Archive for November, 2008

If you’ve ever had the pleasure of joining my family for Thanksgiving, you know that we’re a family of noisy, rowdy people. Each year we host the aunts, uncles and all the kids from both sides of my parent’s families, and as a world-wise family hosting a distinctly American holiday, we toss in a half [...]

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Many of you may not know that I am a Clif bar aficionado. I eat one nearly every day, and I can rattle off the prices and selection at the most of the convenience stores within biking distance. At Ragnar, our team ran 206 miles in 29 hours, fueled almost exclusively by Clif bars and energy [...]

, Category: Gear

I spent the morning at Cascade Mountain and they were making snow. Word has it that temperature and humidity are just barely in the range for daytime snowmaking, so they’re able to go in about 20 hour shots with little melt off. Optimistic opening day is still pegged at next Saturday, and while there’s no [...]

Tags: , Category: Skiing

I took a bit of time to fix things up last night, so now the sidebar is looking better and the search page works in the theme. Also I’ve gotten a little creative with the search form itself. That is, I got rid of the clunky, windowsy submit button, and replaced it with a shiny [...]