Happy 2011 from Sydney!

We had amazing New Year's Eve here in Australia. Though we'll never do it again, the twelve-hour wait was worth it: seeing fireworks from in front of the Sydney Opera House was spectacular! I hope you all had great NYEs, and have a great 2011!

Merry Christmas!

I hope that everyone has a wonderful holiday.  As for us, we're headed to Australia this evening!  Stay tuned for updates.

A quick jaunt to Utah

I returned last night from a very nice visit to Park City.  I got to spend time with my family and the dogs, which was great.  It snowed nearly the whole time, which made for some interesting driving conditions.  We did manage to get a bit of shopping in, too!  All in all, it was an excellent trip.  Now it's time to start packing for the next one!

BoCo to PC

Tomorrow, I'll be taking a quick jaunt to Utah for a night to visit my family and its associated hounds.  There's no snow on the ground here in Boulder right now, but I've been reassured that the situation is quite different in Park City.  Once I return to CO, I'll have to get into packing mode quickly, as we leave for Australia and New Zealand in just a few days!

Boulder Milestones: CLE #1

Okay, as a "milestone," this one is pretty pathetic -- and it was technically in Denver, not in Boulder.  But I did attend my first legal education class today.  Titled "Practicing with Professionalism," it's a required class for admission to the Colorado bar, which is the only reason I dragged myself out of bed this morning.  (Well, that and the fact that I had to prepay for it.)  The sky on the drive in nearly made up for the early hour.

However, the next six hours effectively canceled out that nice view.  They were, to put it mildly, less than exciting.  To illustrate (literally) how dull the course was, as well as how generally uninformative it was, I present you with the sum total of the notes I took in those six hours:

I kid you not.

However, I really can't complain.  Well, that's not true at all, as evidenced by the above paragraphs.  Make that: I really shouldn't complain.  Neil and I just had a lovely weekend in Aspen, completely with a great snowfall and a friendly dog.  Though Neil did manage to injure himself on what turned out to be the last run of the day (diagnosis: separated shoulder), we've been told he will make a full recovery and that no amputation will be necessary, though I did sharpen my knives just in case I should be called into service.

And two days later...

Two days after the white stuff was originally forecast to come down, it actually has!  We awoke this morning to a blanket over the ground, trees, and roofs, and the big, fat flakes keep coming.

However, we will be leaving Boulder shortly for Aspen, so this snowfall is rather wasted on us.  But perhaps there will be some residual cover -- and preferably not the gray, slushy stuff -- when we return on Sunday.

Below is a picture of the space I'm using to study for the bar.  Note the white roof out my window!

So much for the snow

There wasn't any snow by the time I went to bed last night, so when I got up this morning, I went eagerly to peer out the window to see...nary a flake!  Guess the weather forecasters got that one a little wrong.  The morning forecast is still calling for a 40 percent chance of snow this afternoon, but I am currently wary of such predictions.  I had been hoping to wake up to a neighborhood blanketed in white!  (Easy for me to say, of course: my "commute" is only as far as my computer, where my bar-review lectures await.)