Moving

The past few weeks have been pretty hectic for me. As soon as I accepted a job, I started packing all my stuff to get ready to move out of the cabin. I had to start early, because I've been out of town for the last two weeks.

The week before Thanksgiving, my dad flew into Denver. We went snowboarding one day (my first day of the season, but nothing great since we hadn't gotten much snow recently), then headed off to Utah for an Wilderness Life Support course. It was held near Zion National Park, which is a beautiful area in southwest Utah. The course was very similar to my Outdoor Emergency Care course, but geared toward medical professionals (doctors and nurses), so a lot of the information went right over my head. After the conference ended, we had one spare day and decided to drive down to the north rim of the Grand Canyon. I had never been, so it was pretty exciting for me. We also drove over to Lake Powell to see the Glen Canyon Dam. I'll post lots of pictures soon.

My Dad and I in Zion NP.


View from the north rim of the Grand Canyon.


There are a lot of great pictures on my flickr.

I got back to Colorado from Utah Monday evening, and on Tuesday morning flew out to Kentucky. I didn't go home for Thanksgiving last year (you may recall I ate Thanksgiving dinner at the Plume Saloon), so it was great to be home with my family and see my relatives that came in town.

My schedule this week gets even busier. I flew back to Colorado Sunday evening, picked up the U-haul truck and trailer (for my Jeep) Monday morning and have most of my stuff already loaded into the truck. I'm picking up my mom from the Denver airport Tuesday evening and we're leaving for Oregon Wednesday morning. We've got a 1200 mile drive through the mountains in the middle of winter ahead of us. Should be fun.

My first day of work is next Monday, which I'm very excited about. It'll be nice to have a mentally stimulating job for the first time in the past year-and-a-half.

Job Update

I just accepted a job offer in Oregon. Guess I'll have to change the title of my blog.

Halloween

My pumpkin last year was pretty challenging, but I wanted to make a better one this year. It's really a pumpkin sculpture, because the design goes all the way around it. It took several hours to complete, but I think it turned out pretty cool.

Job Update

This week has already been very busy for me. Over the past three days, I had three interviews for three different positions with two different companies in two different states. When I woke up Wednesday morning for my last interview, there were already ten inches of snow on the ground. The interview was still on, though, so I ate a quick breakfast, pulled waterproof pants and a coat on over my interview clothes, cleared the snow from my Jeep, put her in 4 wheel drive, and set off. I had about 50 miles to drive through the mountains on snow packed roads. It was slow going, but I made it to the interview about 15 minutes early. Dealing with snow is just part of living in the mountains.


I think all of my interviews went pretty well. I should be hearing back form the companies over the next two weeks. With any luck, by the end of the year, I'll have a real engineering job.

Fall Pictures

I just went through my pictures and found some pretty good ones from the fall around here.
This is a panorama I made from pictures taken around 12,000 feet on my way down from the top of Argentine Pass (around 13,000 ft) on the 4 wheeler.

Click the picture for the larger view.

This is the view across the highway from outside the cabin after the last snowfall.


There was a double rainbow over the cabin when I came home from work one day.

Click the picture for a panorama of the rainbow.