Getting High

So I definately forgot to write about a beautiful trip that I took that my favorite company that I get a paycheck from helped send me on...a training class in Boulder, CO...preceeded by a weekend in Albuquerque, NM, and followed by weekend in Denver , CO...

My friend Jason was getting married, and it just so happened that they planned their wedding around my training schedule, so lucky for me...arriving in NM was definately not quite what I expected...for some reason I had this idea that it was very desolate and run down...definately not...the airport was very new, and getting out on to the highways just seemed like anywhere else, except the view was great! You see some city...and then mountains behind...not mountains hidden by the smog...but clearly visible...

Went for a hike the next day to a place called Tent Rocks National Park...highly recommend it...I've never been up at 7000 before, like I was there...it was a fairly easy hike, about 600 feet, with some scrambling...but what a view...you could see for miles...but not because it's so flat, but because you're above everything! The next day was Sandia Peak...clearly operated by the people who operate Sandia National Labs...clearlly...a tram ride up the mountain takes you past sheer rocks, and some trees on the mountain side. Get to the top, and hike around some more...and get out to a ledge that gives you a view of the entire valley...amazing!

On to Boulder CO, where the people are liberal, and the views are liberally beautiful...the mountains and the women...amazing...

The class was great...and the town better...the mountains breathtaking...a house on top of one of them was an evening well spent...views in the front, back, and the sides too...truly the life that I could get used to!

On to Denver, and to Mt. Evans...14200 feet up in the air...into the clouds, it feels holy up there...a place so pristine...except for the others around! It was a white knuckle drive up, but a fun ride down...postcard pictures all around...

Garden of the Gods...a place so wonderful that words can hardly describe...a natural place where worship seems natural...energy abound...yet peace and quite was plenty to be found...

So if you're looking for a new place to see...NM and CO definately won't disappoint!

B.S.M

Hi everyone...so once again, it's been months since I've written anything. I really did start off the last post with a goal of writing every week...and I meant to keep it. Clearly, I didn't make it! So no such promises this time...but I will try to write more often...how's that for non-committal...

So the topic of this post is the BSM...BS Machine...

We see it all around...on the news, at work, in conversation with friends, acquantiances and enemies alike. Many of us are good at using it, and indeed it does come in useful...a good joke, or a little spice to a conversation ever so bland...we Indians call it "time pass"...

Sadly though, the BSM is usually used for the powers of no good...car dealers, real estate agents, politicians, holier than thou radio personalities, engineers, lawyers, the guy on the radio who tells you that you can make millions from home...okay, so maybe the guy on the radio doesn't really use the BSM...kidding...of course he doesn't, but us engineers never use it for anything but forces of pure goodness!

Okay, okay...seriously though, it's amazing how the truth is manipulated, distorted, twisted, and used to convince you, me, and the guy next door to buy a TV, house, car, and a war...nah...that can't be true, no one would use the BSM to justify a means to an end...nah...never happens.

I suppose that the BSM is just a part of life, we must all learn to use it...hopefully for good uses, and learn to understand when the powerful forces of the BSM are being directed towards us...put up your CSS (common sense shield...of course there's an acronym for everything!)...look the BSM right in the hole...the don't get shot in the face (cuz that'll smell bad!)...and let the forces of the BSM only be used for good...tell a joke, make someone crack up...start up a conversation that makes no sense when you have some extra tears to shed because you wanna laugh that hard...talk about something at the bar that you never have before, and never may again...get people thinking that there's more to life than just what they want to wrap their minds around...change someone's point of view, see a new one yourself...