I prepare

Today: hike up Green Mountain to make sure that Higgs and I can do a fourteener on Saturday.

So I've been way slacking on hiking this year, mostly doing stuff out here on the plains instead of in the mountains. Now my friend Sinclair wants to go up Mt. Bierstadt, the easiest fourteener in Colorado, on Saturday. It's the easiest because the trailhead is at 12000 ft (nice!), and the approach is crazy shallow until the very top, but there will be very little air. Green mountain is in town and it's been a favorite over the last couple of years. The hike up is roughly the same elevation change and distance but 4000 ft lower, so hopefully we can still do it at a solid pace.

I dream about flying

I've been redoing this decaying old album for Matt of his great-grandad's war stuff. He was a flying instructor in WWI and again in WWII. He didn't seem to keep much from the second war, but we've got tons of photos and almost every piece of paper he ever touched in WWI. I've been scanning some of the interesting photos and put them up here. It's pretty surprising that anyone was willing to take those flimsy things up in the air.

I love the Internet

I watch too many videos

I totally stayed up way too late last night watching first newish OK go videos, then various OK go imitations, and finally some good Flight of the Conchords songs. In the middle of this spree I happened to IM my little sister, who was coincidentally home alone watching silly youtube videos, too, but of the stop-motion lego variety (by the way, there's actually lego OK go on treadmills, but I don't recommend it). The only redeeming feature of the evening was that I found the Futurama DVD trailer, which pleased me immensely.

To make my day even better, I just discovered that my favorite show as a kid, Get Smart, is being revived as a movie with Steve Carrell. Nevermind that I kinda can't stand Get Smart as an adult, I'm convinced that it'll be genius.