1st Day on the Mountain

The first day this year was actually pretty weak. While there is plenty of snow in the Sawtooth Mountains the resorts don't have much yet.

I was actually going to skip driving all the way to Tamarack (100 miles north) since only the bunny hill was open but my co-worker Jesus convinced it was better than watching TV all day.



Jesus is still learning (what do you expect from someone from LA) and spent a lot of his day in the snow. As you can see there isn't much snow on the ground.


I spent some time on the board and on the telemarks. I remember how to alpine on the skis but the tele-turn eluded me all day. All I remember is Sol saying weight on the toes, weight on the toes. I didn't want to practice the wrong way so I did mostly alpine on them.

Overall it was a nice to be outside, there was a great sunset on the mountains. It snowed Monday night so hopefully the mountains can fully open soon.

Browns Win!!

I know its a little late for this but I have to do it anyway. As most everyone knows I'm a Cleveland Browns fan ( I really like suffering and frustration). Since we are in Baltimore for Thanksgiving, Jack was able to get me tickets to see the Browns @ Ravens last Sunday. He wasn't feeling well so I dragged Nick instead.

Our seats were behind the end zone on the upper, upper level. We were sitting with lots of real Baltimorons, it was a trip to hear them talk trash about their team the whole time. It was a crazy game but the Browns pulled out a tie on the final play to go to overtime, then won the toss and kicked a field goal to win!! It was a crazy day. I'm sure most of you don't really care but we had a super strange ending. Here is the story from the local news.


As soon as the kick went through Wade texted me that it was good but I didn't believe him. One of the problems with going to the game is that you don't really get any information. All we saw was the ref signal no good, Ravens players celebrating and leaving the field. This was a much better outcome. This is the 5th Browns game I've been to in my life and the first they have ever won when I was there.

It was a happy day.

Long Time No Blog . . .

This blogging thing is hard to keep up with on a regular basis. It takes a lot more work than I thought.

It's been a while since we blogged anything but here's whats been going on in Idaho.

Planning for the 2009 World Games is going slow. We suffered a major setback this week when President Bush vetoed a bill that had $8 million dollars in funding for us. It was the lead story on KTVB the local NBC affiliates news last night. You can watch the story here.

That said we are still moving forward. Joanie's old co-worker Ian is joining me in the IT dept on November 26. We'll now have two Terps to counter the Idaho Vandals & BSU Broncos on staff.

Tuesday night at 6pm we decided to go to the BSU vs Washington State basketball game. Tickets were $12 and available at the door. Washington State is ranked #6 and was clearly better than BSU but would get blown out in an ACC game.

Not much else to report. We are heading back to Maryland on Saturday for 6 days. It will be interesting to see sprawl and tons of people again. Since April, I've only left Idaho 3 times, twice to Oregon and once to San Francisco. Snow is falling in the mountains north of here, Tamarack and Sun Valley are scheduled to open over Thanksgiving. I hope to sneak up to one of them the Sunday after Thanksgiving.