Went camping last weekend. Found a nice place a few miles up a dirt road just off of 285. A little bit of hiking, a little bit of camp sitting, and a little bit of rain. OK, maybe more than a little rain, but it was not-raining more than it was. Those people in the site next to us that packed up during the downpour on Saturday were suckers - especially because the sun came out before they had finished loading their SUV…

Guess which pictures are from the rainy weekend

and which are from slacker camping in the nice a few months ago…

Reunion was this last weekend and in a new landspeed record, I’ve gotten all caught up on the pictures. And judging from those pictures, apparently everyone in our class is now 3.

Which is probably good, because otherwise the whole thing would have been very very tiring.

Other People’s Pictures…

Things have been somewhat hectic here as of late, so not a lot of photo updating.

Fortunately Dan and Mark both own cameras, so you can get you fill of kid cute here, here and here.

The GUT pool is back. The bestest, nerdiest pool around.
Enter here.

In an effort to get that football game off of the top of the page, there are now updated photos up.

Most notably our trip out to California to see family a couple of weeks ago,

but a few miscellaneous kid shots too.

…stupid super bowl…

• 15 - Different animals in this year’s Top O’ The Food Chain Chili.
• beef, chicken, turkey, lamb, buffalo, elk, venison, ostrich, yak, llama, kangaroo, wild boar, pheasant, pork, alligator
• 10 - Previous record number of animals set last year.
• antelope, but no llama
• 8 - Types of beans in the chili.
• kidney, black, pinto, garbanzo, cannellini, fava, borlotti, adzuki
• 5 - Types of “onions” in the chili.
• red, white, yellow, shallot, garlic
• 14 - Seconds it took Devon Hester to give the Bears the lead.
• 0 - Times the Colts turned the ball over in the second half.
• 16:08 - Amount of time that the Colts had the ball more than the Bears.
• $2,600,000 - cost of a 30 second advertisement during the Super Bowl.
• 93,000,000 - Number of Americans who watched the Super Bowl.
• 208 - Days until “next year” begins.

daBearsdaBearsdaBears

With apologies to Laura. Apparently it is going to be a long two weeks for her.

…now if i can just get anna to say “Ditka” by next sunday…

UPDATE:  Apparently, the Man doesn’t want us to see the Super Bowl Shuffle.

So some browsers (cough Internet Explorer cough) were having trouble with with the photo gallery. I think I’ve got the problem fixed, but if you have any problems getting the pictures (or with anything else), please let me know.

If you are interested in the gory details, look below or view the Photon forum.
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Hmm… what’s been going on in Denver lately…?

I think that basketball team we have might have been in the news lately for something or other. Oh yeah, and it snowed a little bit the other day. In fact, the blizzard and the Iverson trade even got tangled together with Iverson not being able to make it into town until a few hours before tip.

But importantly (and photogenically) that Anna kid turned one somewhere amidst all that snow. We got a few obligatory cupcake photos.

Also, plenty of pictures of kids playing in the snow.

Details of my 6 hour drive home from work on Wednesday not included…

• 46,000,000 - Number of Americans without health insurance.
• 8,300,000 - Number of children in the U.S. without health insurance.
• 73.8% - Amount that U.S. health insurance premiums have increased since the year 2000.
• 5 - Consecutive years that the percentage of Americans with job-based health insurance has declined.
• 0.46% - Percent of U.S. health care costs related to malpractice claims.
• 31% - Percent of U.S. health care expenditures that go towards administative costs.
• 15% - Percent of European health care expenditures that go towards administrative costs.
• $6,100 - Amount the U.S. spends per person on health care.
• $2,550 - Average per person spent on health care by the 30 OECD countries.
• 22nd - Rank of U.S. life expectancy among the 30 OECD countries.