Tap The Rockies, Coors Park

Well, the move is complete! In fact, it was complete Saturday after a few hang-ups and unpleasant Elms surprises, but I won't get ahead of myself. Josh, Matt, and I have started the Coors Park era with several great events, including an inaugural round of mini-golf at the neighborhood course. Tonight featured the most gloriously expensive grocery shopping trip in the history of man, where we afterward tested the limits of our expansive fridge and new pantry. It all fit. Men: 1 - Groceries: 0.

Our Internet is back up and running, too, and we're now happy customers of Cox for all of our communications needs - except that our digital cable is still not 100% working, thanks to some Radio Shack do-it-yourself cable jobs some of the previous occupants tried out. We anticipate full channel coverage in time for, oh say - football season, maybe?

At any rate, I'm pleased with the Internet service: this cable modem is much faster than our DSL was. However, the gap in Internet coverage has definitely left Ramble On in sore need of a catch-up. I won't try to do it all tonight, but I'll pull double-duty over the next couple of days trying to work it out.

Where do I start? Saturday, July 29, perhaps - the day of the White House tour? For all the pomp and circumstance leading up to the tour, and the rigamarole Steve had to go through to even secure the tour in the first place, it could all be summed up in one word: short. I definitely am glad I was able to walk some of the hallowed halls of such a building, and there were certainly many interesting artifacts showcased in the few rooms we saw, but we walked through the whole tour route in about 25 minutes. I'm not sure if it was a bad time, or if they sometimes open up other hallways, but who knows. At the very least, I can say I've been there now, and not everyone can say that. I would still recommend going on a tour at some point, just don't come a long way to DC just for the sole purpose of touring the White House. Plan some other sightseeing along with it.

The rest of that day was jam-packed, really. Most of our eclectic group had a fun lunch at the Capitol City Brewing Company nearby, followed by more touring (I went with the Lloyds to the American History Museum because it's closing for remodeling soon, but most of the exhibits are already gone) and then Gina, Sarah, Katie and I ended up at a party thrown by one of my co-workers. Gina's presence at the party finally put to rest some long-standing rumors among my friends at work that my girlfriend didn't, in fact, exist. They had never met her up until then, so who was to say I didn't just Photoshop her into all the pictures I put up in my cubicle? At any rate, the legend has been disproven, and just in case you are wondering - yes, she IS real.

This brings us through to the beginning of last week, where nearly every evening I was shuttling a load of junk from the apartment to the townhouse. I took a Monday to work on my latest online class, too. From Tuesday the first until now, however, it has been absotively, posilutely NON-STOP. Check back tomorrow for an update on concert weeks, moving, frozen Subway sandwiches, and mysterious surgical procedures. If that won't hook ya, I don't know what will!