The last few days

Oh man.

I'll just start at Friday afternoon. I've been taking support calls, starting this week. There's a lower call volume, and most of the questions are pretty simple or just telling the user "pay us $95/hr to fix it or RTFM."

Around 4p, Craig picks up one of the empty growlers from the bookcase, and he heads out to Rock Bottom to pick up some beer for Beer Friday. Cool - I was used to free beer every quarter, but I think I can manage with every Friday. After work, I rode down to Market Street Station and picked up a 10-ride ticketbook. I'd actually been riding RTD for free most of the week. Riding the singlespeed around downtown is a lot of fun. Riding it is fun in general, but the hills can quickly kick my ass - especially through the DTC. I enjoyed riding through the DTC - it's almost totally empty on the weekends, so no cars to bother you on these big open roads.

When I got home on Friday afternoon, Logan and I were hungry, so we drove about five or six miles down to Park Meadows to the closest Buffalo Wild Wings. (No Jim's! emo tears.) We watched some of the Olympic opening ceremonies, but the transmission (coming from downtown Denver) was getting garbled. Apparently, there was a huge storm headed our way. As we left the building, facing west, I saw nothing but dark clouds. Something like, "holy shit." Then, we got around to the other side of the establishment, and saw the dark, hell-like vortex ripping open the sky like goatse on crack to the northeast.

We started the drive home, and decided it might be fun to head downtown and get some pictures. We got on RTD at Yale Station. Logan didn't bring a jacket and I was wearing my crappy shoes, so we both got relatively soaked. Both the TVMs were broken because of the rain, so Logan couldn't buy a ticket. Oh well, right?

We were leaving the Colfax / Auraria station, and had to cross over Cherry Creek, which was entirely flooded. It was awesome, there were emergency vehicles everywhere once we got downtown. We headed into the building, because Logan wanted to take some pictures from the 7th floor, and I needed to pick up a phone.

A bit later, we got home and I pretty much just went straight to bed. Today, I got up around 10 or 11 (I completely value weekends now) and headed down to Target. I love how I used to complain that it was a two mile drive down Horsetooth to get there. Now, I have to get on I-25 south, drive about 4 miles, exit Arapahoe, then do the same in reverse. I picked up a baking sheet, a knife, and some washcloths. Went to Safeway and got breakfast items - eggs, biscuits, gravy mix, muffins...the works. Made up some biscuits 'n' gravy, then watched Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay, which turned out better than I'd hoped. It was long, but it didn't slow down.

Later, I was bored and decided to go for a bike ride. Turns out, I rode about 9 miles. Pretty fun. When I got back, I took a shower and Kevin showed up. We went down to Micro Center, Kevin needed a new fan for his graphics card. On the way home, we stopped at King Sooper's for some grocery shopping. I picked up fried chicken, Boulder slaw, and a Cherry Coke. I thought about getting a Cherry Pepsi, but Jennifer would have disowned me. Paul would likely have as well.

We got home, had dinner, played around in the cul-de-sac, and in a few minutes, we'll head downtown for stuff.