Verdent

Today' word is Verdent

ver·dant     (vûrdnt)
adj.

1. Green with vegetation; covered with green growth.
2. Green.
3. Lacking experience or sophistication; naive.


Challenge, find a word with the opposite meaning and use it in a sentence.
Brown is not allowed be used.

Forgiveness is easy, once the other person gets what's coming to him.

This time I need to point out a couple of great websites one is The Door magazine, which is the worlds pretty much only religious satire magazine.


http://www.thedoormagazine.com
Check it out and if you like, please subscribe for they need all the support they can get. It's not easy going after Benny Hinn and other televanglists with 10,000 a night bodyguards.

The other is the http://www.larknews.com.

Plenty of great satire on christian news, and newsmakers and they have all types of commentary most it good. Check it out.

For in this thing called the christian culture we need a lot more satire. For too many people take being a christian way too seriously.

Lost...

Okay, i'm just a little bit late with this notice

Lost
White Nokia cell phone on 1/17/05
If found contact #31 Chutes apt building.
Mammoth Lakes, Ca.

Just doing my civic duty to help them out.


Next time...hmmm good question

Roommates

Okay, so I was going to talk about snow removal which is an intresting topic considering that mammoth lakes gets 450 inches of snow a year. But I will be saving that for another time. Instead I will talk a bit about employee housing. Throughout the town there are over 600 beds allocated for employee housing. Ranging from the brand new chutes which are very nice apartments with indivual rooms to the white stag and the ullr which even though they are four people to a room, they should pretty much just knock out the walls and doors and have a wide open barracks because you pretty much can get into any room with your vons card. A great place to say the least. In addition to those places there are several other options throughout town to fit most needs. Plus the other housing arangements throughout town for that you find out once you been here for a bit. Namely condos. So there's a lot of different opitions available. The thing that makes the difference despite how good or bad the property is roomates. Living in employee housing can be very rough because drinking is one of the primary time killers of employees and dealing with it's consequences is not always very fun. So while there are some bad places to live there are good places to be in. It all depends on the roomates which in employee housing you always don't get to pick your roomates and that's where things can get intresting. Thankfully for the most part when i have been living in the Yellowstone dorms and here except for the first night. I have been paired with pretty good roomates and that has made all the difference in the world. In my suite there are six of us. Clay a classic blond haired surfer, Dan the 1800 mammoth guy. My self, the June mtn guy. And then's there internationals who all work as ski instructers at canyon lodge. Ian from British Columbia in Canada. Andres from Switzerland and Martin from England. So it's a quiite a dervise group. But for the most we all get a long and actually do things together. Which makes things much better. So in closing no matter where you are at, make sure you have good roomates for they make all the difference in the world. Next time (TBA)

Crazyiness

Well what happens after getting dumped on by 61 inches of snow? A Couple weeks of blue skies and great weather to ski in. The only bad thing about this, is that the MLK weekend happened to fall just after the storm. Which meant that we where insanely busy. It was so crazy that everybody the works on the moutain pretty much wasn't able to get any riding timem in which was no fun. But it's also why we work on the mountian, to be able to ride when there's nobody else there and get to take advantage of all the fresh powder days that the weekenders never get to see. So it balances itself out. And as crazy as June Mtn. is the whole town was insane this weekend. Including my other job at Tommy ho's pizza and deli. So after 4 days of barley being home. Today was time to sleep and it felt good. Next up snow removal.

52 inches and counting.

Well, the road (US 395) finnally opened up and I made back to Mammoth safe and sound yesterday. If felt good to get a hot shower and clean clothes on after three days of wearing the stuff. After getting cleaned up I felt like you do after a nice hot shower after you have been camping for a while, Expect there was no camping involved. So far June Mtn has been hit with 52 inches of snow from this storm and counting. Needless to it's making for some awesome conditions. Time hit the slopes and be buried by powder.

Snow, Snow, Snow and lots of wind.

It's been a while and my next post was going to be on some regional sayings. But getting dumped by 10 feet of snow in less than a week changed the topic. Being from North Dakota you think you know a thing about snow and cold. But after getting dumped by 10 feet with winds that have been clocked over 160 miles per hour on top of the mountain you realize you don't know anything about it. So as a result of all this snow most of the employees of June mitten that are living in Mammoth have been stuck here since Friday. So far everybody is holding up well, but we all are ready to get the roads open return to mammoth, get some fresh clothes, a hot shower and back to our rooms for a change. But till then, the powder's epic and this storm is becoming legendary. So what are the 30 or so employees doing to keep us occupied while we are not on the mountain? Watch movies, handicap the world arm wrestling championships and do some drinking. And keep up with football. Quite exciting.

More updates as the snow in continues