Monday, January 16, 2006
Yesterday was horrible!
Out on a whim (and a phone call from a snow-addicted co-worker), i decided to head off to the hills, original destination: northstar.
My brother and Jenny were willing to head along so with delilah packed, we started on our usual time of 6am.
Got to Auburn ok, but saw signs saying that chains were needed, i forgot to bring them. Fine i wanted cables anyway, the chains were old school and was killing delilah. So went to our normal jack in the box spot, Jenny wanted a Sourdough breakfast sandwich. All this sandwich had was, bread, cheese, and egg. Somehow the order taker can only understand the phrase 'breakfast jack' so she assumed jenny ordered a Breakfast jack. My brother saw the ticket and went and asked that the sandwich be changed, they said ok, refunded the amount. When the order came, it had an extra Breakfast jack on the tray. ookay extra goodies, a few minutes later the same order taker tries to give us another breakfast jack, because maybe she forgot? What she forgot was that it was still the wrong sandwich. i dunno about going back to that jack in the box, i've had a lot of wierd experiences with them. ALOT.
After that, onto the road ahead. After 30min into the drive theres massive traffic, is it an accident? Whats going on? What happened was there was a chain checkpoint, where three freeway lanes were smooshed to one. Well suns been out for a while and they decide that chains were not required, yet they forgot to take back the cones. That kinda irritates.
So we head on some more and then reach another traffic jam, okay whats this one about? Traffic was going about 20mph. We don't know until we get to sugarbowl / norden exit, which was 2hrs later. What was it? Two snow plows that were plowing asphalt, and they were a mile or so away from each other. So Peoples had to manuever around them, jeez! At this time we decide to go to Boreal, since 1)we weren't gonna arrive till noon, 2)it's the closest, cheapest and it closes later, 3)they had that $700k 'whole mountain' terrain park deal.
We get there at noon and parked out in the supercutty, the lot was packed. We board for a bit and ate. The only plus of today was lots of virgin powder snow, and Jennys first to float on the pillowy-soft stuff. At 2:30pm the lodge was like a refugee camp, bloody people left n right. Theres a superlong line to get food too! argh!
My brother realizes that he might have dropped his snowboard tool and his walkie talkie on one of the runs. Ok, after we eat, we hafta go up the middle to get down to the side where the run was at. We get there and it's closed, they close the lift at 3:30pm. WEAK! We ask to see if we could walk up the run, nope, skii patrol will kick you down.. Right then both of us vow never to go back to "Boring Hill" ever again. $700k investment?? on what? We didn't see jack, other than a bunch of boxes and rails that were parked on the side of the base. what a rip. We did 4 runs in 4 hours. 4 boreal runs.
Screw it, lets get out, it's 4pm. At least i brought my Mint Choco Milk with Godiva Liquor, heated on the coleman stove. So it's around 4:30 or so and we're packed n what not. Off to home, well we get to where the snowboard shack is, and it's an uphill grade, but it's frozen over. Everybodys having problems going up the hill, spinning out n everything. And yes, i'm one of them. So what did i hafta do? Put chains on JUST to get out of the parking lot. That took a bit to do but we get to the freeway entrance at 5:30. Yea, a bit frustrating. Oh wait theres more!
By the time we get to the freeway everybodys left the other snowparks, yes, traffic going back home. I finally reached home at 11pm.
I'm gonna need a whole lotta angels to help me on that day.
So from this mess comes more rules.
1)Never going back to Boreal, they really need the accelerator type lifts.
2)Never going on a 3-day holiday
3)That Jack in the Box in auburn has gotten too silly.
i get home and find the living room shifted.
Shift Happens.
Today fluffielady and i chilled and hung out. Made some Para Ammo. And ate at the Hyde Street Seafood house.. Mmm Sturgeon 'En Papillote', cooked in parchment paper. Tastes like mahi mahi sorta. And creme brulee for dessert.. Yumm.. Ugh, now back to work, bah! I forgot to mention on friday it was strangly wierd when Terrence Hallinan sits next to you n chats about random things. Oh and since i've only been floating around in my new position for 2 weeks, i can truly say that the phrase 'the grinding wheels of justice' is the perfect description. Well in S.F. it should be 'the ultra slow griding wheels of justice'. When cases in S.F. take 3-5 years to complete, and cases in San Mateo take a year or so.
