General Jackassery

So I’m finally back in town for a few days and I’m not buried with work so I have some time to post.

I went to North Carolina, Colorado, Nevada, and California for work and then headed to Atlanta to visit Mom after her knee replacement surgery when I got back.

Anyway, this, is one of the dangers of my job. This little dude was about 30″ long and I would have had a hard time closing my hand around the fattest part of him. I was about 5 feet away when I took the picture so I was well out of his striking range. I found it interesting that I’m not nearly as repulsed by snakes as I once was. I guess that has to do with watching so much “Crocodile Hunter” and “Jeff Corwin.”

The good part was a trip to the top of Pike’s Peak. Sarah reminded me that I go there everytime I am in Colorado, but something about it really calls to me. I guess I’m going to have to hike to the top of it one day and the maybe I’ll get it off my mind. Until then I’ll have to settle for some pretty pictures. This, is looking North-West from the summit of Pike’s Peak. This, is looking towards the north from the summit, and this, is a look at a cloud that was moving straight up. The wind was blowing towards the mountian and there was really good updraft.

Okay, that’s the bad and the good and here is the Ugly. After we left Pueblo, Rodney and I head off to Reno, NV to do some work at the Sierra Army Depot in Herlong, CA. So we go there to find this lovely “Honey Lake” needless to say, Rodney and I were less than impressed. Here , Here , and Here is the rest of the beautiful job site.

I’m sure that given the majority of the pictures posted here one would assume that my job is pretty fun. However, there are some fun times that are more enjoyable than others. Thad recently returned from his 4 month stint in Colorado and we greated him with a small practical joke. We’ve spent the last 4 months collecting coke cans. First we thought of filling his cube with cans, then we decided that would take too many cans. Then we decided to build a can out of cans, but we decided we didn’t think we could do it. We finally settled on building a Wall , but it wasn’t enough to enclose the cube entrance. we had to make it look like we totally Surrounded his cube with cans.