School

The Cafe changed out the lemonade for Lemon Gatorade. I’ll can see myself drinking that for the rest of year. Nice to actually have something healthy to drink, other than water.

First day back sucked, as it should. Who would want to go back to school? I didn’t do as well on my Calc test as I wanted to do, but I was less than one standard deviation away from the class average, so that makes it better. I got an 83 on my web programming test, which was significantly better than I thought.

Last day of skiing was awesome. I skied with the CSM Ski Bums and that was awesome. Brian Buller is a crazy ridiculous skier and Carl broke one of his skis going off a cliff. I finally went off Corbit’s, after looking down the canyon for about 10 minutes, I just went. It was awesome and I can’t wait to go back. After skiing, we hung out at the Hostel with everybody else from the trip. Then we stopped by another group�s bratwurst fest. They were from Wisconsin and drove all the way out.

Today was another great day of skiing, although I skiied by myself today, unlike yesterday when I skiied with Maddie and Owen. Maddie’s from Amherst, Massachusetts and took a year off to ski at JH. Next year she’s going to Georgetown University. Owen is her brother and is up from Amherst on Spring Break.

Anyways, today was a good day of skiing, despite not having as much fresh snow as yesterday. All I can say is that I’m tired and really need to go to bed, now.

I had the pleasure (not) of waking up at 6:30 this morning just so I could make first tracks with Peter. I had a look over Corbit’s, a very radical jump, twist, and drop at the top of the Tram. Peter gets 40% off food at JH, so that’s cool. We had burgers at a great place in Jackson for dinner.

We finally left Golden around 4:30ish yesterday. The problem ended up being a fuel filter. Fuel pressure was as 2,000 PSI instead of 25,000 PSI. As it turned out, it was almost time to replace the filter anyways. However, going back to Golden was a good think, I was able to pick up Peter’s copy of the Shasta Blasta 2004 DVD (which should be availible online shortly).

So we drove for the rest of yesterday and into today and got in Jackson Hole at 2am MST. I tried sleping on the air matress, but it just didn’t cut it, so I slept on the couch, which was actually pretty comfortable.

We were about 20 minutes out of Golden when Rob, director of the ORC and our trip leader, noticed the “Check Engine” light illuminated on the ‘Digger Bus. Being cautious, Rob called the school, and then the Ford service number, and then a taxi van, and finally a tow truck. We went back to Golden, I grabbed a bite to eat with some of the other people going on the trip and then we headed over to the Coors Lab where I was identified as being over 21 and given the appropriate wrist band to get free alcohol. I actually didn’t know I wasn’t supposed to have it until one of the guys on our trip told me I wasn’t. Rather ironic that someone from Coors gave me the wrist band too. Despite the minor over sight, no alcohol was consumed on my part. Hopefully we’ll be leaving soon.