man, this needs a repeat button — simply fantastic! Someone likes watching this as much as I do, and saved me the time of watching all the parts in between. SWEET.
Check out this awesome (free) audio podcast (link goes to specific episode) from Hillsong London. It’s a guest speaker talking about addiction in the context of science and Christianity. It is AWESOME!
Many thanks to Stubby for passing this on to me!
We seriously need to invent a pill that i ingest on sunday evening, and wake up friday morning… go into work and hear accolades like “man Tim you got a lot done this week!” “gee you really nailed that presentation!” … have a long lunch, go home early, and have another weekend.
Get on it people.
SPRING IS COMING! man my bike is calling. It is fast weather here: rain/sun/rain/sun/rain all in one day. And not just a bit of sun between clouds but full on blue sky warmth. Sweet. Except the rain. Less sweet. But i need to keep remembering all the fun things that are coming when life gets difficult … well not life, but work i guess… Venice in a week and a bit, Tuscany in early May (with Kevin! BONUS!), and countless bikerides on weekends in between… photography of spring bloom, man: it can’t come soon enough.
Didn’t sleep well last night so read for an hour and went to bed, now i’m exhausted and i have drumpractice tonight at ICF. It might not go so well 
The weekend has finally arrived. Finally: it was a long week. Work hasn’t been easy but hasn’t been overly hard either. Which is difficult in its own way (no right to complain, but not feeling easy). Today we walked around taking photos of Robert, a guy from our church – he bid on this as part of a fundraising we did earlier for our church. Ok great… but he never smiles and always squints. Challenging to say the least 
last night i hit up a jazz club (saw “pools”, swiss jazz trio play – 3 young guys, bass/drums/piano. quite good!) and then got home and for some reason ended up playing around with a new website for showing off photos. Yeah. Like that’s a worthwhile investment. Needless to say it was 1:30am all of a sudden. Damn you photoshop, i wish i knew how to use you! (Lightroom’s all i know for now).
Tomorrow we’re going snowshoeing. I was / am supposed to play squash, but this is mega difficult for weekends because it takes up a couple hours, and the guy i play with doesn’t want to do it afternoon/evening. In the morning is when you want to start the main day’s activity… like skiing or snowshoeing… grr.
Ok time to start playing more with that other website. I’ll leave you with this:
As usual facebook farked up – this time it ate all the captions i wrote on the snowshoeing photos. grr. I’d meant to blog it anyways…
Saturday night the original plan was that i’d go skiing with a bunch of work friends, but since i’d ditched D on saturday for her sledding thing (was too wiped from friday night seeing Raffi off to Mexico) we decided to go snowshoeing. We found a hike and I could tell from the weather forecast that we wouldn’t get good weather until the afternoon, but i’ll be the first to admit that I had no idea how bad the fog would be. I’d directly link in photos here, but there’s no integration between wordpress and gallery3 yet – and for whatever reason, gallery3 guys don’t think it’s worthwhile. Wait, what?! yeah yeah i know, i should just dust off old coding skills and hack this up myself…
Anyways we get off the bus and luckily so do 3 other people, who then ask us where we’re going and thankfully it’s the same as them. At this point I was looking up at the cloud ceiling – about 100 feet off the ground! – and thinking i’ll never find the trailhead. Off we went.
When the trail forked we opted to stay in a little gulley, climbing up beside a river. I presume we chose this because there was less fog in the gully, made sense to me. It was tough slogging! No trail had been made and we were climbing pretty fast, with lots of awkward traverses across steep bits. I got crazy sweaty instantly, and my legs were really feelin’ it… After hours of slogging through this we got up to what I presume is meadows in the summer time. It was completely fogged in – couldn’t see much. The fog started to freeze to us (my fave pic of the bunch). We had a good track to follow at this point and thank goodness – without it one would be completely lost in the fog. It also made for easier slogging…
After climbing a little more we reached Vorder Hoehi, which is basically just a barn that in the wintertime is converted into a place for beers and wurst. I presume the cows are moved somewhere warmer. We were a little surprised, we’d hoped for somewhere warm with Rosti but the wurst was good and we were happy for anything at all at that point! We chatted with our travelling companions and they told us of their recent trip to BC and the icefields hwy, which they’d enjoyed. I had some “moscht” (sp?) – basically fizzy alcoholic applejuice but waaaay less sweet than the stuff you get in NA. Then we were off again. We’d gotten stiff and cold sitting in there … it was hell getting the snowshoes laced back up. Worse, a breeze had kicked up and my snowshoe laces were totally frozen stiff. After some humming and hahing we were off. The fog had somehow intensified - luckily after some false starts we found the trail downwards the other side. And down in the big puffy fresh snow we had is a lot of fun! You basically freefallrun (new word) straight down. I loved that. Soon the fog began to clear and we came down below the cloud ceiling. We were now on the other side of the mountain – so i guess there were less clouds/fog there… In the distance we could see sunshine!
Walked on and came to a long flat bit with a rather stunning view either side of craggy snowy mountaintops poking out of bits of cloud. It was a very enjoyable walk: mostly virgin powder with blue sky above and sunshine coming and going. Eventually we popped out at a ski area, walked down a bit and found the bus toward home after saying a friendly goodbye to our travelling companions.
Hope you enjoy the pics.