Sunday, December 31, 2006

Photos! Boo-yah!

Spontaneous abstractions, for your spontaneous enjoyment! Hurrah!





























Those are Christmas trees, believe it or not. :)

OK I was going to post more, but I must go.

To Whistler!

Dan

Saturday, December 30, 2006

Permission

"What should you do if you see a red octagonal sign?"

Uh, stop? Maybe?

I finally got my permit on Friday! I could have gotten it way back in August, and I've just been lazy. I'm kicking myself about that.

Right, so I didn't get that exact question on my test, but they were really easy. I got the first fifteen right and then it quit on me! It said I passed and to go away now. Basically.

I wanted to finish it though, see if I could get all 18 right! Stupid thing.

My very first parking job:



Incredible, right? Have a nice day.

Dan

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Wealth

I'd like to get some of your opinions about the stock market. I'm wondering if I should invest, or not. I have a bit of savings built up now, so does anybody know any companies that are on the rise, or about to introduce a new product or something?

Oh, I should probably tell you my budget - that might affect your analysis. Look, I'm not trying to brag here, but...

Six dollars and thirty-three cents. Yep, that's the gargantuan amount of money I have to my name.

:)

Dan

Saturday, December 23, 2006

Jump Up and Down With Me!

Cyber-jumping-up-and-down could be really fun. Is there gravity in Cyberspace?

Right, so I guess I'm going to have to give you an excellent and convincing reason for the aforementioned potential exertion, or it'll never happen. Yes, I'm calling you lazy.

To make a long story very short:

Go on, click on it!

Then Zoomy-Zoom in. You'll be amazed...

Oh yes. Look at that powder baby! That's Flute Bowl. You have to hike to get there, but once you do...

I'm praying for a big powder dump right before we get there. And powder dumps every night while we're there. And then clear, sunny days. No problem for God, I just hope that he wants the same thing...

Can you believe it? Me neither. I'm going to Whistler!

For those of you less learned in the realm of snowsports, Whistler is the biggest ski resort in North America, maybe even in the world. (Those stiff-headed Europeans measure their ski places differently, so we'll never know...)

8,000 ridable acres. Thats like, bigger than Rhode Island, right? OK, maybe not, but still...

And a mile vertical drop.

A mile! That means the elevation at the bottom of the lowest run is a mile lower than the elevation at the peak! It's mind-blowing, really. I'll be snowboarding there for 4 days. I'm leaving the 31st, coming back the 7th.

How about a story? Stories are always fun, except when they're not. OK, so some of you may know that I used to live in North Idaho and Washington state until I moved here 3.5 years ago. That's where I learned to snowboard. On real mountains, yes. One year, I had a season pass to a nice place called Silver Mountain, and I went about 12 times that season. It was awesome. Well, then I moved here. This is the highest ski resort in Pennsylvania, where I busted three bones in one fall, at the terrain park. I hate terrain parks, I'm no good at tricks. But here...well, they're about the only exciting thing.


The places in PA all make their own snow, which in turn turns to ice, which breaks my bones. I hate snowboarding on ice. That's why I'm so excited about Whistler:

Powder, not ice.

Yes.

I just thought of a sweet joke.

"More powder to ya!"

You know, like, more power to ya...

Right, so I'm about done, now that I've successful lowered your IQ by at least 10 points...

Dan

:(

It's time for the infamous "I'm The Worst Blogger in the World, I'm Sorry, And Here's a General News Update" post.

But I've done that too many times, so I'm not going to do it again. I'm going to try and do this right. As I see it, blogs aren't for news updates on my life or what I've been doing. They're for me to share things I think are interesting, and my opinions. I want this to be a place where you can go when you're bored and find a wealth of peculiar and interesting things to read or look at or do. So here goes, once again...

Dan