Archive for July, 2004

So We End As We Began

Sunday, July 25th, 2004

I closed the show this year. First time ever–the last two trips I’ve had to leave early on Sunday to make a plane. Scheduled it so I could stay to the end this year; the trade off being that I get back to Denver at 0230 tomorrow.
Normally people start to pack up early [...]

Readers Anonymous

Sunday, July 25th, 2004

I need help.
I arrive at the airport, two bags on arrival having become four during the course of the week. I check in, shedding two of the bags. I get through security, and the woman at security nearly kills herself trying to lift my second carry-on off the conveyer belt. I waddle [...]

Joe Helfrich, CIA

Friday, July 23rd, 2004

I had an invite to the Diamond Select party tonight, with the lovely Amber Benson as special guest. So I made my way up to the autograph table, and she did a doubletake.
It seems she’d seen my camera bag on my belt, and thought it was a holster. “I though you were CIA or something” [...]

Traveling Again

Wednesday, July 21st, 2004

We head west towards the ocean. In the far distance is a thin line of blue below the broad dome of blue; sky meets ocean and blends into a featureless field. But clouds cover much of the ocean between us and that magic point, hanging over the city, indistinguishable from a great mass [...]

Raining death upon my coworkers.

Friday, July 9th, 2004

Programmers who consistently write buggy code make me want to take ballpeen hammers to their knuckles, but they do not motivate be to complain in my blog.
Programers and sys admins pointing fingers at each other, each claiming that the other is responsible for the new application going down like a two dollar hooker do not [...]

The Mountains Win Again

Tuesday, July 6th, 2004

So. Another Fourth gone, and here I remain.
Some differences this year. After at least six years of trying, I finally made the Blues Traveller show at Red Rocks. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for years, but something always got in the way; trips home, money, work.
It was a good show. [...]

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