Colorado: Flight 1 completed!

Flight # 1: San Jose to Denver

Flight miles: 948

Flight time: 2:38

I've actually always liked this flight. I think 2 and a half hours is about as long as I can comfortably handle being on a plane. The bonus is that flying into Denver International coming over the Rockies is always spectactular, no matter how many times I've done it. Everyone here is a little disapointed, what with the Rockies getting swept in the World Series but, oh well, it's only baseball people! I obviously didn't get oriented properly, I managed to pour the cream for my coffee onto my cereal this morning...I don't recomend it. We had dinner in Boulder tonight, I highly recomend it to anyone. It's kind of like being in California, only with REAL Mountains looming over your head. For the advenrurous, go to the Dark Horse restaurant just outside the University of Colorado and order the Jiffy Burger...yes, that is a Burger with peanut butter. My revue? Not as bad as you might think.

As a bonus, please see the attached very unflattering self-portrait from the airplane. Cheers from Broomfield, CO!

SCC goes on the road!

I think my real calling in life is to be a travel writer. Earlier this week I received an email from United Airlines telling me to be sure to check the status of my 11 upcoming flights. My first thought after reading that email was..."11, why does it go up to 11?!" After that, I thought it would be a good opportunity to give you all who may be interested a little peak into Brian's life on the road. I'll be taking 11 flights in 17 days, during which I'll make 10 changes in sleeping arrangements and change time zones 7 times.

So, here I go...I'm at San Jose International waiting to board flight #1, we'll see how we do here, it should be spectacularly interesting in a fantastically boring way.

SCC becomes more self-aware!

OK, here's an embarrassing story about myself. I like to think of myself as a pretty capable person, able to accomplish simple tasks with ease. Of course, many of you who know me will know that is not entirely true but I am capable of the self-deception...until now. Here is situation:

Exhibit A) We love coffee and require it in the mornings
Exhibit B) We no longer own a coffee grinder so we require "ground" coffee when purchasing from our local Safeway
Exhibit C) I should be able to remember this and actually purchase "ground" coffee when doing the family grocery shopping

Normally I am able to remember all of this, but last weekend I was sent out to get groceries and came back with, wouldn't you know it, whole bean coffee. Oh well, we all make mistakes. I tried again, went to Safeway specifically for ground coffee, went to the shelf and managed to pick up exactly the same bag of whole bean coffee

Exhibit D) I am not a detail-oriented person and have accepted this fact now.

Brian

P.S.- Minor celebrity spotting! While dining at Aqui's Downtown Campbell last weekend we saw Mike Ricci crossing the street! For those of you who don't know who Mike Ricci is, watch more hocky!

Peace out

SCC Rudely Awakened!

Sorry, it's been a while since I wrote, we tried to find those Pyramids but after much searching the best we could do was a visit to the Frye's on Hamilton...oh well.

In any case, I'm really writing to tell you all a fun story that happened last week. I was fast asleep, dreaming about something when, in my dream, there was a knock on the door and I freaked out and woke up. I was relieved that this was just a dream until I heard a real knock on our front door! It was almost midnight, so this was certainly unprecendented...being still half asleep and coming out of the nightmare my heart was doing a pretty good rythmn when I got to the door and opened it to find...the maintenance man! Okay, so not so dramatic, but the conversation went:


"Do you own a green VW Passat?"


"Um...yes?"


"You need to move it right now, the parking structure is about to collapse"


"OK, I guess I'll do that then"


So, this is how I ended up grabbing my keys and heading out to the parking lot to see what had happened. Apparently, some real bright member of our society, had failed to negotiate the curve in the road behind our complex and had taken his red pick-up and barreled through the fence, taken out a concrete pole, then plowed through one of the support beams holding up our parking structure before demolishing a parked car and finally smashing into the apartment building itself! No one was hurt besides the driver who apparently was taken to the hospital, check out the pictures below of the now propped up structure and the offending truck. Not a bad way to spend a Tuesday night/Wednesday morning!