Category: Life

Nanda

I can remember when Jack could have used a nanda. He had a simple method of dealing with noisy alarm clocks: he threw them across the room. They usually didn’t last very long.

Minus Eleven

The outside thermometer is registering -11F this morning, which may be the coldest night here since we moved to Colorado. Paradoxically, the bedroom was almost too warm for sleep, since it is right next to the furnace, which was on all night, as far as I could tell.

Powers and Old Ranch

This morning, the Gazette reported

The intersection of Powers and Old Ranch Road now tops the city’s list of the 25 most dangerous intersections while many hot spots from the past year saw fewer crumpled cars and injuries.

This is an intersection I drive past several times a week, and I thought it looked extremely dangerous from before it opened. Powers looks like a limited access highway at that point, and there is very little warning that there is at grade crossing with a signal at the top of the hill. In addition, the drivers on Old Ranch do not have good visibilty to see the traffic that might be approaching on Powers. I wonder if this report will lead the traffic engineers to consider some risk mitigation like flashing lights on Powers to warn of the intersection.

Stock Show

January 17, 2007 – Click on image for higher resolution version.

I saw this magnificent Texas Longhorn steer at the National Western Stock Show in Denver yesterday. Few of my photos turned out, due to my reluctance to use flash photography without warning, so go see Connections and look at her photographs in her blog posts Reminiscing!, Cattle Judging, and Hats, Hardware and Humor. She used to exhibit livestock herself, and writes about her memories.

I had been avoiding Stock Show and similar events for several years, since I didn’t know how strenuous I would find it considering my heel problems. However, although I was exhausted when I got home last night, I rated my pain as a two this morning. Since most mornings these days I rate the pain as two to four (on a scale of one to ten) I was quite pleased.