The Grand "Stinkin" Canyon

Don't know why I put "stinkin" in the title, but what the hell, perhaps for the Mike Hudsons out there. If anybody wants to hear him and my main man GAINES, be sure to check out their radio show. Hope to meet up with you boys b4 time runs out on my time in California.



Anyway, the roadtrip to the Grand Canyon was...A SUCCESS! We finally reached at around 10pm Friday night and guess what was greeting us as we made our way into the hotel parking lot?? ELK! I was so surprised to see ELK! For a second, the Michigan ghetto redneck in me wanted to grab for my 12 gauge sawed-off party-pump shotgun and have some elk-burgers for a midnight snack..esp now with the SEASON SHOT, ammo with flavor (thank you, NPR!)!



Elk burgers aside, let me tell you one thing, if you're planning on watching a breath-taking sunrise over the Canyon in November...be prepared for some cold! 29F and we nearly froze to death. Holy geez, I have been in SoCal too long. Thank god we stole some sweatswirts from Reith during last year's Thanksgiving, I really have to buck up the winter wardrobe in anticipation for my move to Atlanta! Below you can see Jam and I minutes before we ran into our car to thaw out.



Speaking of which, For those of you who care, today I started my new job in a different department here in LA. Upon entering my new office, I promptly asked to meet my new boss and told him I was leaving for Atlanta! Ha! Def. the strangest day of work since I've started this thing called work. So it's official: it's been confirmed from the CDC themselves, Dec. 11 will be my first work day! Now, it's going to be interesting to see what the new department has me doing for the next few weeks. Any rumors about "scanning projects" will be heavily frowned upon and met with copious amounts of "sick leave".

Yesterday, we extended the roadtrip by driving down Highway 17 and into Tempe, Arizona, home of the Sun Devils, home of Arizona State University, Alma Matar of one Digs Leonard. After strolling through town (I must admit, it's a great place although the school doesn't even begin to compare with my former university, the University of Michigan), I walked into the university store, the one where they sell all the ASU gear (shirts, keychains, shot-glasses, ASU heroin spoons, etc), and guess what I encountered...in the land of yellow and burgundy, deep within ASU terrority, a man who is making a living off of pushing that ASU garbage is DECKED, HEAD TO TOE, in University of Michigan gear. After I asked him for his picture, I told him, "It's okay, we can't all go to Michigan, the world needs shirt sellers, too." FYI: HUGE GAME THIS WEEKEND. OSU VS MICHIGAN. Yes, Ms. Hu, I can believe someone typed this into wikipedia. Football is a religion in those parts. That being said, Go Blue!



POS, eat it! A true ASU fan, wishing he could have made it into a "real" school:)