My mom sent this to me today. Apparently I drew this. I was probably around 8 considering my amazing artistic ability. Who knew it would become a life long obsession?

I may not be flying first class, but at least I'm flying. I'm headed to New York next week for an interview for grad school. Upon landing back in Los Angeles I'm heading straight for Las Vegas for skiing, gambling, and insurrection of daily life. Then back to Mammoth to get a few spring days of skiing and a last bit of work in before flying into Geneva to make way to Chamonix, France. I'll be making an excursion out to Paris and Italy before heading back to Los Angeles.

Of course this entire time I'll be working to some degree, hopefully less in France, but I'm sure I'll have some sort of project to work on. In the mean time, I am starting work on an Orange County bikini company (Killer Kini Bikini.) Seems like a pleasant project to get my head back into the mindset of sunshine and tan lines instead of spf 50 to avoid goggle tan lines.

Ah... the future. She is being kind this year.

I feel like I have done so much and yet so little in the last month. I have been far too entertained to spend any significant period of time on the computer. Maybe 5 hours total last month. I suppose that is a good thing. It means I have spent less time in the mundane world of status updates and internet drama.

Instead, I did my first backcountry skiing, spent 2 days demoing 10/11 skis, booked my New York adventure, am making plans to hit up Chamonix in April and have worked countless hours at the shop.

I feel like I should go into depth about how much fun it was having no idea what I was doing skiing/falling down the back side of Mammoth, or how much I love Stokli's new Stormrider for women, but I much rather just let you know that there are 2 feet of fresh snow here, I get to ski all day tomorrow with blue skis and fresh snow, and that my creative abilities have returned.

Maybe i'll write something else later.

I went skiing today. It's been a while due to the pneumonia situation. It was nice but difficult to breath... But hey, I survived right? It was actually pretty fantastic. I only made it about two hours before my lungs began to protest -- a great two hours.

Anyway, I took out the Salomon Shogun today in a 164. Really fun ski, wish I had had more time with it. I was just amazed how well it handled the groomed runs. A few of the rocker skis I have taken out have been less than stable when entering the "slow" zones. I will say I think I still prefer the Phat Luv on less steep terrain. I noticed myself sinking a little more than I would have liked. It could have been the snow conditions; over 4 feet of fresh heavy snow. On the steeper terrain they were fantastic, had I been up for it I would have loved to try some spins, but my body wasn't feeling it.

I would definitely like to give these skis another shot when my lungs are more capable. We are supposed to have a break in snow and then more Monday - Wednesday. Maybe next Thursday will be the day and I can give them a proper review.

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So turns out there have been a lot of hard drive failures from the run of hard drives they were installing when I got my new one. I thought I was just cursed, turns out Mac made a mistake for plenty more.

Anyway, after about 3 hours of research I found a temporary fix that should be good enough to keep working until this storm ends and I can make it to a mac store. Hopefully someone finds this useful.

So for search engine sake: My computer was booting to the grey screen with a ticking noise and not going beyond that. Also before that happened the computer wasn't reading the wireless card as being installed and I was able to run disk utility before it quit booting all the way.

So after said research I found this on mac-forums.com

Reboot holding down the Apple and "s" key to reboot in single user mode.

Once a bunch of text loads, type fsck -fy

So the storm is here. Over 2 feet so far with around 8 more to come. Makes for an interesting time.

Anyway, may not have another update for a while. My computer is down for the second time in 3 months. I'm really hoping my warranty is still good if I call tomorrow to get it fixed next week when the warranty is up Friday...?

Aside from that, I had the flu/sinus infection/pneumonia this week. That sucked. Still recovering from that.

Still waiting to find out if my car will be ready friday or not.

So basically what I'm saying here is that my car is broke, computer is broke, and my body is broke.

Now I'm thinking about moving back down to LA for the rest of the season and becoming a dreaded weekend warrior provided I can get everything back in order before the season is over.

So, if you need any website work completed after next Monday, let me know. Business is hard when your computer breaks in the middle of a snow storm.

EDIT: Computer is doing better... and I don't want to be a weekend warrior. Fortunately I got a bit more work which should keep me here a while longer.