It rained a bit last week… as a matter of fact we had quite the little storm on thursday. Even with a house full of people you could hear the wind whip around our place in Tempe. The rain was coming down in sheets and there was even hail for a short time. I don’t usually do much weather photography… none really, but living here has made me want to start (the above photo is not mine, it’s from flickr). Even though my car windows were down the whole time the storm was pretty cool, that is until I got to work the next morning. Downtown was a mess, getting from the 10 over past Thomas took 20 minutes longer than usual, none of the traffic signals worked and the roads were a maze of toppled trees and power polls. Then when I got to work not only was our SAN down (a non storm related issue) so I couldn’t get any work done but we also didn’t have any internet. I found myself reading the paper until someone finally found me a project I could work on. It’s very frustrating to know there is work to be done and not be able to do it, and then to not have interwebs to pass the time… not cool.

During my week off from school I was able to get out of work for a day and drive up to the Grand Canyon with a good friend. We drove through Sedona on the way up and I can’t even being to tell you how awesome that was. In all honestly we should have just stopped and chilled in Sedona for the day, but my travel companion had never seen The Grandest of Canyons so we ventured on. Sedona is like another state, it’s not hot, it’s not dry or desolate. It’s beautiful and green, there’s a river and the temperature is tolerable. I really want to get back up there soon, it’s a very expensive little town so it’l just be a simple day trip, but there is a part of me that wants so badly to jump into a river. It’s simply been too long since I at least scoffed at the opportunity to do so. Later the trip hit a sour note when I found out that my friend didn’t know where Idaho was on the map. After a few texts to ChaCha she got the picture but I don’t think I’ll let her live it down any time soon.

I’m sure by now you’ve all heard who McCain picked to be his VP. It’s never been more appairent that he would rather win an election then effectivly govern.
That’s about all I can stomach to say about it… I’ll just let John Stewart take over.

If you didn’t catch Obama’s speech I suggest catching up. I’m interested to see how the Republicans react at their convention.

In other completely unrelated and slightly random news I told someone special this week flat out “I want to be with you.” She said something about being light headed… I think that’s a good thing.
Time will tell.

David Hildreth