We finished the first leg of our road trip to San Francisco today.

The idea was to get to somewhere in the middle of Iowa on Tuesday and spend the night and move along today (Wednesday) to get somewhere near Denver.  But, something funny happened.  We decided to push through and managed to go 2,200 KM in 24 hours.  It would have been over 2,400KM, but there were times when we were both sleeping at the side of the road and not driving.

So, here we are in Denver many hours ahead of schedule and able to relax and get cleaned up at a hotel.

Here's the cube by the pony express statue at the Colorado state 'Welcome Centre'

More pics to come as time allows.

This post has absolutlely nothing to do with my Cube life.  In fact its about doing stuff that almost never involves driving (since I don't drive if there's a chance I might like a beer or two).

So what is it? Well, I am just blown away by the number of great shows in Toronto over the next little while.

Last night I was down at the Elmo (el Mocambo) to see Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros with openers Fool's Gold.  A great show and good time had by all. (I think this review is spot on - but didn't touch on how great the Talking Heads inspired Fool's Gold was).

On Sunday night I'm going to be checking out Big Pink at Lee's Palace.

On December 2nd The Friendly Fires are playing at the Phoenix. (I missed out on tix for that)

December 4th has got King Khan (IMHO Montreal's Garage Rock God) at Lee's.

On Thursday afternoon I hopped in the cube and scooted west down the 401 to KW (Kitchener-Waterloo) for their monthly Drupal user's group meeting.

One of the founders of the group Khalid had been following my Druplicon Cube project and wanted to see the decorated Cube for himself.  So he invited me down to present on "Upgrading Your Drupal Site" - and to seal the deal he invited a few of us to his place for an Egyptian feast.  Middle eastern / Mederainian food is awesome!

The turn out for the event was apparently larger than normal (I guess I'm famous or something) and the talk went well.  I like sharing my knowledge with others and giving back to communities in some way: doing a presentation is a pretty good way of doing both those things.

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I was just reading a conversation on Twitter between Laury and Telma. It turns out there is a super secret ninja hiding space in our Cubes.

Now I bet if you've had to change a flat or actually read your entire owner's manual you'd know about this, but I hadn't and didn't.  What am I talking about?

Lift up your rear seat floor mat and look behind the driver's seat.

When I looked it blew my mind.  Blew my mind to find there are things I just don't know about my car.  I'm glad it keeps surprising me in good ways even after a few months.