I’m going to be in Den­ver for a cou­ple of days. Why? Well, I decided to have Peggy ship my Nikon D100 SLR out. The camp­ing gear takes up too much space, and I decided I’d rather take pic­tures than hike. I wouldn’t be able to go on a multi day hike with my expen­sive cam­era gear on my bike, and, well, I think I’d just rather take pic­tures. I’m not sure it’s the right answer, but I had to make the call. So, I await my cam­era in Denver.

Jay and Chris are sell­ing their house

which adds a lot of odd energy to this stay. For instance, yes­ter­day we had to be out of the house for sev­eral hours while the house was being shown. Not that big of a deal, except for they own a whole squadron of lit­tle dogs (four.) Enter­tain­ing lit­tle dogs isn’t quite as much fun as enter­tain­ing chil­dren. Well, chicks dig 5 year olds more than shak­ing dogs. I’m here as much to spend time with Jay and Chris, not pick up girls, so what we do doesn’t mat­ter too much.

We did a lit­tle bit of house hunt­ing. It’s always inter­est­ing to see what houses from dif­fer­ent mar­kets sell for. It seems like every house we looked at had a sep­a­rate bath and shower. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it in Seat­tle. Seems like a good idea. Over­all houses seem to be quite a bit cheaper in Den­ver than in Seat­tle, but I haven’t seen the whole market.

Den­ver has been hot, hot, hot. And dry. I’ve had sev­eral nose bleeds since I’ve been here. Chris has them all the time — I don’t know how he deals with it. I’m look­ing for­ward to leav­ing Den­ver so this doesn’t hap­pen any more.