it all works out, i guess

there i was last friday, despondent that all my plans to go to tahoe had fallen apart. 18+ feet of fresh snow, and i was going to be sitting at home in san francisco, with the only white covering in sight being a sleepy cat on my lap. where were all my former snowbunnies? either felled due to sickness (joy), nesting (kmf), or lameness (dr.mike), leaving me without resort.

but i guess when without other options, just ask your community and they shall provide! luckily i hooked up with amy and jeff from the RS, and they let me tag along for the weekend. they’re nice, they appreciated that i allowed them to use the carpool lane, and they’re pro-stripper.

i got to hit sugar bowl one day and northstar the next. the snow was great and the resorts were a little crowded, but i got some good boarding in and that made it all worthwhile. i also got to try out my giro tuneups, which are earpads that snap right into my helmet that have speakers built in! that allowed me to plug my ipod into my helmet and listen to beautiful jazz while sliding down the slopes. that’s a pretty great experience, let me tell you.

alas, when i went to northstar, due to some reconfiguration due to circumstances, i somehow managed to lose my phone. that is, i put my phone in my breast pocket with my wallet, and then sometime in the afternoon when i went to check it for messages in case the people from the cabin i rode with that day were trying to contact me, i noticed that a) my pocket was open and b) while my wallet was still in there, my phone was not.

however, it turned out all right, as by the time i got back home to the city, there was a message on my voicemail from northstar, saying that they had found my phone. i called them this morning, managed to identify my phone, and they’re going to send it back to me.

moral of the story: always have an entry called “home” in your phone address book.

being without a phone is kind of unsettling, however. all of a sudden not only can people not really reach me (ok, not that bad), but working from home is more difficult, going on sales calls and coordinating with people is harder, and i can’t even do things like participate on con-calls while driving, or check traffic conditions. i feel so… amish.

also, i’m very happy today because they finally fixed my laptop, which had undergone a relapse lobotomy, where it only thought it had half as much memory as it actually did. man, getting by with 256MB of memory is incredibly painful, let me tell you. try only being able to open one application at a time. try waiting five minutes for an app to open or close. or try waiting for half an hour for one app to switch to another, while your hard drive grinds away furiously, swapping memory to disk.

256MB? are you kidding? i’ve got usb memory sticks with more storage than that. i’m better off hiring monkeys to write things down for me with blunt sticks!

they finally replaced the motherboard (again), so i’m back to full (512MB) strength. and i just had them order an upgrade to 1GB of memory, so i can put all of these horrible times behind me.

ok, i guess i can’t really be amish if i’ve still got a working laptop. oh, and there’s that blackberry, right. what’s the amish equivalent? yelling?

Posted at January 17, 2005 9:16 PM