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Some signs that you are no longer in Sacramento, but in Denver

• It’s not over 100 degrees and its in the middle of August
• It’s only in the mid 60’s and its in the middle of August
• Daily thunderstorms
• Tornado warnings
• Flash floods
• Lightning that lights up your room in the middle of the nights
• Dogs going nuts in the middle of the night because of the thunder and lightning

So, apparently, Denver actually has some weather during the summer, such as freaking thunderstorms!

Finally got around to processing some of the photos I took while we were up in Tahoe for the 4th of July

Tahoe Flickr Screen Shot

Over 1200 miles later we made it to Denver from Sacramento on Wednesday. The drive through Nevada and Utah was extremely boring. We stopped over and stayed the night in Salt Lake City but the city smelled bad and was overall just disappointing considering you have to drive over 100 miles east into Utah to finally reach any sort of civilization. From SLC we went up into Wyoming which was much more interesting. We also drove right into the middle of a cool thunder storm that had a ton of lightning and some heavy rain. About 5 minutes after you get into Colorado you finally start to encounter decent sized towns and cities. More to come as we explore Denver.

We are now officially on our way to Denver and should be there by Wednesday afternoon. Goodbye California, hello Colorado. The adventure begins!

Made my first big e-mail gaffe - imported my gmail contacts to LinkedIn and accidentally sent invites to everyone!

Kallie and I are checking out Denver for the weekend. So far, the city looks nice.

Got some big news at work yesterday - I can transfer to Denver or lose my job. So it looks like we are moving to Denver!

We finally rented a movie (Lars and the Real Girl - very good, highly recommend) and hooked the laptop up to the TV, a 42 inch HDTV 1080p. Used a DVI to HDMI cable and the picture was pretty good. It wasn’t HD, since Apple only allows HD rentals on Apple TV, but the movie was DVD quality. The only issue was the time it took to download, which was about 2 hours, and I plan AT&T more then Apple on that. My neighborhood is wired with fiber and I want a fiber speeds, not crappy DSL!

The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera would make a great backyard telescope for viewing Mars, and we can also use it at Mars to view other planets. This is an image of Earth and the moon, acquired on October 3, 2007, by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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