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18.11.'07. 08:37 AM
It's snowing for the last 2 days, and it's snowing a LOT! Heavy snow fall is reported all across the country!
Gotta go buy some wax to iron my board, it's just about time, cuz in a day or two it's show time =) Just been reading through reports on snow conditions in local resorts... All I can say is: DAMN GOOD! Now it's us against nature, waiting for a moment it stops snowing to take off to higher grounds... Even tho I can't wait to strap my bindings on, I wish it doesn't stop yet, so we have huge amounts of fresh powder! Look through my window is promising, everything is white even on this altitude (about 80 m above sea level) around 40 cm of fresh snow, can't see what mountains look like cuz of the snow and the fog...
18.11.'07. 10.54 AM
Board is waxed and ready, maybe I'll go try it in my backyard =) I'll do it later, it's music downloading time now, gotta get some nice tracks to fill in mp3 player, and that should be it, everything done and ready!
Can't wait to start riding... I love that feeling, some punk-rock or techno echoing in my ears, board beneath my feet, and white mountain around me, can't compare that feeling with anything else, it's just 3 of us, snow, mountain and me... Damn, I wish I can do it right now...




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London – We flew into Heathrow and the plan was to catch a train to Jamies grandmothers house in Oxford but her house was flooded.  So we got a tube to Camden & met up with Jamies cousin David who agreed to let us stay for a few days.  The first night in London we met up with some of Jamie’s friends.   We didn’t really want to do any of the touristy stuff in London, but we did go the National Gallery and Trafalger Sqaure. The exchange rate for pounds to Canadian dollars was pretty brutal so we didn’t spend much.  We caught up with a friend from school, Nicole who was in Kensington.  We walked past Hyde Park but we didn’t go check out the Princesss Diana memorial, so I didn’t get the chance to pee in it.  If London wasn’t so ridiculously expensive I would love to live there, going to the pub for a pint is a great way to spend an evening.

Amsterdam – I knew this would be the highlight of the trip, I’d heard a lot of stories about what we should do and where to go in Amsterdam.   To be fair there is a lot of cool stuff to do if sex drugs aren’t your thing …. we did go visit Anne Franks house, and the Rijksmuseum which has about 1000 Van Gogh and Rembrandt paintings.  But my favorite museum was the Heineken Experience which lovingly tells the story of Hollands favorite beer with interactive displays.  As you make your way through the “museum” there are 3 different pubs where you get to sample the beer.  
The nightlife in Amsterdam is amazing, we went to Boom Chicago which is an improv comedy club.  I was surprised how everyone in Holland spoke English, and the Dutch have no accent.  It sounds a bit American and a bit English, but I would have a hard time spotting a Dutchman.
I wanted to check out a coffee house in Amsterdam, but I was not planning on trying any drugs.  We went into a coffee house on the first night & they had a menu of what you could buy – they had cookies and brownies and doughnuts, and hashie milkshakes.   I tried a brownie, it was supposed to be the equivalent of 2 joints.  I think I was more influenced from the jug of beer we had at boom Chicago.   On our second night in Amsterdam we decided to get a gram of marijuana.  I’m not an expert but it was good stuff.  Amsterdam has to be one of the most interesting places, the people dress like Vogue models.  The red light district was not as sleazy as I expected, it seemed pretty touristy actually.   I was surprised when Jamie suggested we go see a live sex show, I was happy to try anything & everything we could on our trip. It was just regular sex, a guy & a girl, 2 lesbians and then a jungle woman with triple-D boobs having sex with a guy in a gorilla suit.  It was something fun to do as a one-off, but I don’t think it would be something you would do every week, like instead of going to the movies you would catch a sex show.
On our last night in Amsterdam we met up with the rest of our Contiki group.  There were 50 people in our group, mostly Australians & New Zealanders and some South Africans, Canadians, Americans.  There were a couple of Brazilians and Tawainese too, so it was a good mix of people.

Munich – we were all pretty hung over when we left Amsterdam at 6am to drive to Munich, Germany.  Our tour guide was Rachel, a cool chick from New Zealand, she basically talked to us like a school teacher & told us we would have to stay with the group & leave when she told us or they’d leave without us.  We arrived in Munich at about 4PM, just in time to go see the Glockinspeil.  Rachel told us it was the highlight of Munich … basically it’s a huge cuckoo clock. It went for 10 minutes, and there were literally 1000s of people watching.  When the clock finally stopped chiming we went for a tour of Munchen.  In the middle of the city is a park where office workers go & sit and eat their lunch and take their clothes off … it was a nudist park!  We went to a beer hall in Munich for dinner, the very one where Hitler used to go to give some of his famous speeches.   German food is pretty good, the main course was literally just a pork leg … no vegetables, no side dish, just meat!  I had 2 steins with my dinner so I don’t remember miuch else happening in Munich, except back at the hotel half the group went to bed & half the group went to the bar for another drink.  Jamie and I met a local Munchen man who offered to buy us a drink, cos he enjoyed speaking English and just wanted to talk to us …. ahh ok we went to bed pretty quickly then.   We drove to Switzerland the next morning, but we did make a stop at the Dacchau concentration camp, they turned the original buildings into a museum. I have to respect Germany for not trying to cover up their darkest chapter in history.

