The ground is covered with a few inches of snow like it should be this time of year .. but we haven’t had any big storms or deep cold . It’s the second year in a row with basically no winter . That’s weird for us . Winter is basically why people like us love Vermont . It’s the time to climb around Jin the woods of crampons, skis or snowshoes and pull ice Lea from your beard . It basically the reason we have beards !
In finding it hard not to have a real winter . I’m still running rather than snowshoeing. So today we decided to go look for winter
We headed to camels hump Nordic ski area which is about 8 miles behind us in Huntington to see if we could find winter
It was there . The trail system there is about 1000 feet up … about 700 feet higher than us .. and that made all the difference . Where we had 3 inches of snow .. they had 6 . That was just enough to pretend it was winter . We were able to cover about 5 miles on skis without once seeing bare ground . That’s good enough to pretend it’s winter .. and that’s all I need !
remember yesterday I said that someone had tried to get one of my credit cards reissued to him.. He even called the bank and requested it.. well today.. the same someone (i hope) tried to open 4 credit cards in my name. Luckily I am strong in the defense against dark arts. I was able to detect the new accounts because they had to pull credit reports on me and I have an alert… but I had ot call 4 different credit card companies and hut the other bastard down.. it felt so … so.. so.. gross.. kind fun though..
I’m trying to think of soem sort of wierd counter spell to conjour up.. any ideas out tehre ?
Today was interesting. got a call from the bank that someone was trying to steal one of our credit cards.. They called me to verify that it was fraud.. then the guy called them back pretending to be me.. they even recorded him. Evidently I have a strange accent and live in Canada.
made me wonder if perhaps I’m the imposter and I am confused ?
Long hard day at work.. which is the rule these days.. then a nice break. Diane and I met Gabe at Suchido for Sushi and Cake. We are celebrating my birthday early since I’ll be in Germany next week (Feb 9) when I have my real birthday
there’s a Samstone in the restaurant thats been there for years.. I always like seeing it !
which reminds me.. I took this picture earlier in the day as a rarw sunray hit one of our prisms.
Went out for beer and pizza with my friends Andy and jim. It felt so decadent actually closing my laptop at 6:30 and going out and doing something social on a “work” night.
It was great catching up… Talked about family talked about work
And as invariably happens these days talkedabout politics… A lot
Only managed to spill one beer
Now that’s something to celebrate!
Made up for the early night out by a couple hours work l later
