Well Nina made it out the door with her mom at 12:30pm on Sunday. I've been on my own since. I'm trying not to focus on the fact that she is gone, and instead focus on the increased amounts of free time that I have now. I've made a pledge to myself that if I am awake and not at work, I will be doing something to fill my time.

Tonight I had Christina, Karin, Mikki, and Jeff (Geoff?) over for dinner. Christina's husband Mike is out of town on business, so we decided that we would cook dinner together. We made a fancy baked mac & cheese that had onion and sausage in it. It was very good. We also played lots of video games on the arcade panel. Simpsons figured prominently, as did "Magic Cat Adventure." The game "Mahjong Erotica Golf" was voted funniest name, but we didn't play it because it's in Japanese.

This weekend I was going to go climb the Wilson group of Colorado 14ers, which are supposedly quite challenging. However, it turns out that Robin can't go and he wants to try to do them in two weeks. So I'm going to go climbing on my own somewhere else.

Because I'll be solo, I'm going to bag a bunch of easy 14ers just to tick them off the list. It's something to do. Taking advantage of my extra time to drive, I think I'll go nab some of the easy yet far away front-range peaks up near Denver. Grays/Torreys actually has a 3rd/4th class route on it, and Evans/Bierstadt has a 3rd class route. I may throw in Democrat/Cameron/Lincoln/Bross as a bonus if I'm feeling particularly peak-bagger-esque.

In calculating the drive time for my trip using Yahoo Maps, I discovered that my apartment is almost at the exact geographic center of Los Alamos, which means if you just enter "Los Alamos, NM" as your address for your starting point, it gives you directions that actually start at my place on Orange St. - convenient!