Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Since the last post:

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  • The world has lost a planet. I think the whole thing went something like this

  • I've grown a year older (not any wiser though)

  • I've been spending a lot of time snow boarding. If I keep going like this I'll probably be buying my own gear next season. Lets hope I'll get more use out of it then my paintball gear.


Other then that, life's good, work is boring - universe is in balance :) The days are running past way too fast though. It seems like I only have time to work/eat/sleep, at least during the weekdays. I'm going to break the cycle today by going to the movies. Thank You for Smoking is the movie of choice. Hope its as good as the trailer was.

Got news of another person from my college year getting married. Its so depressing - no not for me, for them. 25 is just too young.

Thats all for now, hoping to keep this updated more often then just once a month. we'll see how that turns out.

Friday, August 04, 2006

Snow, beautiful snow

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Finally got to go snowboarding last weekend. Saturday weather was amazing but the lifts were quite full, sunday was very windy and cold but a lot less people. Unfortunately it got too windy and cold so the lifts got closed. Still had two or three hours of boarding.
I was quite happy that I still remembered how to stand up on a snowboard. This is only my 4th trip to the mountian and the last one was almost a year ago. Still having troubles with my heel turns :( and keep forgetting to use my front foot to turn but I'm learnign quick.
On the subject of quick learners - Kim was trying skiing for the first time. She must be the only sweede who doenst ski or board, but she was picking it up pretty fast. We accidently managed to take her on a blue run instead of a green one and for a while she didnt look too happy. Sorry Kim, hopefully we didnt scare you away from skiing for the rest of your life.
I managed to do a black run a few times. It wasnt any more dangerous, just quite a bit more steap. Had to take my time getting down but it was still a bit of a challenge.
All in all great weekend, cant wait till next trip.
Picture left to right is:
Aimee, myself, Chris (bottom), Kim, Rickard
Photo taken by unknown girl on a snowboard :)


In other news - Kim's laptop has been misbehaving this week. It would randomly power off after booting off a CD. Did some testing and my thought was thats its an overheating issue. Both of our brains combined could not figure out how to take apart the laptop to get to the heatsink/fan and see whats wrong. So plan B was put to action. A vacuum cleaner provided more then enough cooling for the laptop to stay stable, but it would power off 2 minutes after the vacuum cleaner was turned off. At least we got the cause of the problem sorted, now just need to find a better solution :)


Last but not least I am proud to announce that I know one famous person now :) In fact I'm flatting with him. Its a long story so I'll let mr famous himself tell it. HINT: Click the link.