Archive for 2007/10


Drug busts and extended hotel stays

Yesterday I arrive at the hotel around 5:15 pm.  As I pull into the parking lot I notice that there are 3 people, 2 of them carrying firearms looking in a car that is parked right next to my wifes.  Oh and there’s a dog that looks like it’s part German Shepherd.  The dog sort [...]

The Kingdom

If you are looking for a movie to go and see…go see The Kingdom.  You learn more in the first 2 minutes about the whole oil stuff that’s going on in the middle east that I’m sure you have reading the paper every day for the past 2 years.  Very informative in the opening credits. [...]

Twit Boy

This morning I awake at 7:30.  I feed the cats, use the john and get the coffee going.  As I wait for the coffee I sit at the computer catching up on e-mails.  Tonks our large cuddly cat wants into the room to sleep with my wife.  Frodo, aka Twit Boy, comes and slides up [...]

2 minutes

Yesterday I timed my drive from the office back to our temporary home.  It took 2 minutes.  I really like that.  However it doesn’t allow me time to listen to my podcasts like I want to.  The new house will be very similar in the fact that it will probably take about 3-5 minutes to [...]

Day 16 (or whatever day it might be!): Work

Well it’s been 3 days at work.  Like quitting a job and starting a job it’s rather boring at the moment.  I have however been able to make myself useful which is always good.  Tomorrow the boss will be back from vacation, so I’m guessing things will pick up at that point.
We went back over [...]

Day 14 & 15: Friendly

Since we have been back west (all of 1 week and 1 day!) we have noticed how friendly people are out here.  By this I mean when your grocery shopping and you need to get around people and you say “excuse me” they say “oh sorry” or something like that.  I could go on with [...]

Day 13: Estes Park

Yesterday morning the wind finally calmed down. By calmed down I mean that it went from 50 mph gusts to a constant 10-20 mph wind. This is Wyoming I guess!
So after a breakfast in Mildreds (the motel diner) we headed south into Colorado. We are only 7 miles from the Colorado border. [...]

Day 12: Only in Wyoming..

Will you see a Lexus SUV with a cattle guard on it!  We went out to Outback last night for a celebratory dinner and as we came out, parked across from the Jeep was exactly that.
Since we have found a house and there’s nothing else we can do until we sign the papers (10/31) we [...]

Day 11: We have a house!

The offer we put in on a house last night was accepted this morning.  So we now have a house here in Cheyenne. We are excited about it.  It’s a nice place in an established neighborhood not to far away from a elementary school.  The inside is practically brand new.  Nice wood floors and large [...]

Day 10: More looking

I’m a bit late in posting this.  Yesterday we went and looked at yet more houses.  However unlike the other days where nothing was really what we were looking for we found one that we liked and put in an offer on it.  We should know later today if they will accept our offer or [...]