Out on a whim (and a phone call from a snow-addicted co-worker), i decided to head off to the hills, original destination: northstar.
My brother and Jenny were willing to head along so with delilah packed, we started on our usual time of 6am.
Got to Auburn ok, but saw signs saying that chains were needed, i forgot to bring them. Fine i wanted cables anyway, the chains were old school and was killing delilah. So went to our normal jack in the box spot, Jenny wanted a Sourdough breakfast sandwich. All this sandwich had was, bread, cheese, and egg. Somehow the order taker can only understand the phrase 'breakfast jack' so she assumed jenny ordered a Breakfast jack. My brother saw the ticket and went and asked that the sandwich be changed, they said ok, refunded the amount. When the order came, it had an extra Breakfast jack on the tray. ookay extra goodies, a few minutes later the same order taker tries to give us another breakfast jack, because maybe she forgot? What she forgot was that it was still the wrong sandwich. i dunno about going back to that jack in the box, i've had a lot of wierd experiences with them. ALOT.
After that, onto the road ahead. After 30min into the drive theres massive traffic, is it an accident? Whats going on? What happened was there was a chain checkpoint, where three freeway lanes were smooshed to one. Well suns been out for a while and they decide that chains were not required, yet they forgot to take back the cones. That kinda irritates.
So we head on some more and then reach another traffic jam, okay whats this one about? Traffic was going about 20mph. We don't know until we get to sugarbowl / norden exit, which was 2hrs later. What was it? Two snow plows that were plowing asphalt, and they were a mile or so away from each other. So Peoples had to manuever around them, jeez! At this time we decide to go to Boreal, since 1)we weren't gonna arrive till noon, 2)it's the closest, cheapest and it closes later, 3)they had that $700k 'whole mountain' terrain park deal.
We get there at noon and parked out in the supercutty, the lot was packed. We board for a bit and ate. The only plus of today was lots of virgin powder snow, and Jennys first to float on the pillowy-soft stuff. At 2:30pm the lodge was like a refugee camp, bloody people left n right. Theres a superlong line to get food too! argh!
My brother realizes that he might have dropped his snowboard tool and his walkie talkie on one of the runs. Ok, after we eat, we hafta go up the middle to get down to the side where the run was at. We get there and it's closed, they close the lift at 3:30pm. WEAK! We ask to see if we could walk up the run, nope, skii patrol will kick you down.. Right then both of us vow never to go back to "Boring Hill" ever again. $700k investment?? on what? We didn't see jack, other than a bunch of boxes and rails that were parked on the side of the base. what a rip. We did 4 runs in 4 hours. 4 boreal runs.
Screw it, lets get out, it's 4pm. At least i brought my Mint Choco Milk with Godiva Liquor, heated on the coleman stove. So it's around 4:30 or so and we're packed n what not. Off to home, well we get to where the snowboard shack is, and it's an uphill grade, but it's frozen over. Everybodys having problems going up the hill, spinning out n everything. And yes, i'm one of them. So what did i hafta do? Put chains on JUST to get out of the parking lot. That took a bit to do but we get to the freeway entrance at 5:30. Yea, a bit frustrating. Oh wait theres more!
By the time we get to the freeway everybodys left the other snowparks, yes, traffic going back home. I finally reached home at 11pm.
I'm gonna need a whole lotta angels to help me on that day.So from this mess comes more rules.
1)Never going back to Boreal, they really need the accelerator type lifts.
2)Never going on a 3-day holiday
3)That Jack in the Box in auburn has gotten too silly.
i get home and find the living room shifted.
Shift Happens.Today fluffielady and i chilled and hung out. Made some Para Ammo. And ate at the Hyde Street Seafood house.. Mmm Sturgeon 'En Papillote', cooked in parchment paper. Tastes like mahi mahi sorta. And creme brulee for dessert.. Yumm.. Ugh, now back to work, bah! I forgot to mention on friday it was strangly wierd when Terrence Hallinan sits next to you n chats about random things. Oh and since i've only been floating around in my new position for 2 weeks, i can truly say that the phrase 'the grinding wheels of justice' is the perfect description. Well in S.F. it should be 'the ultra slow griding wheels of justice'. When cases in S.F. take 3-5 years to complete, and cases in San Mateo take a year or so.
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