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Best Snow Report Ever

Winter Park has the best snow report that I've ever seen. 43.5 inches in the last 24 hours!! Too bad you can't get in (all the roads are closed). As a friend of mine said today, "It's a local's paradise."

View from our front door.

Made it home to the Blizzard of 2003

Oh man, I've never loved Colorado as much as I do now. This snow is fricken swweeettt. I got stuck in our driveway last night, trying to bash my way in. The snow was up to the hood of our Jeep Cherokee and when I hiked into the house, it was about 4 inches above my knees! It's been snowing all night and we probably got another foot last night. I spent an hour last night and shoveled the driveway enough to park in the garage. I'm going to re-dig the driveway out, throw on some chains and find a good sledding hill.

I can't believe that Alaska Airlines flew into this sucker last night - they're my new favorite airline. Most things are closed, my office is closed, and most roads are closed. In some cities (Aurora and Ft. Collins), it's now against the law to drive on city streets. I'll take my phone camera and hopefully do some mophoto-ing today. Too bad Julie has the good digital camera - oh well. In the meantime, check out this slideshow of the 2-7 feet of snow we have!!

Check out that snow! :-)

Our Jeep at DIA.

I made it! :-D

The Trip Home

I'm in the Seattle airport right now. My flight to Denver is still planning to go, but I have my doubts. It departs in about 40 minutes. The only Alaskan Airlines flight out of Denver was cancelled this morning (due to weather). Listening to some passengers next to me - the rumor is that we're going to try to "bust in" through the cloud over Denver when there's a break. If there's no break, then we'll fly back to Salt Lake City to refuel, try again, and if no luck, we'll come back to Seattle. Man would that suck - let's hope we get in on the first try! I'd better charge up this laptop battery - maybe I should try to rent a movie somewhere or something.

This post was made possible by my Amex card and the Wayport network in this airport.

Update: It's been confirmed by the airline that the scenario I described above is indeed the plan. If we can't get into Denver, we'll refuel in Salt Lake City or Boise (Idaho), then they'll try again. If unsuccesfull, we'll return to Seattle and we're on our own for lodging and other ammenities tonight. The only good thing about this adventure - Alaska Airlines has free microbrews (beer) on all their flights. Too bad I get sick when I drink and fly. :(

Denver: Winter Weather Bulletin

I'm scheduled to fly back home to Denver tomorrow. I'm supposed to leave from Wanatchee (the Apple Capital of the World!) and get into Denver around 6:00 p.m. However, I just received this Winter Weather Bulletin from a Denver User Group:

SNOW IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE IN THE MOUNTAINS THROUGH TONIGHT...
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. SNOW WILL BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES. STORM
TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS OF 3 TO 8 FEET WILL BE POSSIBLE ON EASTERN
SLOPES OF THE MOUNTAINS AND IN THE FRONT RANGE FOOTHILLS.

3 TO 8 FEET?!! That's the sweetest thing I've ever heard. Now I just have to figure out a way to get up skiing this week. Maybe they'll shut down the city, I won't have to go to work, and it'll be chest deep powder!!! Yeeee haaawww, I haven't been so excited since Abbie was born!

Wireless in Chelan

My dad and I did some work this afternoon and setup a wireless network in my sister's place. She got DSL installed last week and it's pretty damn fast. My dad carries a couple of wireless cards on him at all times, so after a little fuddling with the Orinoco card and my Mac, I'm coming to you live from the living room. Very cool!

The one problem I'm having out here is that my phone doesn't have a signal here, so moblogging is kind of tough. I have taken a bunch of pictures though. It's just a pain to copy to phone -> send via bluetooth -> post via e-mail or browser. It's much easier to just e-mail them from the phone. I wonder what'll happen if I attach a bunch of them to an e-mail.

I need an application that I can browse my phone from my Mac. I think Russ has a tool like this - is there one from the Mac? BTW, here's some pictures from yesterday before my cell phone signal died.

The Matrix (for App Servers)

TSS has volunteered to host the appserver matrix. This is a nice matrix that I've used in the past while teaching.

TheServerSide is pleased to announce that we will now be hosting the J2EE Application Server Matrix which was formerly available on Flashline.com. The 'Matrix' is a detailed listing of J2EE vendors and their application server products, with information on latest product version numbers, J2EE spec support and licensing, pricing, platform support, and links to product downloads and reviews. [TheServerSide.Com: Your J2EE Community]