mullerb's musings

The long way around, 5 miles, clockwise. Watched a glider doing repeat drops and landings and decided to stop at the club office to see what the cost is to get a license to glide. Hmmmmm, might need to do it this year!

A marathon 1800 mile drive to Cottonwood with a swing to southeastern Arizona and central New Mexico to get home. Left on Tues. eve Dec 23 in order to avoid the incoming winter storm, progged to hit the Frontrange on Wed. Missed all but a few flurries heading over Raton Pass. Crashed at Comfort Inn in Santa Fe. and woke up Wed AM to iced over roads and a few inches of fresh. Wwe walked the old town square and visited the Georgia OKeafe gallery before heading west again by noon. No snow to speak of for the rest of the drive. Spent a few pleasant days visiting with my parents while stuffing face on cheese fondue and fondue bourgenogne and squeezing a nice hike in above Sycamore Canyon. Took off to the south on Sat. AM to hit up the Superstitions for a hike in the PM. Then over towards Tuscon for a short, surprise visit with Julie Bram, Norma's boyfriend at the time of her passing. Camped at Catalina State Park. Sun. AM walked the Sonoran Desert Museum then drove east to Chicarua Na...

Just a short to get some air and then a pump in the gym.

Lame! I spaced out the fact that I had a meeting at 1PM. With the warm temps, I got all psyched to ride and left the office at 12:40. By the time I got up a ways north out of town on 36, I realized that I totally spaced out the PMG meeting! A quick email to apologize and another mile to the north before turning around to get back.

Our first ski of the year. Corona opened today and the coverage was great! Cascade was even open! The girls were beastly on their new gear and its looking like they will be ripping up the blacks this year!

...to Edlingen, Germany. So began a week long trip to Germany to co-facilitate a EUMETCAL Flash workshop. Left Boulder with Rach driving me to the Table Mesa Park'n'Ride at 2:40 on Saturday. Left DIA at 5:40pm and landed in Frankfurt at 11am the next morning even though it was only a 9 hour flight. Kind of a time warp but so it goes when traveling at 550mph towards the east across those time zones. Through serendipity, I got to sit next to a colleague from GLOBE on her way to the Copenhagen UN climate conference. She was great fun to talk to about her past work with other COMET folks and to learn a bit more about GLOBE's endeavors. The serendipity was a good thing too as I was really bummed that I got that inner row seat. I was tagged to an aisle seat but a split-apart family pleaded to have me switch. I reluctantly agreed. Reluctant because my long legs do much better when I can stretch them into the aisle. It worked out alright though and not switching would have been bad...