In most cases you would think picking someone up from the airport is a very uninteresting and common task. I mean there is the aspect of seeing a person that has been away and that is great. But other than that a fairly common task. That certainly was my mentailatiy last night when I left work to pick up Aileen from her extended stay in Ohio. To be honest with you that part of the evening was fairly basic. Traffic wasn’t terrible and I managed to get there on time picking her up with no problem. That was where the normaility of the evening ceased. During the conversation on the ride home aileen began to discuss how she had a weird feeling about the day and thought something was going to happen on the flight. Sure enough turing the corner onto our street we noticed a good half dozen cop cars lined at the intersection in front of our place. “Another accident” said Aileen referring to the countless car accidents that occur in front of our place. As we got closer and eventually pulled in to a parking spot adjacent our apartment there were no signs of any smashed up cars, glass etc. Right at that moment my mobile phone began to ring (well i guess phones really dont ring anymore, it was the C’mon down theme song from the Price is Right, but that’s beside the point.) It was a friend of ours. “Hey BJ what’s going on at your place… we saw all the cops” Right then I tunred to my left and saw two Police officers at our front door . “Yikes I’m not sure I’ll call you back” Aileen and I jump out of the car up to the porch “thats our place is something wrong” Immediatly I wondered about our pets and our neighbor downstairs. After a few minutes of verifying who we were to the cops, we learned that Aileen’s car was broken into and taken for a joy ride by a meth addict/dealer who was presently being pursued on foot. somewhere about a mile away. He had ditched the car after being cornered into an apt complex parking lot. On foot he dropped down from a 20ft wall slicing his head open to the bone. It was several blocks from there when he was finally taken down. When all was clear at the scene aileen and I were escorted in a police cruiser to her car to check for damage answer questions and eventually reclaim the car. The car was fine, nothing was taken, yet he had rummaged through and left the inside a mess. He also left a back pack full of narcotics, needles, meth, cds and a keyring loaded with 50 or so generic master keys used for getting into cars. Go figure. None the less they got the idiot and Aileen has her car back. We then proceeded to get some Mexican food and drink! Aileen has been instructed to thouroughly clean her car very carefully with saftey gloves. SHe was told she may find some needles in there and quite possibly more drugs. What a day! It’s funny when you get those weird feelings. None the less, welcome back to Denver Aileen!.
I spent a long weekend in in Ohio and didn’t get a drop of rain but when I got back to Denver, rain rain rain. They are talking a foot or two in the mts so that could mean a great start for the ski season. Anyway, Tony’s wedding was a blast. Everyone had a great time and I know they are thouroughly enjoying themselves in Jamacia right now. For everyone else we have this
Well first things first. If you plan to take a trip to a more remote part of the country… Do not, I repeat DO NOT use Google Maps. We used it to steer us towards The Graet Sand Dunes national Park and unfortunatly it used roads that most of us wouldn’t expect. After driving about 15 miles (90min) on pure insanity we had to turn back and find another way. A 4hr trip turned into an 8 hr trip. My friend looked up the directions a little more when we came home on Sunday and he sent me the following: “I looked on the maps to see where you guys would have gone if you kept following the road on the way to the park on Friday, and it would have turned into the jeep trail that snakes through the park. But get this, it would have taken you over the continental divide on that mountain we were looking at from camp Sat. night with the snow on it! It’s supposed to be a real rugged jeep trail that only very high clearance trucks can use.” … Ha! Despite that the Dunes were Awesome! I can’t wait to go back… such a sureal experience. Oh yeah we also hit up some crazy gator farm in the area and had an interesting Experience at a local Hot Springs Spa. (you’ll have to ask about that one) It was a great weekend despit the driving. I took a few pictures, you can find them here. Tomorrow Aileen, Mat and I are flying back to Ohio for Tony’s wedding. I’m looking forward to seeing the Family and spending a few days in Ohio. We’ll be in Akron, Columbus and Cincy… hmm more driving, Great!
Some guy made an upright bass with scraps of wood, weed wacker twine and some radio shack science project for a pickup. Pretty Cool! Check it out
Well apparently our friend Google is using their new game “Google Image Labeler” as a way to get proper tags attached to Images that come up via thier image search. I guess a user goes head to head against another ransom user and has a certain amount of time to give as many words as they can think of that explains a random image that is displayed. Any time a word a user inputs matches a word entered by the user they are paired up with, a point is awarded. Google then takes taht word and ates it to the image search data. Clever.
I guess it’s suppose to be a day of rest. How come I feel more rested today sitting at my desk than I did at any point yesterday? Sigh, i was certainly kept busy most of Labor Day. AIleen’s parents flew into town in the morning and the rest of the day was driving and walking around Denver. They are in for Aileen’s graduation ceremony which occurs this afternoon. At least I get to rest this coming weekend… well not really, we’re hitting the sandunes…