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January 11, 2006 - Back!

I've been lazy about updating this, but it's official; I have returned. And surprisingly, I have returned intact! Matter of fact, of twenty people on the trip, not a single one of us came away with any major injuries. One almost got arrested, and another slid a couple hundred feet down the hill on her face, but you'll have those sorts of things. I had a couple pretty good wipeouts myself: Once I accidentally went down a black-diamond mogul run in zero-visibility conditions, which led to a nice faceplant. And once I was weaving through some trees on the side of a blue run and bailed in about thirty inches of powder. It literally took me twenty minutes to dig myself out of that one, recover my equipment, and get moving again.
But all things considered, it was an extremely fun trip. It was great to see my friends again, along with some new people my own age! I have a couple hundred pictures from various people that I'm still compiling, but pretty soon -- hopefully by the weekend -- they'll be up and ready for viewing.
Not much else is new. Going back to work after a vacation sucks, that's for sure. That's about all I have to report. More when the pictures are available.

January 13, 2006 - Dog 2, Boredom 0

I can't believe I forgot to post this up. The other day I left for work and accidentally left the door to Shadow's crate open. Five hours later, I got home and discovered that he'd had his way with my living room (again!) and that I had quite a cleanup job ahead of me. Casualties this time include a deck of playing cards, half a dozen Christmas cards, and about three of those fire-starter blocks. The blocks are about 3 inches square and a quarter of an inch high and made of nothing but pressed wood fibers and sawdust. So Shadow had an extremely healthy dose of fiber in his diet, which led to seven - count 'em, seven! - full-sized poops in less than twelve hours. Must have been rough on the little guy, but he's fine and dandy now.
Moral of the story: Close the damn crate.

Here are a couple pictures of the chaos. Sorry for the poor focus.

January 14, 2006 - Ski pictures and more!

In a moment of brilliance -- or a rare time I wasn't lazy -- I actually did something! I've made a photo gallery system that's much, much improved over my old one, and I put up about a thousand pictures into it. Most notable are the pictures from the ski trip I just went on. And if you'd like to check out Marie and Mindy's visit or last year's Spring Break, you can certainly do that too.

That's all for now; enjoy the pictures!

January 26, 2006 - Another long time without an update. Oops.

So, what's been going on since last time, when I put up ski pictures and all that business? A couple things:

First, I had a pretty crazy weekend; I managed to have three friends come at the same time! Kristi and Pete both had interviews with Microsoft, and James decided to take a couple weeks off before starting his big new job, and I somehow was lucky enough to be on his list of stops. So, along with Brad, Steph, and Jason, we all had a great time, which included a Friday night dinner complete with setting off the fire alarm, a hopeless wandering through Seattle where I got ridiculously lost, and a "raging" Saturday night party that was a hilariously great time all around. With a crowd like that, I've been catching my breath ever since.

Beyond that, I've trumped up my new pictures section slightly; it's not a huge improvement, and you probably won't believe me when I say it's taken me about three nights to do, but it was bugging me enough that I had to change it. If you're clever enough to spot the difference, let me know. It's not very obvious, but I think it's an improvement.

Yeah, that's about it. Annie linked this article on religion, which I found interesting. Be warned, it's got lots of unnecessarily big words and you might well fall asleep reading it, but it's interesting nonetheless. Cheers until I actually write another update.