travis' brain dump

I should so be asleep right now but I just figured out how to use my blogsite from my new phone. now I feel like I totally wasted some time. ill post more about this in the morning. lol

so what is this… every an every thursday thing or what? lol no, its not about another snowstorm, however we’ve got one coming in (small) however, this morning colorado got a spectacular light show around 6:15am. check it out, ive even got video links!

there’s a video out on fox31 which is absolutely awesome! go check it out:

http://www.myfoxcolorado.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=1961501&version=12&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1

evidently it was something pretty big and pretty easy to break up in the atmosphere, because this sucker came apart pretty well. as much as i hate to make this comparison, it looks like the shuttle columbia did when it came apart back in feb of 2003. really creepy.

anyway, it’s been an interesting week. new years went great – speaking of which, happy new year to everyone! 🙂
another year down… wow… 2007 – you know, when i was a kid I couldn’t fathom hitting the year 2000 and here we are well on our way to 2010. creepy. anyway. i don’t have much to say today. i’ve been busy but nothing too exciting has happened so yeah. lol

*** update on lightshow ***
from www.9news.com

“That incredible thing, according to NORAD, was a SL-4 rocket body that re-entered the atmosphere over Colorado and Wyoming.  NORAD added that it is possible pieces of the object broke off during re-entry over states neighboring Colorado.”

so, i guess that explains why it looked like a rocket coming apart huh? lol so it took the military 4 1/2 hours to come up with that explaination when they supposedly track *EVERYTHING*? hehe that’s funny. regardless of what it was, it was cool none the less.

as if last weeks blizzard that shut down the metro area wasn’t enough, mother nature is at it again.

i’m sitting here in my office in boulder looking out across the foothills and you can see the clouds thickening up and rolling in. the snow is supposed to start falling by around noon to one today and is expected to have dropped in the range of 3-5″ by 5pm. then the real storm hits… overnight expectations are over an inch an hour with expectations of (here’s the fun part) anywhere 8-12″ overnight. here comes friday with an additional 3-5″…. so much for going boarding this weekend… ugh. oh yeah, lets not forget there is a watch in effect from friday night until sunday morning with the possibilitiy of even *MORE* snow, an 80% chance to be exact. so let’s just toss in there an additional 6-10″ of snow for good measure. my prediction for the weekend? by sunday I say we’ll have gotten about 22-28″…

so… with that said. anyone who doesnt feel like being caged up alone over the weekend… the snow party is at my place… again. there will be movies and snowboarding as usual. food and beverages are BYOS (bring your own stuff) as i’m not going to feed an army again. lol if you have snowboarding gear, bring it – you’re probably gonna use it. also bring your season passes, if by some chance we make it out of the house, our first destination is the mountains (weather/road conditions permitting). Mike, if you’re coming up, bring your FFXI discs – we gotta reinstall on the Vista machine…

if you can’t make it up, please be safe and we’ll see you on the other side! lol

pictures will be posted, from both blizzards over the coarse of the weekend… (what else are we gonna do)

T

So, today I was viewing our local news site, 9news.com (specific story link below) and saw a story about a little girl named Ariana Samaras. What a wonderful little girl she is, strong as can be but she’s losing a battle with a tumor in her brain stem. They moved to Colorado to be closer to children’s hospital and help care for Ariana, but she’s not doing so great. I’m sure this has been an incredible load on her family and I hope that everyone here will take the opportunity to help them out this holiday season. On their site they ask if you wish to donate, to donate $1 and pass their site on to your friends. I ask that any of you who can, donate $2 and send it on. I have a daughter not much younger than her and this really hit home for me as it could happen to any of us. If you wish to donate to a foundation the benefits all rather than directly to Ariana’s fund or even both, follow the links below. I hope everyone has had a great holiday today! Please pass this along. 🙂

Travis

9news story:
http://www.9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&IKOBJECTID=b715d9e2-0abe-421a-0082-481d040e57d6&TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf

Ariana’s homepage:
http://www.arianasamaras.com/

Morgan Adams Foundation:
http://www.morganadamsfoundation.org/