Splacknuck
I played Baulderdash or maybe it was 'Beyond Baulderdash' for several hours last night. I happened to be playing with some old friends from Texas, one of which attends BYU and the other who was up for a visit and to snowboard. As we were playing on of the words that came up was 'splacknuck' and as I recall the definition on the card is was something on the line of 'odd looking person or animal.' I like the word.
So let me back track some. Saturday morning I woke up before I normally would have, to go do some snowboarding with my friends. So being up before the crack of dawn [actually up before the crack of noon] threw me for a loop as I was trying to get everything that I would need to have for the day. I thought that included some Advil.
Getting out the door and then up to the slopes, we started to do runs and enjoying the day. The conditions on the slopes were okay, but not the best. It was a little crusty and icey for my taste but at the same time I was enjoying myself. For the first run and the start of the second run everything was alright. As I went to follow the guys down the slopes I had a rude high school idiot ( I assume this only by his appearance) cut immediately in front of me and then biffed what ever he had planned. The action of cutting across startled me but the biffing shortly thereafter made me over correct myself. As I got a face full of snow I felt my right-knee twist and tweak a little too much. I initially got up only to have a sharp pain in my knee. So I plopped down off to the side of the run.
Having thought I had Advil in my I searched my pack and couldn't find the Advil. [I had left it on the kitchen counter] After a few minutes of recuperation I got up and with only a slight pain in my leg, boarded down the hill, not being able to find my companions, I went inside the Lodge to find some painkillers or a wrap for m knee. I had no luck finding any. So I rested a little bit more and then went back up the slope to have another try at it.
So I had a couple good runs out of it, and ended up meeting back up with Randy and Chris. After some riding up the lift and getting off to an okay start, I had my knee start giving on me. I stayed up as much as I could with them, but alas after a couple of runs I had lost them and would only meet up with them once or twice during the day. It seems that the more the knee would hurt the more severe the next fall got.
On one of my final runs for the day and the one that convinced me to call it basically, I was coming down a nice black diamond run, boarding outside my skill level, the run had a nice steep patch to it that I was able get some speed on as well as a couple nice little jumps off, when I caught my toe-side edge and ended rolling down the slope the last 75 yards or so.
Gathering myself after that one, I went to the lodge to rest my knee in hopes that would help. After and hour the knee felt fine, and I went up the mountain to locate Randy and Chris. As I was cutting over from the top of one lift to another that would take me further up the slopes, I had a rude boarder come up and as he caught his edge next to me, knocked me in such a way that I caught my edge and went off of the trail in to some crusty powder and a near by tree.
Sitting in the powder and having my knee in the cold, felt good as I waited to get back up. The guy who knocked me quickly got up and was gone with out saying a thing. I have words to say about a jerk like that, but they probably arent the best to say.
So I met up with my friends at the bottom and after some talk decided that the 5 to 6 hours of boarding they had gotten in [i was about 4 hours worth] that we could call it good for the day. I spent most of the night and then Sunday recovering from that experience, but it was good.
So back to sunday night and the Baulderdash game. We decided to do something about 9:30-ish and decided to give Baulderdash a try. We had a good time of it, and it wasn't until we were about 2/3 of the way thru the game that I noticed that it was after-midnight and I had classes in less than 8 hours and that wasnt a good thing.
The game dragged on until 1 or so in the morning. After a quick walk to my apartment I quickly found myself into bed with setting several alarms around me to get me up in the 5 hours I had to sleep in. I missed my first one and was lucky I staggered the second one. I got up and was out the door in enough time to get to my first class at 8 am.
More later on....must stay awake...