Posted by bronson
Wed, 01 Feb 2006 02:27:00 GMT
Cassie is modelling the champagne of beers at Jackie’s white trash party. Beautiful people were dressed up in awful clothes, a bunch of girls preggo, Skynyrd playing… It was that good. Although, there was also Journey, crimped hair and mesh tanks… Some people just can’t recognize the vast cultural difference between Miami Vice and Deliverance.
Speaking of white trash, here’s a trick that might rescue the 7904’s power supply the next time I’m at Detch’s. Of course, it requires another scope to be able to work. Is this guy’s judgement any good? It sounds plausible… Dunno. Try his really-great pizza.
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Posted by bronson
Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:20:00 GMT
Cassie and I have an exercise disconnect. I like hitting the par course on the esplanade. She doesn’t like exercising on random blocks of wood. We run at different paces, I don’t own a bike, … It seems the only exercise we have in common is Radu: we both sorta dislike it.
Yesterday we hit upon an ingenious plan. We leave the house with me running and her on the bike. After a few miles when I’m starting to sag, I take over on the bike and she starts running. It’s great – we’re together and each going at the pace we want.
Then, for the most effective workout, I destroy her rear wheel and carry the bike the four miles back home. We’ll have to try it again after I buy her a new rim.
The weather has been amazing. Sunny, mid 50s… Who needs California?
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Posted by bronson
Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:30:00 GMT
Two years ago, I dominated the search results for “Scott Bronson”. Obliterated it. Not that there was much to see – it was all mailing list archives and Be conference transcripts.
Now, apparently I’m an out-of work actor and SEO goob with msn and myspace accounts. Luckily, there’s not much overlap. If he was a programmer or skier, I’d have a problem.
I’m going to have to get more productive if I want to keep what little googlejuice I have left…
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Posted by bronson
Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:53:00 GMT
Joule took Cassie and me to Mt. Sunapee, NH for some snowboarding on Saturday. $58 for this? The prices are steep, the mountain is not. The runs in the picture, off the front and down to the lodge, are as good as it gets. And they were all tied up by ski racing. I miss Mammoth and I was just there two days ago.
On the bright side, Cassie took pretty quickly to snowboarding. And the mountain got buzzed 4 times by A-10s – hot stuff. (I remember when Mammoth would get buzzed by F-111s but that was more than a decade ago).
We’re going to have to make some more trips in the near future. I’ll just get the half-price beginner’s ticket and spend the day as a ski instructor. Sure beats sleeping all day.
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Posted by bronson
Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:56:00 GMT
Left Mammoth at noon, back in Fountain Valley by 5:30, and back in Boston by this morning. Then I accidentally slept until 2 (hey, that’s still morning California time).
The drive back was spectacularly beatuiful. Cassie’s car was a champ.
Alas, the area where 395 meets 15 has basically been ruined. Gigantic tract mansions scattered in flag-waving gated communities… It’s worse than the junk houses in Poltergeist (Google cache to avoid popups). I hope the impending downturn kicks tasteless real estate developers in the teeth. Of course, it’s hard to get too mad at them… They’re just serving an unfortunate demand.
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Posted by bronson
Thu, 05 Jan 2006 06:45:00 GMT
Getting to Dragon’s Back was hurtful but its steeps were phenomenal. It’s been a rough week but today made it all so worth it!
I leave tomorrow morning. Christmas vacation sure went quick.
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Posted by bronson
Wed, 04 Jan 2006 06:39:00 GMT
Cassie convinced me to join Facebook and Kent inspired me to join Myspace. Facebook is nice but fairly limited. Myspace is skanky and infested with ads but has more people. I don’t expect I’ll update either much but, lo, let the connections begin.
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Posted by bronson
Tue, 03 Jan 2006 23:32:00 GMT
OK, I think I’ve managed to add everything from the last three weeks. Look back and see if there’s new stuff.
Well… the mountain never really opened up. Too much wind. And Kent and I got well and truly stuck on the first run of the day. What looked like a nice gentle slope turned out to be a deep bowl of Sierra cement. We had to swim for it. It’s a rough way to start out the day.
They were blasting all day so the upper mountain should be pretty clean. The wind may let up and tomorrow! Ye, tomorrow could be the best ski day of the season.
update: Mark just showed me this graph. Check out the gigantic uptick on the yellow line. That’s what obliterated Cassie’s car yesterday.
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Posted by bronson
Tue, 03 Jan 2006 06:36:00 GMT
55 inches of snow fell last night and 36 more fell today. Here's Cassie's car.
We spent most of the day digging out cars. What did you do?
If they can clear the bowls tonight, tomorrow could be the best ski day of the season.
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Posted by bronson
Mon, 02 Jan 2006 18:10:00 GMT
From the Mammoth site:
Snow Report - Updated: Jan 2, 2006 9:26 AM
WOW! That is all I have to say. Sorry this is so late, but I was buried in the snow since 430am.
We got 50+ inches of new snow since yesterday, and it is still coming down out there. … Lifts expected to open at 10am are Broadway, Stump Alley, Thunder Bound, Chair 8, and Schoolyard.
So the mountain will basically be closed all day and avalanches have closed 395 in both directions. Looks like we’ll be inside all day except for digging out cars.
(Why I can’t just link to the snow report? I’m not too keen on Web 2.0 “innovation.”)
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