Snowed In

***UPDATE***
I'm sorry to say that I will NOT make it home for Christmas. The airlines are already at near capacity for the next few days including Christmas and simply wont be able to add most of us whose flights were cancelled due to the blizzard. I'm sad I wont get to make it home for the holidays to be with my family and friends, but the spirtit of Christmas lives on and am looking forward to the holiday nonetheless.

Christmas makes me reflect on how lucky I am to have had so many amazing people in my life. I'm gratefull for all of them even ones I haven't seen for a while, are not speaking too currently, or will not spend time this holiday. I'm grateful to all of you that've you've blessed my life. Thank you!!!
****OLD POST****
So we've been hit by a blizzard.I was supposed to fly home tomorrow morning for Christmas and the airport is closed until at least tomorrow night at 7:00. They say we'll get at least two feet of snow and they are not sure if I can another flight home before Christmas.





So far Denver's gotten 24 inches of snow and Boulder has 33 inches of snow. My area got a little less. My car and other areas weren't as bad as it could have been because the wind was so strong it blew a lot of the snow off.


Here are some pics of the roads a block from my apt. The sun has started to come out and it is getting better. I am so gratful I didn't get stuck in the airport like so many people and that I have a grocery store two blocks from my apt. as well.





I've been looked up in my apt all day and clearly I need something constructive to do with myself.

Life after the campaign!

As the excitement and drama of the campaign fad, I’m beginning to put my life back together. Having done this a few times now, it’s surprisingly a similar experience regardless of weather you win or not (we lost this time). It takes time for me to learn how to have normal relations with people again as my blood pressure slowly returns to normal. What do you talk about if you’re not talking a candidate/ staff/ volunteer off of the edge, debunking the latest attack, bitching about the lack of proper media coverage, or struggling to stop a train wreck of campaign activity from happening?


I visited DC and Boston with Rosia. I have to say it was so nice to get away and be reminded that I had life before the campaign and will have another one now that it’s over. It was also great to see my family and old friends! My twin brother has turned into a computer geek and I couldn’t be more proud of him for it!




My biggest surprise of the trip is the degree to which I missed Boston. Up until the moment we stepped out of Logan airport I was fully prepared to return to Colorado and begin my life as non-political hack living the life of a happy Coloradian. I’ve started to learn to ski and have slowed down everyone who has taken me hiking, but I loved it nonetheless. The low cost of living and 300+ sunny days a year here go a long way in making me happy.

Yet, as much of a shock as it was to me, I cannot deny that after spending just a couple of days back in Boston I felt more at home and more excited about a city then I have in a long time. Boston has so many unique qualities that it’s hard to list them all here, but I was taken back by the architecture, culture, food, and energy of the City. Boston is easily the most beautiful city I’ve ever been too.



I was excited about living in Colorado because I wanted to live in the mountains. I wanted the experience of looking up everyday at those beautiful and amazing works of nature and be reminded that “oh yeah, there is something much bigger then me at work here.” Boston and Colorado are too different to even compare and I can’t say with any certainty where I’ll be in three months, but I’m throwing it out there that the temptation to move back east has set in!

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More pics to come

Nail-biter!

So I haven’t shaved, slept or been able to sit still since the election. Right now out of 1.5 million votes cast we are down by 31,000 votes; however there are any where from 66,000-100,000 votes still to be counted in heavily democratic Denver County. Denver has been breaking for us at a rate of 70% so if the actual number of votes left to be counted is 80,000 or greater we will win, if it’s less we will lose by less then 5,000 votes.

Wild Weather

This is the picture I text messaged my boss yesterday morning in case he was wondering why I wasn’t in the office yet. Wednesday was a normal Colorado day, sunny, clear and about 70 degrees. Late Wed. night, and into Thursday morning, we had a blizzard. Yeah, that’s right a blizzard. Some areas got as much as 18 inches of snow.

It wasn’t the first snow we’ve gotten this year, but it came so fast that our office building didn’t have time to turn the heat on, so Thursday we had the AC blowing full blast.

The difference between wintry weather here in Colorado verses back east is that today its back to being sunny, clear and in the high sixties. I still can’t get over how sunny it is here despite the crazy fits of snow. It’s like the best of both worlds here. We get the picturesque quality of snow, but none of the mess cause it’s gone in a day or two. Here is our candidate and another staffer blowing off some steam earlier today. Not even 24 hours laters and its hard to tell we had any snow at all

New Video

I try not to put to much about the campaigns I work on here, but I thought you all might enjoy this video we just did. We sent this out to our 70,000 plus email list and have gotten some media coverage from it. We've also raised several thoudsand dollars off this video too. I hope yall like it, our TV commercial will use some of this footage but will be cut down to 30 seconds and have some above water shots of Ken too.



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it's subtitled but there is music and some talking so turn up your volume!

Light at the end of the tunnel!!!

We’ve got about a month to go before Election Day and I can’t believe it’s almost over. I wont bore you with the campaign details, but all I can say is it’s a total toss up. We might win we might lose. Part of me is just ready for it to be over so I can return to a somewhat normal life (well as close as I’ll ever get). Part of me is also scared that without a campaign and something worth fighting for my life will become mundane. It would definitely be nice to make more money, but I need to feel good about what I’m doing. I want to know that I’m helping people or making a difference in the world.

Hopefully all this will make more sense when I’m getting eight hours of sleep a night and not always stressing about how much money we’re are going to report. Anyway if yall have any words of wisdom for me don’t be shy I’m all ears!

Here are some more pics from the road:

Change of Heart

So last weekend I met Al Gore at a book signing. I still haven't seen his movie or read his book yet, but just hearing him speak made me feel guilty about my new SUV. Well that and the fact that I was spending more on gas then rent.


So when I actually met Al Gore I was a little taken back by the fact that he was flirting with my girlfriend, and then he totally ignored me. Whatever, I still dig his message and am not holding a grudge.

This is my new ride. It’s a Cadillac Catera. It’s not great on gas, but it’s a hell of a lot better then I was paying and it’s got a lot less miles then the SUV. I'm happy with it.

Top of the world!

I was at a retreat this weekend up in the mountains. It was amazing! I passed over the continental divide and stopped off at Rocky Mountain National Park. These photos don't even come close to doing the views justice.

Every drop of rain or melted snow on the west side of the divide eventually will flow to the Pacific Ocean and everything on the east side of the divide ends up in the Atlantic Ocean.

Eastside view

Westside view

Here are some pics from RMNP again not even close to doing it justice. The white stuff on here is snow and ice that's right snow and ice still around at the end of July!!!

More Wild West Pics