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Sun baked.

The Knighthawk — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:35:02 +0000

Spent most of the weekend outside baking in the sun. Believe it or not it was quite nice. Saturday we hung out at the Tour De Fat just down the road from us at City Park. Lot’s of insanity, people dressed up, wacky sideshows and a plethora of interesting new concepts in bicycle riding. On Sunday I went with a friend to the Rockies game which epitomized insanity when an afternoon shower blew through. Check out the Video here. Now that was insane. In the evening AK and I headed up to the Boondocks to go to Boondocks. Played some mini golf and vowed to return for the go-karts.

One Hot Weekend

The Knighthawk — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:42:39 +0000

With the temps this weekend nearing 100 all three days, much of it was spent indoors. I used some of that to rearrange the office as well as some necessary cleaning. I wanted to spend more time out back doing some yard work, but man it was hot. All this heat, sun and no rain has pretty much turned my lawn brown. The piece of crap sprinkler and the lack of hose to reach the front didn’t help either. Yesterday I picked up a new sprinkler, some Revive, and a 50′ hose extension. After the application of the revive and with the new sprinkler, I was finally able to efficiently water the front and back lawn. Now it’s a matter of daily watering and waiting.

Finally Friday

The Knighthawk — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:22:51 +0000

Going into it, I knew this week was going to be a rough one. I had a bunch of stuff planned at work back to back followed by fairly eventful evenings each day. The unpredictable Wet Tuesday and the incidents that followed didn’t make it any better. Needless to say the end of the work week is finally in view. I have the Research and Creative Activities Symposium to shoot this afternoon and then only a warm and sunny weekend to look forward to. Finally Friday!

Where is the stink coming from?

The Knighthawk — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:54:24 +0000

The last few days here in the Denver Metro area has just plain stunk outside. Yes a wretched smell resembling roadkill, thawed garbage and vomit. Our original surmise to this odor had to do with the thawing of countless feet of snow we recieved the past month which was also thawing all the garabage and various crap that lay hidden underneath. It was extremely bad yesterday evening as I was leaving work. I actually had to cover my face I couldnt tolerate it. Of course it’s Pollution! When I did get home i realized that teh temperature had also dropped 10 degrees. Hmm maybe it isnt the thaw but something more weather system related. Sure enough: Pollution and Inversion! [Read More Link]

Scottish Invasion

The Knighthawk — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:23:53 +0000

I took off Thursday and Friday to go skiing with two friends that have been visiting for the last week and a half. It was a great time and we skied pretty hardcore. The best part is that we avoided the bitter cold that hit the Denver area last week. While the metro area was getting frozen to death with sub zero highs we basked in the Sunny 30′s all weekend. Who’d a thunk it that driving up into the mountains an additional 4,000 feet would bring warmer weather? Needless to say I am back in Denver and it’s still pretty cold. 9 degrees as I type this. I’ve been loving the winter here in Colorado so far. It feels like Ohio in December and January.

Denver Can’t Handle the Snow

The Knighthawk — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:37:36 +0000

From my previous post and more likely all the press, it was evident that Denver got hit pretty hard last week with the famed Holiday Blizzard. The drifting and stranded motorists, livestock etc in the eastern plains of Colorado… that was real. On the other hand, the maybe 24 inches that we received downtown… It by no means should have shut the city down the way that it did. It’s scary to think what would happen if a real blizzard came for a visit. Growing up in Buffalo and Northeast Ohio, I’ve been though my share of Blizzards and well, the stuff we saw in Denver last week would have been laughed off in the Great Lakes area.

Blizzard in Denver!

The Knighthawk — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 05:36:44 +0000

We were snowed in for two days. Here’s our video. [link]