June 11 drive over Kenosha Pass, Colorado

 

Drunk Driver?

Just had a run-in with this douche canoe at 52 Ave and Allison street in Arvada. He decided at the very last second that he did want to turn right when his lane ended, so he switched lanes even though we were close to hood-to-hood, proceeding with his lane change even after I laid on the horn. He then ran up on top the sidewalk on the opposite side of the intersection and then brake checked me as soon as he regained control. I told the highway patrol when I reported the incident that it could have been a drunk driver incident, as he seemed less than capable of maintaining control of his vehicle. This was four in the afternoon, however, so this guy was most likely a bad driver as opposed to drunk. But, people are dumb enough these days to drive drunk this early in the afternoon disregarding the steep penalties for drunk driving. He did manage to drive somewhat straight down the road after almost running me off it it, however, despite his constant flipping me off and yelling. He then turned north down Carr street. I went straight. Like I said, I did call the highway patrol and made an incident report. They probably won't do anything about it, but you can only hope. I didn't have my dashcam running at the time, but this incident was a reminder to me that you can't go anywhere now a' days without running into assholes like this guy.

June 11 drive Eleven Mile Reservoir, Colorado

 

June 4 drive over Berthoud Pass

 

June 3 drive down Trail Ridge road starting at visit center

 

June 3 drive going up Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park.

 

It's been a minute

For the past three years I've been working from home, and thus stopped making videos. I didn't need to, or so I thought. Driving less than a handful of miles per week, I thought for sure my anxiety from driving would diminish. As it turned out, driving just that little bit, I still witnessed enough incidents to keep my channel going. And still I didn't. I wanted to be better at letting things go and also be a calmer person. But the dumb fucks driving in Denver make that very hard.

Then COVID-19 hit. And we were all forced to stay home and chillax. Afterwards, I thought, for sure people will have a renewed appreciation for life. Nope! Things got worse. People became more self centered. You all know how it goes.

But other factors played in to me taking this hiatus.

For one, Microsoft (its own dumpster fire worthy of its own Blog) stopping supporting its video editing software that could previously been pre-installed with everything before Windows 11. And as much as I hate Microsoft, this video editing software was not half bad. It was slow and froze a lot, but it got the job down. And that's the hiccup I'm battle now: what do I edit my videos with?

Whatever I come up with to solve this problem, the short of this story is that I will be back. And soon rather then later.

See you then, Longhorn.