Blatant Obfuscation

Yesterday I decided to go snowboarding. That really isnt true. It was more last Friday and from there it just came to be.
Johnny came down from SLC to pick me up so we weren't worrying with travel time on Monday and I spent the night at his place. It was a good evening Sunday night and we ended up watching Out Cold, which make me laugh when I see it.
So Monday came and we went boarding. Yes it was great. The snow was good. I had some problems more because I need to get my board waxed, but other than that, it was a beautiful day. There was hardly a cloud in the sky and even then it was a nice and sunny. I started out in a Jacket, which was quickly removed in lieu of a t-shirt underneath. I would have been in shorts had I a place to have put my lift ticket. I was told it was in the 60s in the valley and it wasnt much colder up in at the resort.
For most of the day I played with Johnny, which meant I boarded, working on small technical stuff, while he was getting re-use to the snowboarding concept. Again we made plenty of good runs [at times I was in the trees] and had a good day of it.
There were hardly anyone on the slopes, the only real lines were getting up the first lift and then the 1:00pm half day people arriving, other than that, we boarded in relative calm and quite. It was a good thing for me. [Okay really I blew off all my classes to go play]
My finest moment came on the last run which I went into the snowpark to try some jumps. I had avoided it all day as I was with Johnny. I did make it in there on my last run and hit one of the upper jumps to land beyond where I was planning and caught my edge and then rolled a good distance. After stopping I got back up, made sure I was all there and then took down the hill towards the last jump, but due to being slightly gun-shy at that point I didnt get the speed needed and barely got any air.
I was able to get down the hill in relative ease and stood waiting for Johnny to show up for 10 minutes. Afterwards we packed it up and headed down the hill.

A side note is I am sore and have a sunburn. They two are not related but should be mentioned. I am sore from the bad biffing of the first jump and I am sunburned because well I burn then tan the first time i go out in the sun come spring...hopefully this will be the only real burn i get this year.

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Since the beginning of the new year I have been located in an office in the Talmage building's 3rd floor. And so for the last 2 months I have been making the office a place that I can work or at least be at so that I am not completely loosing my mind.

So over the last week, it has become my second home [there is a lot of reasoning for this]. As it is I have finished the change/addition of stuff. Now if people need to find me, I would look in my office.

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We were easily removed from the Tournament in our second game. I felt as a team we played well. We were pressing the other team enough. We were passing it beautifully and even making shots on goal.

Our downfall was the quality of the shots were were taking. Although we had the shots, they were not the well placed. The other team beat us because the people could put the ball into the corners of the goal and they were good at it. I had felt that if we could have gotten past that team we would have a good go for the championship game in our bracket.

Oh well. The 7-2 loss is nothing to worry about.

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