I could see the smoke from the Boulder fire as I was walking over to Keri and Eric's this morning. For the first time the graph on the Weather Channel was showing the Denver Metro area air or ozone level as somewhat hazardous to people with respiratory problems. We need some moisture.
Kathy's cousin Art and his wife Sharon are coming to visit us today and stay overnight. We seem to get more company after moving to Colorado although Art, Sharon, and family did visit us one time in Casper.

Went to the health club to work out this morning. It was the biggest crowd I'd seen since I started going last July. In other words there were a lot of laborers laboring-how bad is that.
We got our first campaign worker yesterday. It was in the 90's and I'm glad that wasn't me out walking the streets for a candidate. I can hardly wait for the telephone calls to begin. Yard signs are at least banned in our neighborhood.
I am calling for my ban on RVs from 6:00 am to 10:00 on any state or federal highway. Watched another one almost cause a pile-up this morning.

The temperature still is in the 90's after a record number of days in the90's. This week we received a notice from the Denver Water Board that with Fall now here we can cut back on our watering. It may have been a bit premature as we haven't had any moisture for a couple of weeks and the lawn and trees, etc. are drying up. I think they send our the same brochure about the same time every year.

Today was the "big game" day for the game between Colorado State University (CSU) and the University of Colorado (CU). I went to the SNIAGRAB, which is a huge ski equipment sale held every Labor Day weekend. I was wearing my CSU T-shirt because I went to grad school at CSU and met my wife there. One of the SNIAGRAB salesman came up to me pointing to an area where people could get technical advice on ski equipment. He led me over to two guys. He said one was a CSU guy and the other was a CU guy so I should probably work with the CSU guy. I told him I went to the University of Wyoming and couldn't stand either team but had gone to grad school at CSU. That brought the conversation to a rather quick halt.
I root for CSU twice a year-against CU and BYU but CU handed CSU their asses this afternoon. Later I went over to watch and eventually burp the twins. I told them they could urp on my CSU T-shirt but neither bothered. They knew a loser. Maybe I should wear my WhiteSox or Detroit Tigers T-shirt tomorrow.

Yesterday I finally got registered to vote in Colorado. I was supposed to become registered when I got my driver's license in July. All I wanted to do was change my party affiliation and receive my ballots in the mail. After a call to the county registration department I found out that I either had to change things in person or over the Internet. I chose the latter. Even this isn't easy. I had to list my driver's license three times and repeat other info. Finally what I submitted took and I am now a registered voter in Colorado.
They wouldn't let me vote in the primary because I didn't get a driver's license soon enough. That's OK but in Wyoming I could have walked up to my polling place the day of the election, registered and voted all at the same time. Not here-afraid too many illegals would sneak in and vote.
Today all ballots must be finalized and sent to the printers. One party doesn't like its nominee for governor and wants him to quit but he won't. Colorado was one of states that said it couldn't get its ballots printed to be sent to military personnel overseas and returned on time. When one of the political parties complained, all of sudden the story changed to yes we can do it. They must figure they are going to get the majority of those votes.
A friend from Wyoming said the elections up there are getting nasty. Down here they are getting vicious. I say a pox on both their houses and everyone should run as an independent with six weeks of campaigning-oh, and term limits.

After Aiden urped on me twice on both Tuesday and Wednesday, I decided that babysitting has some hazardous duties such as burping when the kid has a cold. I now carry an extra T-shirt to my "job" as grandparent babysitter. These things aren't in the manual. "Be prepared" has become my motto (with due respect to the Boy Scouts who established the phrase a few years ago). I still enjoy the work.

Yesterday we were supposed to receive a package from UPS. The shipping e-mail indicated that it had to be signed for. We also received a phone message saying the parcel would be delivered some time between 8:00 am and 7:00 pm which is a tremendous time frame. Someone would have to sign for it. We weren't too happy about trying to be home all day to sign for it but at least one of us was around for most of the time.
THEY DELIVERED THE PACKAGE AT 7:20 PM! At least it arrived on the day it supposed to.
UPS receives no Christmas card this year.