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Paul Anka was a person who may or may not have been a client of my roomate today, and he gave her all of his CD’s!! He is a two timeing man. Whoa he is a rocking rocker, rock.

The weather just took a dramitic swing for the better. I can’t wait to get out there and enjoy it! I love the weather. It is amazing what a little news can do for you.

I am going to break with tradition today by doing something that I do not normally do on my blog, that is, bleed my heart, I finally talked to Christy about the end of our relationship. It is such a strange thing to contemplate the end of a relationship, especially when the end of a relationship is reached based on entirely pragmatic concerns. Any how we have broken up, and what more she has been dating another man now for the past month, and so all issues that I may have had with figuring out closure have conveniently been answered by her, the relationship is over. I need to start dating, I need to make out, I need to feel heat, heat all around me, hot people. However I am in big sky and instead of hot people there is snow, and for now I will have to be happy with the prospect of sliding on said snow as if it were going to melt tomorrow, because I know that eventually it will, like all things, end.

Today was one of the top 5 days of my life. There is very little I can do to describe what occurred, other than to say that joy has no better voice than 17 inches of fresh powder. The turns I made today, at the Club, were second to no turns I have ever made. Powder flowed up and over my head in such regular waves that I do not know if I will ever be the same. I feel like a changed man. I still am on an emotional high. if you do not know how to ski you should learn, if you have not skied in 5 years you should get back out there, nothing in life is more fulfilling than the moments when the ground beneath you floats like a rolling carpet of velvet. G.W. would not have been so hasty to have gone to war if he were a member up here at the club, I think I should work on that. that is that, and tomorrow I will do it again. (I hope, I hope, I hope)

So with Iowa the way that it is, it’s time to start thinking about what will happen to the Democratic party in the next few months. What follows in the extended text is Thomas Friedmans take on the process, He seems to think that Kerry’s victory was a god send for the party, because Kerry is a “Blair democrat”, that is he is a canidate who, unlike dean, was for the Iraqi war because he saw the totalitarian regime of Saddam as something that needed to be eliminated, but thought that Bush did and is doing an awful job dealing with the whole affair.

I sort of have to kick myself for almost always defering to T. F. as correct, but the man has too powerful of a perspective to not be taken seriously. I think I may find myself becomeing a Kerry man. maybe not.
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There is a great deal of me that believes philosophy to the most important thing a person can spend one’s time pursuing, the other small part of me believes philosophy best be left alone in the dark part of the library. I think the second voice may well be holding sway over me by way of the fact that I have spent too much time wrestling with and taking seriously “the barren lava of Sartrean and Heideggerian definitions of Being.” I now find myself, longing for the “sensible well-lit avenues of Anglo-American empiricism and pragmatism,” but with the sneaking suspicion that it is useless.

The article from which the above quotations were drawn, takes a very interesting perspective on the way that philosophy has permeated the modern culture of western states, and compared the differences, would you believe that it is more a part of contemporary German culture than our own? Shocking but true.

So today I did a little bit of picture taking. This is lone peak and I, and here naturally is lone peak
alone.

This area is so fricken cool.

Here I am on top of lone, in front of the club, I would have a bigger smile on my face but, I’m standing above a cliff band, and I think it was making me a bit nervous.

This area is so fricken cool.

My friend David had his first solo gallery experience back in october, I suppose I should have posted a bit about it then, but I didn’t, so today is as good a day as any to give him a bit of publicity. Check him out, he will be big.

So as I was browsing Delicious and I came across this site LawMeme
which is a spin off of some sort from the Yale law school, it is filled with perspective on all of the things I wish I was filled with perspective with. I wish I had gone to an Ivy school and graduated at the top of my class so that I could go to Yale law. I really messed up. I hate having regrets. Say la veeee (he says with a redneck smile)

Dominique Perret More than anyother skier I think that this man embodies what it means to love the snow. And aside from loving the snow here is his claim to fame.

1990: World record cliff jump on skis: 36.40 meters
1991: 211.825 km/h at Portillo in Chili
1996: Descent of the north face of Everest from 8,500 meters on skis
1998: World altitude record: 120,000 meters skied non-stop in 14 hours 30 minutes.

any how, I think that I am going to buy his signature ski, a hand made swiss masterpeice, why shouldn’t a ski be a work of art?