White Water Rafting update: BROWN CANYON COLORADO

SO... about white water rafting in Montana... yeah... not so much... we arrived early in the morning at Mt. Rushmore to have breakfast, but it was entirely covered in fog... and the weather only got worse... so we were forced to abandon our trip to Montana... The guide for our raft trip called and told us it would be unsafe at the current water levels (by the way... there was a story today of a raft full of people who died rafting in montana over the weekend!) and that they had 8 inches of fresh snow on the ground to boot...

After some soul searching... and some free wifi access at a gas station, Tom (our fearless trip leader) and I had found and secured a new rafting location...

the good news...

it was 9 hours south of where we were currently parked thus warmer...

the bad news: it was nine hours south from our current location... which meant another 9 hours in a van we had already occupied for 20 hours at this point. Since it was this or turn back... drive some more we did...

We finally arrived at our new destination where we found a hotel and rafted the arkansas river. We did one cold day of rafting through Brown canyon... and then a gorgeous day in the Royal Gorge. The highlight was in the royal gorge: We were dominating some class 4-5 rapids at the bottom of a 1300 ft canyon, right under the world's largest suspension bridge, when a passenger train stopped to take a look and then a helicopter flew through right over our heads... all that was missing was a hot air balloon and life would have pretty much been complete....

One final adventure was the way home... at 4:30 or so in the AM, while I was driving the graveyard shift through Iowa a bunch of deer were hanging out in the middle of the road... luckily I avoided hitting them... but apparently they were quite offended that I didnt say hi, so one of the deer decided to jump into the side of Mike's van while we were going 75 MPH... no real damage though...

White Water Rafting....

Hey I am taking a little road trip to Bozeman Montana to go white water rafting... I cannot even begin to tell you how excited I am to be away from the office for a few days...

Plus, last I heard, the snow melt is making for some awesome rapids... !!!

Are you Rich or Poor? The answer may surprise you...

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This presentation is based on Data from 2005... it needs to be updated and the sources need to be cited. I will hopefully put up an updated version soon.

Tegan and Sara @ the Pabst

Last night I rocked out at the Pabst along with Tegan and Sara and my friends Bethany, Jo, LT, TT, Molly, and of course Emily. It was really great fun.

I have been a fan of Tegan and Sara ever since Bethany introduced me to the song "I wouldn't like me" about 9 months ago. Since then, I have loved their latest album, as well as catching up on their older stuff.

I got to see them in Chicago in november, and it was fantastic. Their records, although they are awesome too, do not truly tell the story of what an incredible rock band they are...

@ the Pabst, they were also amazing... The best moment of the concert was when Tegan forgot the lines to one of her songs and Sara tried to help her out with it. For like five minutes they kept trying to get it right, and it got more and more funny as they did.

If you haven't checked out T & S yet, you can get their stuff on itunes, or watch a fantastic acoustic set and interview here


(Hey Tegan and Sara's Mom... they were awesome in chicago and milwaukee!)

The Blues have it...

Too Busy...

I think that I know that I am too busy

...when I realize that I am eating entire meals in 2 minutes...

...when I start to be annoyed by routine tasks like brushing my teeth...

...when I find myself driving like I could win a NASCAR race every time I am in my car...

...when I am late to every meeting in my day because I squeezed 10 hours worth of meetings into 6

...when I go to bed late and wake up early to work every day....

...when I forget to even think about weekend plans...

...when my blogs feels like a burden and not an outlet...

... when I lose interest in being creative because it would be too much work...


My pace is so accelerated right now that, even when I could slow down, I am not sure how... Uh... so maybe I am too busy... or maybe I could do just one more thing....

What is your sign of living to fast?

Presentation Series: The New Powerpoint Presentation

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This presentation is from Garr Reynolds of presentation zen, and it is full of good technique. I am posting it here both to remind me of some of his techniques, and to remind to to figure out how he posted this online so I can put some of mine up too...

What do you like in his presentation?