Being new to Colorado, I'm still amazed at how much open space there is here. My memory from living hear in the 1970s tells me that there's a lot less of it than there used to be, and my family who've been here a while tell me that the lights of homes and development creep further and further up the hills as time goes by. It still does, however, amaze me how open the spaces are here.
Today, Amy and I took a ride out past Canon City into the canyon for which it is named. We drove along the Arkansas River, and were surrounded by amazing geological features and rushing waters. While there were cars and trucks racing by, and a ton of Union Pacific and BNSF rolling stock sitting on the other side of the river, it was amazingly secluded. One cannot hear the traffic racing by over the din of the rushing waters. The spring thaw has the river cold and swollen. Being lost alone out here would be nightmarish, as finding a cellular signal is nigh on impossible until you break out one end of the canyon or the other.
One really interesting thing was the bighorn sheep standing atop one of the rocks... Seemingly surveying his domain. It's amazing that such rugged and forbidding terrain can be home to anything. Amazing creatures, all that live out in that. I really am beginning to love my new home.
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Bill, Hey, my Google scanner picked up your blog since it had Unisys on the page. Like your style of writing! Do you still work for GOIS?
I am still with GOIS. Keeps me entertained and off the streets. :)
not to be laughted at these days, I am with S&T. Work out of the home which is in the mountains of north Georgia. They shut down the offices in Atlanta and laid off most of the people. Somehow they have not understood the relationship between sales and salespeople! I do a lot of pre and post sales work, less these days as our revenue stream gets dryer and dryer....
I hear you... I'm associated in some regards with the Blue Bell NOC, which is now being decommissioned and all the activity moved to either SLC or Eagan. I also do service delivery from some towers in Bangalore. I'm seeing too many friends fall victim to the RIF man and just keep praying that I'm not next!
Corp IT took an 85 man hit in Blue Bell as well as others spread around the country, supposedly move it to India, have to wonder!
I was told that they are continueing the layoffs but at numbers just below what would require them to announce it, IBM is doing the same....
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