Let it Snow…
We went up to Mike’s place in Keystone at the end of November and didn’t really expect there to have any good runs because there was 0″ of natural snow. The night we got up there we got 7″ of snow for some great runs. I’ve been battling a cold so I took two runs then about threw up from coughing so much. Liz rode all day. Show off.

A nice little storm was brewing last week and culminated in over a foot of powder last weekend. We battled the 3 hour drive (each way) to take some turns and it was fun-nominal. I was still sick and only able to do 2 runs but it was beautiful - fat flakes during the day and champagne powder toward dusk. If this is how the early season is, we’re going to have a fun year.

Vacation
For the second time in my life I am taking a vacation longer than a week. Liz and I bought ourselves a couple of tickets on a Hawaiian cruise in April. I’ve never been on a cruise or to Hawaii so I figured this is an opportunity to hit the high seas and eat myself silly for 15 days. We are f’n stoked, brah.

Virtualizing large cats
I upgraded my laptop to Leopard and really like it. Here are a few thoughts:

  • I’ve been an Apple fan since my Apple IIc and have enjoyed tinkering with the OS. I had to learn PC’s for work and enjoyed tinkering with its OSes. Now that I’m older I’m tired of tinkering with the operating system to get it to work - I still enjoy TWEAKING it to make it better. It’s the difference between working on your car to make it faster versus working on it to make it start. Leopard is working well and seems very solid (i.e. no crashes yet).
  • Coverflow and Quick Look are awesome for viewing all files. Those features, paired with a halfway decent way of searching, make hierarchical folders less important for filing information. I’m so bad at creating nested folders then never being able to recover files because I forgot my brilliant naming scheme 6 months later. At least this way, I can search for what I want then quickly browse through the results. Google desktop is still the best app for the habitually unorganized.
  • This has less to do with Leopard but I didn’t have anywhere else to put it. I have been running both Parallels and VMware for Windows virtualization since both were in beta and I now have a clear winner. VMware Fusion just flat out works better and faster. It may be Leopard but lately it’s just been more stable than Parallels. I keep getting the big spinning beach ball and it really started before the upgrade but has gotten considerably worse.

OK…time for bed to get some rest.

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