So I've been pretty out of it for the last few weeks. Sleeping till noon, watching lots of TV (Mostly Scrubs) and basically wasting away.
I think I am done now and I thought I would take some time to tell you about the events of the last few weeks.
Well part of the reason I have bee so out of it is that Snowdown was last week. If you remember from
last year it is a week long excuse for everyone in town to drink and dress up in costumes. Every year my friends and I participate in Lady Falconburgs Lunacy, a jeopardy (with lots of drinking) style trivia game. Well I don't remember much of the competition but we won once again, two year champions. Once again it came down to the final question and we won with some thoughtful betting, the final score was 520 - 521. The prize for first place is a $100 bar tab, and 2nd is a $50 bar tab. Some genius (and I use the term lightly) decided that it would be a good idea to combine them and use them that night so 2 hours and $150 worth of shots not a single one of the eight of us was very conscious (that does not count the 6 or 8 beers we had during the competition, chug-offs and such). Luckily Sadie had to work and arrived at the bar to pick Mike up @ around 1:30 and I snagged a ride home from them. So I got that going for me... Which is nice..
On Thursday of last week I was hungover as hell from round one of Lunacy, no $150 bar tab but still heavily drinking, so I decided that the best cure for that would be to head to Telluride by myself and do my best to exceed my abilities on skis. I succeeded. I finally rolled out of bed @ 7:30 (one of the two times I was up before noon these last few weeks) gathered my stuff hopped in the truck and headed to the mountain. For some reason I think Karma was feeling sorry for me because I had probably the best day of skiing in many years. It was snowing for the last 25 Miles of the drive and I arrived to an empty parking lot. Once on the mountain I was in heaven. There was at least 14" of new almost Utah quality snow and nobody around to ski it except me. First run, hike to the top of Prospect bowl only for the patrolman to come by and say "Last run, we are closing this area due to the snow." Awesome, I had 300 vertical feet of open face powder run, no tracks except mine and it would stay that way all day.
Every single run was like that, thigh deep powder through the trees, not another person on the mountain, and by the time I would take the run again my tracks from last time were covered from all the snow that fell! It was perfect.
Saturday morning, I joined Mark and Sarah for the Annual Punk Rock Breakfast. 8:30 AM Listening to Live Punk bands, drinking beer, and eating breakfast. What more can one ask? It doest take much that early in the morning to get drunk, and by 11:30 all three of us were nice and happy. The funny thing about that is that Friday night I was at the same bar with the same waitress until 12:00 or so. It was like I never left!
After the breakfast Mark and I decided it would be a good Idea to head up to Purgatory and ski for awhile, so we did. It wasn't the best but it was still fun. At around 4 I got back home a passed out for a few hours to rest up (and sober up) for Lunacy Finals that night.
This week has been a lot of nothing. Just recovering from last week, I am just now regaining some of the consciousness that has been missing for the last few weeks. But I am ready to go, and The Job hunt is on (It should have been on all week, but it wasn't...)
Here we go!
