Category: Skiing

Christmas-y post.

I’m one of the world’s crummiest bloggers. Anyhow, here’s my xmas post.

Went waterskiing on Dec 11th with Mike and Todd. Twas a bit chilly. Twas a sh*tload of fun!

I took a vacation of sorts from Dec 17-26th, visited my brother&fam, and worked full-time the rest of the break. After rolling out about 24 hours later than I was planning on, I got to Mt Hood Timberline at about 7pm and proceeded to ski until 10pm. Only the lowest portion of the mountain was open, and it was really cold/windy, but it was infinitely better than not skiing. I always get a kick out of being told “ok, this is your last run”, and then getting another or 2 more runs out of it and “closing down the mountain” so-to-speak.

Got to Boise at some ungodly time in the morning, brought all my stuff in and crashed. Sunday was my brother’s birthday, so he woke me up and he, Maddie, and I went skiing at Bogus for a few hours. I took Monday off, skied Tues, Weds (crazy hot out), and Thurs (crazy hot and raining cats– was soaked after 4 runs), before the ski hill ran out of snow and had to close down for the rest of my trip. Anyways I can not complain about getting 5 days of skiing in a week. 🙂

I got my camera in the mail from Kristin around the 22nd. You ROCK cuzzin!

We celebrated Christmas on the 24th, because the girls had to go to their father’s for the 25th. Now for the l00t I guess… I got a hat, some baseball cards, and 2 shirts from my brother’s family, an extra 512MB RAM and a Vikings sweatshirt from my folks, a mint set of state quarters and a mega-opener (bottle/can/jar/whatever opener) from my other brother, a roll of duct tape from my dog in Minnesota, Ike, a Coke truck and a set of pliers/wire cutters from my sister-in-law’s parents.

We were going to go skiing on the 26th, but due to unseasonably warm weather, some resorts weren’t even open, and others had horrible conditions. I headed home in the afternoon, stopped at the video store and got 4 movies (buy-2-get-2-free), and was on my way.

note: This post was finally posted on Jan 8 2006. I’ve backdated it to fit more chronologically in the archives.

Travel and overeating and blogfame

I’m one of the world’s shittiest bloggers. I started this I think the Tuesday after Thanksgiving:

A weekend ago, I flew back to Minnesota for my grandmother’s funeral. It was good to see everyone again, but the circumstances were less than ideal. I think that some kind of reunion is in the works, and it sounds like it’ll be within a 500 miles of me in some direction, which is a good thing.

This past weekend I made excellent time driving to my brother’s for Thanksgiving. I got to Boise in just over 7 hours.

Now I’ll try to remember other things I was planning to write about.

Yada yada yada… Food & company were great. My brother and I made it up to Brundage to go skiing. Was my first time there, and it was pretty good.

Within 2 days of each other, I got a random mention on Jinkies’ blog, and a blatant mention in Torgie’s Webcomic! w00t for blogfame!

note: This post was started on I think Nov 29, 2005, and finally posted on Jan 8, 2006. I’ve backdated it to fit more chronologically in the logs.

New iPuter!

iMac G5 with FrontRow ZOMG! So last week I finally decided on a new computer. I got a new-in-box previous model iMac from the bookstore for an excellent price, and it came with a free iPod mini. I soon figured out how to hack it to run FrontRow (really cool multimedia player that *only* comes with the latest revision iMacs). Then Monday comes along the OS X 10.4.3 update, and breaks the launching mechanism for FrontRow, so I postponed upgrading at home until I could be sure it would work (on my Mac Mini at work). Anyhow, I got it working, and upon getting home, I upgraded, and added the codecs for divx, 3ivx, and xvid to Quicktime, and now I can watch divx and xvid files natively in FrontRow! w00t!

At work, today, I spent probably a good 6-7 hours working on 4 pc’s and 2 printers. I got one of the pc’s cleaned up and running much faster, got 2 more of them online and updated, and was getting started with the last one on windows update. I really hate, or rather despise windows pc’s. It’s so sad when you can’t get a new computer and plug it into the internet without getting infested with malware. Can take over an hour to give a computer a good run-over to be secure and fully patched. What else is sad, is that if I were to do this off-campus, free-lance style, I could probably EASILY make 10x what I make on-campus, per machine…. Just without all the college atmosphere, helpful peers and superiors, guaranteed paycheck, etc, etc. I like my job a lot. And that said, I probably wouldn’t ever try to do similar work on my own, most of the positive aspects are the people and the atmosphere (and the fact that until today, 90-95% of the computers I support were Macs– I think it’s down to around 80% now).

Also, I’ve been thinking a bit about what kind of skiing I want to do this winter. I’ve got a season pass to Bogus (ID), and some vouchers to the likes of Willamette (OR), Meadows (OR), Schweitzer (ID), and Tamarack (ID). Part of my family lives in Idaho, so I’ll be there a fair amount. And this year I have a cousin going to grad school in Cali, so at least one, probably a couple/few trips to the Tahoe area (maybe something to Shasta/Ashland) are in order. The problem is, traveling this distance, *and* buying a lift ticket gets very expensive, so I need to figure out how to work out some deals on something, maybe arrange some ride-sharing somehow. We’ll see. Oh, and my parents got season tickets this year to their local ski area, so I challenged them to get out skiing more than me this year! 🙂