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.



PS
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

Wild West Photos

My New Ride!

I am now part of the problem. I didn’t wake up yesterday mad at the planet! I wasn’t thinking what can I do to stick my finger in the eye of nature, but that’s kinda what I’m doing. I know this and I’m OK with it. I bought an Explorer yesterday and I love it! It’s a 2000, V8, 4x4, leather seats, plus a lot of other bennies that just make it fun to ride. Most of all I’m excited that I can now give more than one person a ride at a time.

Colorado Update!

So I’m in Colorado working on another political campaign (shocker I know!). I’ll save the campaign details for you political junkies in a one-on-one exchange.

Anyway, I love it out here! I can’t believe how spoiled I’ve gotten in such a short period of time. In the two months I’ve been here it’s been sunny and 70-90 degrees just about every day. The only time it wasn’t sunny and warm it snowed, but then it was 80 the next day so I forgave Mother Nature for it.


This week, the big news was we had two cloudy days in a row and it reminded me of being back east. The locals here claim that we get over 300 sunny days a year and so far it seems to be true. I do miss the food, people and cultural icons of the east, but for now I’m soaking up nature’s best.

As you can see in these pics I was in a car accident and totaled my truck. I was moving through a green light and this huge truck didn’t see me or his red light and plowed into my driver’s side. I’m extremely lucky because if he hit just six inches up I would have been in pretty rough shape (a.k.a. flat).

My memory has been shot all week and its felt like I’ve got a bad case of “shaken babe syndrome.” I escaped with only a few cracked ribs, a tiny bit of internal bleeding and a concussion. It was a relief today to find out that’s all that was wrong with me, well medically speaking anyway.

Since the other guy was totally at fault his insurance company is taking care of just about everything. I’m car shopping now and will show you pics of my new ride when I get it.

OK, I’m off to take it easy and rest up.