I saw the ball drop on TV. That’s about the extent of my celebrations.
I did go night skiing. I don’t think I’ve ever done it before. We went to Hoodoo, which is pretty small, but they were the one doing night skiing . I covered all the runs and then we left. The snow was a little bit on the icey side, unfortunately. I’ve skied much worse, but we’re spoiled now.
We’re gonna try and go back to Bachelor early tomorrow, so I should probably nod off here.
Have a good 2009 everyone.
Got up on the slopes today. It was great weather and snow conditions. I ditched everyone a lot of the day and did my own thing. Pat and I lost Hannah for a while, we didn’t think it was possible on the run we were doing, but we did. There were quite a few people, but it’s all right. I was fine all day until the 3rd to last run I went down something called Outback which was just grueling. Fun enough, but I got all hot and sweaty and my legs hurt. I powered through though and got a couple more runs in before the day was done.
Tomorrow there will be more skiing. Maybe double more, cause of night skiing on account of the new year. We’ll see. Happy New Year peoples, btw. Maybe I’ll wait 24 minutes to post this so it will be timely.
That excursion to the gym I mentioned yesterday has left my biceps in quite a bind. I slept on them funny, too, I suspect. Anyway, the combination of events means when I try to straighten my arms the furthest I can get leaves about a 25° angle. It’s quite painful. I’m going to try to sleep in such a way as to undo it tonight. Probably won’t affect my skiing much, but at this point it actually could. Poles and all.
Oh, and after the skiing and the dinner eating I went into the hot tub. It was nice. Obviously didn’t really help with the muscle problems, but I wasn’t really expecting it to. Pretty nice. Maybe when I grow up I’ll have one.
I got to go on this big vacation thing with Pat. So, I’m in the woods outside of Bend in this, like, very fancy log cabin thing. Ya know, where millionaire’s go when they think they’re camping. We tried to go skiing today but there was like a blizzard knocking out the power so they closed the place. So, we didn’t really do anything today except eat, and hang out, and go to gym.
Anyway, my digs are better than yours. I’ll keep ya posted.
Mother and I won a game of pinochle.
Lauren and Sidney have both managed to post about the nothing they’re doing, so I guess I can, too.
Aaron and Kim visited yesterday, which is close to something. Kim fell asleep pretty much immediately, but we watched Back to the Future II anyway. That’s a pretty messed up movie. I don’t think I’m really a fan of the series.
For the rest of my time I’ve mostly been trying to catch up on all the media I have gotten behind on. Pretty much all caught up on Southpark, watched all of Sanctuary (they changed things from the web version), and caught up on Heroes today. Heroes is silly. The fast chick can go back in time because she can move so fast when super charged by Ando, sure, makes total sense, but how does she go forward in time? /shakes head Whatever.
I’ve still got tons of podcasts to listen to and watch, and I have some shows downloaded already that I haven’t even started… so I guess I’m going to give the whole downloading thing a rest for a while. Feels wrong.
Pat’s not been online today. He was supposedly going to wake up at 4 am and take off, barring some change in the weather. I stayed up until like 5:30 and he was still idle, so I dunno when he actually did leave, but theoretically he’s getting closer and will be chilling before too long.
Besides all that my family, and pieces of it, have been playing that dice game, Farkle, some more. I’ve actually won twice, I think, now. Martha’s officially the unluckiest.
Martha made some cookies. I get to eat the deformed ones. And open the stuck bottle tops.
Other than that I’ve been doing a fair bit of chatting. Chat chat.
Donny, Sidney, and Pat are all being kept away by the weather. Boo to you and to them.
Also, if you have been not texting me because you’re worried about the charges to me, you can stop worrying for now.
I made it home. Not eventful.
Kim and Aaron showed up last night. We played Farkle with mom, except Aaron quit like a baby because it was too complicated or something. I won that game. Mom beat me handily twice before. There’s a lot of luck involved.
Other than that, not much has happened. Couple inches of snow on the ground outside, which doesn’t affect me since I don’t leave the love-seat. Football is on, dad’s doing. Football is silly.
Martha didn’t make it home yesterday, got stuck in Salt Lake. She’ll be here soon, though.
So I went outside with nothing but my shorts on and flexed and roared and looked primal. Nobody was around to take pictures, though.
I’m pretty alone in Anderson tonight. The girls fled for fear of weather. They all made it home fine, except Megan who apparently had an incident. I think those things have to be self fulfilling or something. She’s fine though, just slid around a bit or something.
The main Asians are still here. They made me dinner and I made them dessert. They’re all leaving early tomorrow to go on a grand vacation adventure.
Mom’s coming to get me tomorrow and take me home. Just Aaron and Kim for the first few days, but Pat’s coming back, and Donny, and Sidney may even visit. Should be fun times.
Donny was up visiting but he ran away, too. He’s got this cool work setup where he has to drive back to Portland every weekend. Neato, huh?
I got an A in 480, that’s the capstone class. I got A-‘s in Boris’s classes, which is good, considering. I somehow only got a B in Physics, even though it was probably the easiest class. I think most of the blame falls on having a final at 8 am. I don’t do well at 8 am. It’s ok, though, was taking it just for fun and all. Grades were up really fast this quarter.
I should sleep so I can wake up when or before mom get’s here. Sidney actually updated her blog. There are videos featuring my voice from when we went to Lauren’s house last weekend. That’s all for now.
Butterscotch, the family/sister’s cat, is dead.
I’ve been fairly absent for like a week, so now you get treated to the quick update post.
Thanksgiving break happened. Yusuke came home with me and the dinner was just the parents and us. I think Yusuke fed himself better this year. The dinner was good. I like turkey.
Other than eating I hung out with Kim and Aaron a bit and watched a bunch of podcasts and TV shows. I watched all of Undergrads under recommendation from fairly trusted sources but didn’t like it. I don’t think I really loled once except on the episode I watched with Kim and Aaron, and that was mostly because of our jokes, not the show’s. /shrug
Since I’ve been back at school I’ve been working long hours on a Software Engineering presentation I gave today. We were the first group. I think our group did the best, and I did as well as can be expected for my part. Now we have this ridiculous design document due Friday we’ve got to work on. Once that’s done, and I finish up some crappy mundane assignments for Algorithms, all I have left is finals. Can go home on Thursday.
The other big news is photographed below. Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, and to those who don’t, please enjoy this arbitrary gift I give you.
All pictures taken by Aki. Miho would have gotten some up here, but she deleted hers. tsk tsk.