Hi everyone

Just a short message to let you know why there hasn't been an update in a while - my laptop broke down last week and refuses to start, so it has now been at the repair shop for over a week. They first thought it was the CPU fan but after replacing that it still doesn't start up, so now the hypothesis is that it is indeed the motherboard that needs replacement.

Anyway, short summary of the current situation: My parents were here and among other things we went to Cripple Creek and Canon City, and I have a lot of photos from there that I will sort and upload as soon as my laptop returns; the harddrive is functioning well by the way, but just for safety measures I have taken 2 DVD's worth of backups from it, so all the imagery will eventually surface on Flickr.

After being here for two weeks they went home and after a bit of trouble in Copenhagen (11 hours to be exact!!) they got home, safe and sound.

I keep on working using the workstation computer at DMNS, and I have had a few interesting meetings in the past week, and have a few more planned. Next week I got to Minneapolis to play records at Konkrete Jungle and 9th Circle, and I will also meet up with the planetarium people at the Minnesota Science Museum while I'm there, so it will be a nice combination of work and play. :)

Well, time to go to bed now - I might actually get up really early tomorrow and run the Cherry Creek Sneak, a 5 mile race that is very close to where I live. The only issue is that I haven't been running a lot, as I got my running shoes when my parents came here, but I might try anyway. I will report soon again and I hope that the laptop gets fixed before I leave for Minneapolis on Tuesday!

Until next time, have a good one.

Happy Easter!

My parents have arrived in town, they arrived this Tuesday - they arrived well but their luggage took another day to arrive - an impressive feat by Delta. :)

They are staying at Ben & Pat's house and seem to have adapted quickly to the Mountain Time time zone. Their jetlag wore off quickly compared to how I experienced my first days in Denver; it took me 3 or 4 days to become normal (cue bad jokes here), but then again my trip included a 5 hour extra wait in Denmark and as I arrived after midnight I didn't get more than around 6 hours of sleep the first night. But enough about that - here is a nice shot of the Denver airport that I shot from Ben's car just before we picked up my parents. :)

I've had the pleasure of showing them all the museum, including a special visit to the planetarium showing the Uniview software in action. My father was even the star pilot for a while, successfully navigating us from the moon to Saturn and even further out in the solar system.

Yesterday they celebrated their wedding day and we all went to Vesta Dipping Grill in LoDo (= lower downtown, the area with all the nice restaurants and bars). We had some really nice meat, dipping sauces, and vanilla ice cream and a hearty chocolate cake (with even more dipping sauces) was indulged during dessert.

Today I met with about 20 of my relatives for Easter dinner at Ben & Pat's house! It was fun to meet them all, some of them I had met before but even more of them I had not, so it was good putting names to faces and vice versa. :) A good time was had and the kids did a great job egg hunting all over the house - the snow made us refrain from hiding eggs in the garden, though (yes, the snow is back for a while).

Speaking of snow, there was some serious snow in the end of last week, of which I took some photos - here is one of the images showing the amount that fell just during one night. The temperature fell about 30 degrees Fahrenheit from Wednesday to Thursday! And then on Sunday I was downtown in shorts and sunglasses - the weather here is just too funny.

Tomorrow we are going on a trip to Cripple Creek and Canon City, and on Tuesday we are going to the Royal Gorge Bridge. Tomorrow evening we are also invited to Dimitri, one of the space scientists at the museum, who lives up in the mountains. And on Tuesday evening we will return to Denver in time for the Space Ethics discussion event in the IMAX, where I have also been asked to play some live music on the laptop, meaning it will be my first performance with the new live PA setup that I have been working on for a while.

Speaking of music, I played my first gig this Friday at Recon, and had a great time - people seemed to enjoy the selection and I even managed to get the Air FX hooked up for this one, for some extra 3D madness along the way. :) Next DJ gig is on Saturday, when I play at the Nation 4 party at the Palladium Event Center.

I'll be back soon with more to tell about what is happening here in the Mile High city! Until then, sleep well and Happy Easter. :)