Starting 2009 on a good note…

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Got in ten runs from the top of the mountain!  First ride in the morning at 8:50 (they opened the lifts early!):

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View from the top at midday:

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and some really tired guy at the end of the day who fell asleep at the lodge:

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and lastly, my view at the end of the day while drinking a beer at the lodge:

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One more ski day and then back to the world!

Even Jin likes laying by the fire…

…and how can you blame her?

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When gestures of courtesy go wrong…

Have you ever tried to hold the door for someone coming in to someplace behind you, then you realize they are either farther away and/or moving much slower than you thought and so you end up holding the door for an amount of time that makes you irritated at them by the time they get there?

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Yeah, so have I…

Glad to be in Arizona

Especially after seeing the photos from the New England ice storm, where I was only a couple of months ago.  This pic was my favorite; crazy or what???

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Not sure whether I want to attend this party…

So my friend Karen has a DVD Exchange Cocktail Party each year, but I don’t really like the way it is showing up on my Evite list:karen_cock

Ah, what the hell.  I’ll go.

Massage chair test-drive or Stephen Hawking impersonation?

This is my buddy Ray checking out the highest end massage chair at Brookstone, though since he is British I thought he was just doing an awesome Stephen Hawking impersonation.  He then blew into a straw and rolled around the room:

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They make the food big in the Midwest…

So my buddy John recently moved back to Indiana for a new job, so he has been re-learning the ways of the midwest (he was originally from Minnesota).  One thing he is learning is the midwest version of portion sizes; below is a picture of a pork cutlet “sandwich”.  I LOOSELY consider it a sandwich because usually one can actually see the BUN with a sandwich but this one is completely obscured by breaded fried pork.

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He also put his hand in the shot for reference and he has HUGE hands (take it easy, ladies).

Trying to figure out if this is a good thing…

Circle K has sausage and egg sandwiches held together with syrup-laden pancakes.

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My friends are so talented…

So my friend Jill is taking a TRAPEZE class; yup, you read that right.  Check out her performance from the other night:

Sounds like my next new adventure!

Primo Ikea parking!

So I stopped over the Ikea the other day and check out this parking spot that I got:

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What luck that I was only there to return something and pick upp a couple brackets.  I felt like going in and buying a bunch of heavy shit just to make good use of the space.