New Addiction

For the first time in my life, after numerous tries, I finally pulled myself out of the water onto a wakeboard. It felt strangely natural and came to me very quickly. I now understand first-hand the ravings I have heard from so many of my friends and I say they are all understated. I am in love with wakeboarding, even though I am far from experienced enough to call myself a "wakeboarder". I will be one by the end of the summer.

Fuel like a champion

"If you want to win, you gotta fuel like a champion!"
-Dwight Schrute, The Office

Memories

Find it

As the semester ends, time flings us all into yet another scorching work-and-play filled summer. Although I expect this summer to be very rewarding, it doesn't bring as much anticipation as the last two summers. I've come to understand that we all are on a never-ending search for happiness. I've thought alot about times when I have been really happy in the past. When I look at this picture, I get a surging sensation of freedom and happiness. Being completely free and alone, for three days of hopping the islands of Southeast Alaska, I came to a city that I have longed to return to ever since I set foot there. The city of Petersburg, Alaska. A small town at the foot of the massive Stakine Mountain Range. The Devil's Thumb rises 10,000 feet above the town and dwarfs the many small fishing boats that dot the harbor. No matter how mundane or redundant every day life can be, I always look back to the adventure and freedom that I felt in Alaska.

Benchmark

I am pleased to announce that my advertisements have reached 1 million screen impressions. In six months, between google and facebook, advertisements for my website have shown on peoples' screen 1 million separate times. Of these, only about 5,000 have actually gone to my site, but I feel like more of an accomplished person to say that some part of my business reached a million. That's a cool number to say.

Global Cooling

Even though we've had the best winter ever, I'm excited for the warm weather to return. I think that the global warming is going on where the hippies are and so it just keeps staying cold here. It's strange that the majority of people that are concerned about global warming are people who live in naturally warm climates (e.g. California, Florida). I think they're just tired of living where it's hot all the time. I'm starting to think that we should fight back with complaints of global cooling. We got over two feet of snow in the last two days at brighton. I'm sorry, but if the globe is heating up so much, we wouldn't be getting powder days in mid-april.

Apruary

Living in Utah, I am constantly reminded that this is some of the best snow in the world. March is an interesting month. It should be a spring month, but it just keeps wanting to be a winter month. This picture of the last day of march sums up how this winter has been. As if we already haven't had enough amazing powder days on the mountain, we might just get one more week of it. Seems too good to be true.