And now, your monthly summer post

you know what i think it is? I think there is just too much to do in the summer months. That's why you just don't see us popping up as much, you can just take to heart that we are out hiking and climbing and otherwise getting as far away from computers as often as possible.

A few weekends ago we were back up at the Beehive Buttress with the Calders, where Liz was leading and redpointing everything in sight... (pictoral proof here and here, and Kate backs that statement up over here..) We caught dinner with some middleville and Michigan State friends a few weeks back, managed to help a few friends move, ate a lot of ice cream, and have been receiving a good number of houseguests, as well. Tiffany was up from Denver, Lindsey and Brandon Overstreet, some old Ponderosa coworkers were out from their Summer in Jackson, and we just put Rev. Bob Russell on plane pointed back to Santa Cruz just last night.


Bob was out for just the weekend, due entirely to a guilt trip we laid on him for having a number of available days off from his new employment and by his own admission an embarassing new paycheck. We made sure to hit all of the requirements for officially touring Fort Collins: The Olive Street Bakery for pastries, New Belgium for some free beer, Coops for burgers, Lucille's for breakfast and even managed to hike Greyrock Mountain in between all of these different foodstuffs. (Pics from the Saturday hike over here..)

So, back to work as of this morning. My work has kept me more than busy of late, which i suppose is another reason that the blog has been a little vacant. I was in Vernal, Utah for two days last week in preparation of a pair of stations that we will be installing out there in the coming weeks, and we're also gearing up to put a tower down in Crested Butte in September. (it's rough) Liz is back to work now as well, and as of last week the kids are back in school too.

I suppose to get the full update completed - we switched our phone carriers this month from Verizon to AT&T for the coveted iPhone.... (if you have AT&T, let us know. We can talk to you for free now. Sorry old verizon friends) We bought our plane tickets for christmas, flying into Detroit on the 20th and out on the 30th if i remember correctly.


The olympics are now over, and we have managed to catch a lot of it thanks to the magic of Tivo - we squished 8 hours of Saturday coverage into a single hour of viewing at the end of the day last night. Table tennis is crazy. It was much more enjoyable than i can honestly remember it being in the past, and even though i heard Ann Arbor being name dropped more times than Phelps got medals, it was still a great games. And now, as that ends, the Democratic National Convention begins down in Denver today. It's really quite odd to listen to national news coverage doing interviews in the Brown Hotel and talk about how tall the city of Denver is. Part of me wants to head down there sometime this week and see the scrum with my own eyes, but the other (rational) side of me is ok just sitting an hour north and avoiding it all together. Though we would absolutely love to be able to get to see Obama's acceptance speech on Thursday night, but I've heard that tickets to that are as hard to come by as a ticket to the moon.

Ok, time to go to work. on the real.