler and the Steak and Crab cake meal.  Some of the beers were pretty good, others were so so.  I’d give it say a 6.5 out of 10 overall.  Meh.

Then met up with some friends in the Denver area.  Rocked out with some guitar hero.  Then went BOWLING.  I was totally awesome at both guitar hero and bowling, if I do say so myself.  And I didn’t spill a beer and break the glass and cut my hand… hah!

Right now I’m finishing up the Baklava and just chillin.  Good to relax.  The time changes and altitude is messing with my head… Until tomorrow!

Today I start a 15 day trip. First I’m off to Denver for a week of work. That’s the not as fun part, the work that is. Flying outearly today to get accustomed to the time difference. Though I forgot about the start of dst so it’s actually just like one hour difference instead of two. Neat. Gotta love those fluctuations in the space time continuum.
Anyways. I’ll be in Denver today until Friday then I start the fun part of my trip. Flying out to Michigan to visit the brother. We’ll just hang out in the michigan chill and we’ve got tickets to to see the Flyers in Detroit. So looking forward to that visit!
So I’m sitting in the airport waiting for my flight. I always get to the airport way much earlier than I probably need to. Better early than late though I guess. Wow I’m so growing up to be my father. :). He’s kind of the “anti-procrastinator”. It’s all good though. I get to relax and enjoy some coffee and breakfast and blog before I get crammed into my middle seat all uncomfortable with the tray tables and lack of footroom for four hours. And I gotta tell you - I’ve got big feet. You know what they say about guys with big feet don’t you? We hate airplane seat’s footroom, thats what.

Classic Noreaster Snow Storm hit the eastern sea board today.  I was originally supposed to drive down to DC today for work, but that didn’t happen!  Darn.

Took this nice pic of my garage and my neighbors nice new fence.  Quite picturesque if I do say so myself.  FYI - this is the view out my window from my “office” when I’m working from home.  Much nicer today than on most days.

That’s right ladies and gentlemen… It’s that special month where the facial hair is strategic, the children are locked away, and the ladies are stunned by manly sexiness…

Welcome to Mustache March!!!

I mean… really…. it’s ME we’re talking about here…