Goggles

We managed to go skiing this weekend because there have been some places around us that have gotten feet of snow in the past two weeks and we figured we had a day off, we may as well go enjoy some of the fresh powder on the slopes around us.  We were going to try Telemark skis until we realized we didn’t want to waste some of the best powder this year learning to ski.  We’ll try those on some of the smaller (and cheaper) slopes around here another weekend.  It’s just doing lunges all the way down the mountain, but I’ll let you know if 1) it’s that simple and 2) I’m any good at it.

We all escaped without serious injury though my ski goggle did break.   The middle lift that took us to the top of the mountain was kind of quick and I was a little too tall.   I did alright for most of the day, but one time I didn’t duck in time and the bar knocked the goggles right off the top of my helmet.   They were connected to the back of the helmet with the snap strap, so they didn’t fall off, the hinge that connects the strap to the side of the face piece just snapped. I got them from REI though, so I’ll just take them in for an exchange.   I’m surprised they snapped that readily, but the lift did knock my helmet pretty hard.

Work has been going really well and it looks like the daily workload has leveled out to a manageable amount; we’re no longer bringing work home in the evening simply to get out of the building and have a slight change of scenery.   I do miss working at home because of the people I have around me there, but the group I’m working with here has been an absolute blast thus far so it’s a great change of scenery and we do get to do a lot of things here that aren’t really available back home.

All my mail has been arriving to my new address because we all put in a change of address request and I think it’s just now catching up in the system.  Amazingly, USPS does not forward bulk mail.   That is great for us because we have three people that changed our address to a location here and getting four sets of bulk mail (one for each of us and then the set we already get for having a mailbox) would be a bit overwhelming.  Thank you, USPS, for doing something moderately logical!