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.

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.

A month since my last update? Really? Probably cause they want to charge me $90 a month for high speed internet. I know, I know, I'm a webdesigner...it's a business expense... but I'm recently $500 short thanks to old man winter.

How can I blame winter for this? Well, let me explain.

It is exactly 1 month until my lease on my Subaru is over. I made my last payment today. My last insurance payment went through on Friday. Of course I had been planning on buying my car, but it now seems unlikely. You see, I parked my car Thursday night in front of my building. There is only one area to park, so no I could not have parked it anywhere else.

I was bringing in my groceries when I heard a lovely, "CRASH" followed by my car alarm blaring. I looked out the window of my apartment and saw some snow had fallen off the roof of the building. I blew it off. 20 minutes later I was leaving to return some movies, walk up to my car and the feeling of exasperation took over. My entire windshield had been shattered but not caved in, leaving my rear view mirror hanging about 4 inches from my steering wheel.

Living in LA, all my Minnesota friends like to ask if I've met Paris Hilton and the likes (for the record, I have) and I always think its funny. It really is no big deal, they are people too. But.... I have gone into total "FAN" mode this week.

Pro Skiers > Movie Stars.

Warning: Name dropping and Claim about to happen.

This week started out with having dinner with Molly and Tyler Aguirre and friends at the Chart House. Yes, she is a pro snowboarder, but still completely amazing and nice and sweet and kills it in the park and everywhere else.