I drove down to Colorado Springs to see a Sky Sox minor league baseball game Friday night with my friend Mark, who as regular Blog readers know works at the University of Denver's Anderson Academic Commons (the library back on earth). It was very overcast when we left, and so it was no surprise that it was raining cats and dogs when we got down there. We decided to have dinner at On The Border, and had Mexican food while we discussed all thing soccer. Mark is a huge soccer fan, and is overdosing on it this week, what with the Olympics and the start of the British soccer season happening at the same time.
In any case, Mark used his smart phone to find out that the game was postponed, which was not a surprise. When we left the restaurant, it was cold as hell out there - Colorado Springs is located at an elevation of 7,000 feet, several thousand feet higher than Denver, and when it turns cold there - even in August - it really turns cold. I was glad I didn't have to sit through 9 innings of Sky Sox baseball in those conditions. And as a helpful hint to fellow sports fans, if you are going to a sporting event when the conditions look like the photograph on the right (taken on Monument Hill on the way down to Colorado Springs), I would advise you to turn around, or at least find the nearest cantina to stop at.
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