I don’t watch American Idol for the simple reason that I hate seeing public train wrecks. I often feel bad for them and it’s generally uncomfortable, probably because I can relate so well (especially after my catastrophically disastrous VP status call this morning but that’s a topic for a different post). When Amy sent me this video this morning, I almost quit watching after the first 30 seconds since I was sure this guy was just going to humiliate himself. I’m glad I kept watching.

The piece he sings is Nessun Dorma from Turandot, music by Giacomo Puccini and libretto by Renato Simoni.

I’ve seen lots of emulators and browser based widgets that enable you to play the most popular video game of all time but this flash based version takes the cake for realism.  Since Flash is vector based, the game will scale to the full size of your monitor.  You can move the insatiable ghost eater with the arrow keys.  You can play the game HERE.

I guess it’s official now.  It’s amazing how much can change in less than a year.  Everything is the same year after year after year and then all of the sudden, you barely recognize the new life you’re living now.  I think I need to change the name of this blog (even though technically, Colorado Springs gets more rain annually than Seattle) ’cause I’m definitely not in the rain city anymore…

She said yes  :)

I’m supposed to be at the 2 hour waiting lot at Denver International Airport to pick Amy up but instead, I’m stuck on I-25 North just south of Castle Rock, CO.   There was a huge accident and all northbound lanes are closed.  Instead of doing nothing, I can watch Amy’s approaching flight on Flightview  and check my e-mail.  The problem is that her flight is now somewhere over southwestern Idaho with less than an hour remaining.  A trooper told the car in front of me that it’s going to be quite a while and with guardrails on both sides, there’s no way to move the existing traffic onto local roads. 

So I’m pretty screwed and I feel bad for Amy because DIA pretty much shuts down after midnight (it’s a pretty good airport to be stuck in when the stores are open.  There’s also good Wi-Fi but I doubt she brought her Mac Book Pro.

At least I have broadband here on the road courtesy of my Sprint EVDO Rev A service.  I’ve loved it so far but this is the first time I’ve really been able to use it.  Even this far out of Colorado Springs and Denver, I’m still able to get about 970k down and 310k up.   Ok, not much substance in this post but at least it will cover my ass :) 

[EDIT: A few seconds after I pressed "publish" a large crane moved one of the semis enough to allow one lane of traffic to pass and I'm now waiting at the DIA short term arriving flight wait lot for Amy to call. It all worked out and I got a real excuse to use my Sprint mobile broadband service. All is well tonight.]