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What's the latest with Michael Drews?

Mamma don't take my Kodachrome away! I've been scanning old family slides dating back to 1947, entering the title information into spreadsheets, and have been organizing the pictures in Picasa. I've also been putting my new digital pictures in Picasa, and with the data organized properly I can easily create photo albums showing people from infancy to the present day.

I got married to the most wonderful person in the world in 2008, and am enjoying married life very much.

Sometimes a recreation turns into an obsession. But if you set high goals, you can accomplish great things.

I missed the goal of qualifying for the Olympic Trials in 2006, but I managed to skate my age in the 500 meter distance (43.94 on 2/24/2007), and have done every distance (10,000 meters in 17:42.78 on 2/17/2007, 21.05 mph), so who knows what's left?

On the employment front I'm now working at DriverTech in the industrial heartland of West Valley City providing 99.99+% uptime for transportation fleet monitoring and management systems.

In April of 2005 Lake Powell was down to one third of capacity due to an extended drought in the Colorado River Basin. I took a quick trip down to Hite, Hall's Crossing, and Bullfrog to see and get pictures of the exposed landforms. I was able to compare these views with pictures from 1990 and 1962, when my family crossed the Colorado River on the Hite Ferry.

It did my heart good seeing the Colorado River flowing under the Utah Highway 95 bridge. The Colorado was looking the way it is supposed to: too thin to plow, too thick to drink. I've posted my pictures for all (including the web crawlers) to see.

All right, it's time to tear yourself away from that computer screen and maybe even go tango or contra dancing in Utah or elsewhere.