The weekend was great, again. And busy. It started right out of the gates after work on Friday. It met SE across the street in the lobby of the Brown Palace. I can’t believe she got to stay there. We recognized each other immediately. She invited me along with her to a bunch events that she had planned that evening for the conference she was attending.

We headed off almost straight away to the Tattered Cover Book Store for a gathering of students and professor in her field. I totally crashed it and drank their free beer and tried to act like I knew what I was doing. I talk to a few of the students their about random stuff but mostly just monopolized SE. It was funny cause we were standing around talking in this real open room and it was like a ballroom dance. I’d be talking to somebody facing the window and five minutes later, just from the shifting of our feet and other people joining in or leaving the conversation (and maybe my bad breath), I would be facing the complete opposite direction towards the book shelf. Then five minutes later facing back at the window. And everyone was doing this but I don’t think anyone noticed.

After this SE and I joined a walking tour of the LoDo area with an Architect professor and a bunch of design students. It was nice cause I felt like could contribute a little bit to the tidbits the professor was pointing out. The best part was the sound grates on Champa St. I can’t believe I had never noticed those before.

The we went and crashed another reception at the Wynkoop but things quickly got confusing there and we left after about five minutes. Then we went to the auction held in the box seats at Coors Field. At first I felt totally under dressed but by the end of the evening all kinds of people had arrived. They were auctioning of a lot of cool things like trips and wine, and nobody was bidding on anything. It was kinda sad cause you wanted the cause to do better. But on the other hand, it was cool that everybody that bid got really good deals. SE’s boss was going haywire.

Afterwards SE and I went back to the Wynkoop so she could say hi to a few friends. Then we just sat around bullshitting. The whole night was tons of fun and really interesting. SE was an absolute sweetheart and really tolerant of my lack of social skills. We ended up shutting down the bar and basically got kicked out and I then stumbled home. Thanks for the tickets SE and the free beer and the food and everything. Hope you had a good time. I did.