Archive for the ‘Travelography’ Category
I keep thinking about my blog and it keeps sitting on the back burner. It’s not for lack of things I could be talking about, shit in the past 9 months, I’ve…
- competed in a city league ski racing league, and our team won the whole season
- had the worst Christmas ever #christmasfail08
- been [positively] excited about a presidential inauguration
- played a UO officially sanctioned flip cup tournament with the club sports olympics, and we WON
- broke a slalom ski
- went from 5 down to 2 e-mail accounts, and one of those may be going a way soon
- met a girl, her name is Angela, many of you have even met her by now
- graduated from college!!!!!!!!!
- successfully survived a road trip with Angela through 9 states
- Yellowstone, Ren Faire, Badlands, Wall Drug, SLC, etc…
- partaken in a few dancing lessons (ssssh! don’t tell anyone!)
- somehow convinced Angela to buy a Mac
- dealt with 2 flat tires in 2 different states I don’t live in, and neither one on my personal vehicle
- turned 27
- competed in 9 waterski tournaments in 6 different states, and waterskied in a 7th state
- including Collegiate National All-Stars for slalom+trick, and AWSA Western Regionals for 3-event (and qualified for but didn’t go to AWSA Nationals)!
- upgraded my wordpress blog, twice, without posting anything
- volunteered with a church group on a construction project
- bought a Playstation 2 from a thrift store for $12.50 and repaired it myself
- sold my old DSLR and bought a spiffy new one, and taken thousands of photos with it
- attended a number of concerts
- given up on my football team, due to some unFavreable circumstances
- finally started getting my online portfolio and résumé up-to-date
…and some other stuff too, I assure you. But now that you’re updated on my life, maybe now I can get this site fully back on track again?
Thinking maybe I should start doing tournament recaps after they happen, so I can look back at the performances at the end of the year. Anyhow, here’s my first crack at one.
I’ve skied at Mint a few times, but only at the Emerald Valley’s Northwest Championships tournament. This was the first one where our club wasn’t as required to do the work. I still helped out with scoring and judging, it helps to practice at a variety of locations, learn the quirks of the computers and whatnot.
22nd ANNUAL MINT LAKE OPEN
TourID: 08W133C
Yacolt, WA
7/12/2008 to 7/13/2008
Slalom Rd 1: 4 @ 58k, 23m
Tricks: 810 pts (personal best!)
Jump: 64 ft (personal best!)
Slalom Rd 2: 2H @ 58k, 16m (personal best!)
I also took some photos from the site (click image above for gallery):
Went skiing a week and a half ago to Anthony Lakes (Eastern OR). We left Wednesday night and stayed with my former roommate in Thedalles, continued on early morning for Baker City for a dip in the hot tub, and a live band at a local brew pub. Good nachos, good beer, so-so music. Skied Fri, Sat, Sun, and drove back Monday. Skiing was good, driving was meh. Hotel had free wired internet.
And I think I’ve come down with a case of senior-itis. 6 years into college will probably do that to a person. Granted I haven’t taken much of a full course load (averaging probably 10-11 credits a term). But I feel more apathetic towards my academics now than I normally do 8 weeks into Spring term. What can I say? Blah.
I applied for the Digital Arts program again earlier this month. If I don’t get in this time, I don’t know what I’ll do. I can’t recall how long the review process was last year. I just want to know now (and I want a positive response this time).
I blame my sweetie for my lack of blogging this last YEAR. I tried getting her to blog more, and that spurred I think one post on her decrepit LiveJournal(tm). On the brighter side, I love her more than anything, and she has been most helpful inspiring me to stay in this color theory class and actually doing some of the projects with me. I’ve got something like 5 paintings to get done for tomorrow though, so…. oh yea.. BLAH.
I’m not sure what else to say other than “blah.”
