YesterdayI went skiing with Toshi and Aaron. Aaron decided he wanted to enter an extreme skiing competition at SkiBowl but I declined because it cost 25 bucks and 
half the course was closed due to lack of snow... this was a big mistake because as it turns out Aaron got 3rd place and won a tasty pair of gloves and goggles. I on the other hand came away from the day with a smashed up back.
Toshi and I decided because of the conditions that we would head up to Timberline in Truckzilla to check out the park there. The resort was engulfed in a fog bank that
only rose at the end of the day as we were leaving. After a few quick runs on groomers Toshi and headed to the Park to check it out. The pipe was awful.. no only 2 feet of vertical when I need about 5 to really have a good time. Basically I need a superpipe, not a small one. So I headed to the park for the next run and after about 3 medium sized jumps and hitting them with full speed successfully I kept 
going anticipating the rest to be around the same size... nope. The 4th one I hit was enormous, and I hit it with way to much speed. Not only that but the lip of the jump was at a steeper angle than the others which through me back seat. I was much higher than I thought I would be and started to roll up the windows but it was no use. I came down hard near the bottom of the transition on my back. I used the tails of my skis to absorb as much of the impact as I could and they blew off instantly even though I had the din cranked to 13. I'd say that I fell from 15-20' up
onto ice and the only reason my back is still functional is that I was still slightly in the tranny and had good forward momentum. Regardless it knocked the wind out of me and for the next 2 hours it hurt to breath. At lunch I took some advil which is best for inflamed muscles. I felt a lot better after which made me feel better knowing that it was mostly just badly bruised muscles and not a broken disk or
spine or anything. The wierdest part of it is that my back felt best when I was twisted skiing backwards which I decided to do for the rest of the day. We left Timberline as it was dumping fresh snow, picked up Aaron at SkiBowl and headed home. Even though I was hurt and in a lot of pain I'd rather ski like that than comfortably sit in front of a UNIX computer any day!
last night was Anna and Eleanor's "Kegorita" birthday party at their place complete with a DJ, a Blue Grass Band, a pong room, birthday cake, Margaritas, a pinyatta, and of course a keg. It was a formal party so everyone had nice outfits on. Some of us had on ridiculous outfits as you can see from the photos. I was
handed a home-made "anna's special" margarita as soon as I walked in. I was sitting on the edge of the couch stiff as a board with more sore back talking to Brianna holding margarita. As I drank it slowly (I hate tequila) and talked to her my glass kept getting filled up without me noticing. It was Eleanor... walking around with the 
bottle of Jose Cuervo filling it up and making my drink stronger and stronger... I blame her for my poor game of pong with Aaron that followed in which we lost by a cup. I ended up giving my top hat and Cane to Toshi who looked a lot better with them in his suspenders. Funniest outfit of the night definitely went to Jan who came in wearing a pink blazer and the most ridiculous sunglasses ever.
As the night progressed into a total shit show of drunkeness the keg was tapped and a ridiculously large game of flip cup ensued that pitted COAS against non-COAS. COAS ran the table dominating the game, only losing once out of the 8-10 games we
played. I didn't realize it but in two games I actually played with cups of strong margaritas instead of beer.
The girls used the cane I brought to beat the hell out of the pinyatta. I found out today that it had rubber bouncy balls in it (which explained the confusion I felt this morning waking up to rubber balls in my pockets). A couple older dudes that apparently are COAS alumni wandered into the 
party that nobody new. They were harmless so we let them party for a bit with us. I guess later after I had left they asked if they could crash there and Anna sent them packin'. haha. I also heard that Anna herself finished the keg at around 4am with a keg stand... Pretty damn impressive. 
Kristin Splinter and the girls showed up later at night and I ended up walking home with Julie to make sure she got home safe (plus she only lives about 500 feet from my house). I had a great time which is clearly evident from how bad I feel today.
Somehow I managed to step on glass which I had to dig out of my foot this morning as well. Anyway... Thanks Anna and Eleanor... It was a Tasty party for sure.
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