Geneva / Lucerne / Zurich – the trip itinerary was very full, we spent a lot of time each day on the bus traveling to our next destination.  We arrived in Zurich at lunch time, it’s the one city in Europe that looked exactly how I expected & was looking forward to explore it.  Too bad Rachel gave us 30 minutes to see the city & have lunch …. just enough time to grab a McSwiss burger.  The Swiss Alps were beautiful and I definitely want to go back with my snowboard.  It was funny seeing the Australians and South Africans get excited about seeing snow for the first time.  In Lucerne we saw a yodeling demonstration and had a traditional Swiss dinner.  But the highlight of Lucerne was the hotel, which was basically overtaken by our group.  It’s where the group really bonded, and I leant heaps of new drinking games.

Cannes / Nice / Monaco – it was a long drive from Lucerne to Cannes, with a short stop in Zurich.  When Rachel gave the group the choice of having a quiet night at the camping grounds or going to Monaco we unanimously voted for Monaco.  Jamie & I were dressed up to hit the Grand Royale casino …. I wanted to order a vodka martini, Jamie wanted to bet 10∍ on black.  There was a 20∍ cover charge to enter the Grand Royale, so we hit the mini-casino next door.  Jamie was insistent that he was going to gamble in Monaco so he put 10∍ in the giant slot machine … and won 950∍! Back in Antibes we got a bottle of vodka to celebrate.  The funniest moment of the trip was in Monaco when Rachel pointed out Prinicess Stephanie’s palace to us, and Aussie Dave yelled out ‘jeez its bloody nice hey, I thought my house was nice but this is bloody beautiful!’.  We got to spend the next day in Cannes, you feel like a schmuck seeing all the sports cars and huge yachts and villas.  The only other interesting thing that happened in Cannes was a guy in our group nearly got arrested for taking photos of topless women on the beach.  There was a circus with lots of carnival rides next to the campgrounds where we were staying.  After a few beers a bunch of us went on the giant drop, it wasn’t until we got to the top when Derrick reminded everyone about the 13 year old girl who lost her feet on the same ride.  But we survived and went back to the huts for more beer and card games.

Barcelona  -  Spain was the last stop on our contiki trip.  I’ve always thought that Italy has the worlds most beautiful women, but Spain is a serious challenger to the title.  The architecture in Spain was amazing.   It was the groups last night & we went to a flamenco demonstration & to a nightclub which was I was looking forward to doing for the whole trip.  I tried Sangria in Barcelona, which was pretty smooth so I drank more and more.  Maybe it was the alcohol but everybody was pretty emotional about it being our last night, a bunch of us are planning on reuniting for another contiki trip next year.

Paris – Jamie & I flew to Paris the next morning .  Air travel in Europe is realy cheap, our tickets were $30, the same that it costs me to get a train to Toronto!  I’d been to Paris twice before & Jamie had been a bunch of times before too. We had 3 nights in Paris and Jamiie said he wanted to blow his 950 winnings from Monaco on a fancy hotel, but we eventually decided to stay at a hostel.  We got a room at the Woodstock, a pretty famous hotel near the Sacre de Couer.  We’d planned on doing a lot in Paris,, but we were both pretty knackered, so we ended up going to the Louvre and Les Invalides.  We met a Scottish guy at the Woodstock who spoke fluent French and he & Jamie explored the Latin Quarter.  I thought the Parisiens were pretty rude, but I would have been disappointed if they weren’t.  We got kicked out of out hotel room at 10:30 (they have a rule you’re not allowed in your room between 10:30 and 5), and our room got flooded from the sun roof that was left open.   Our last night in Paris was the best night of the trip, we were planning on a having a few quiet beers at the Woodstock, but the bar was full of tourists participating in a drinking Olympics.  

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With the original surface of crushed rock and tar proving to be disastrous at the opening motorcycle and automobile racing events in August of 1909, 3,200,000 paving bricks were imported by rail from the western part of the state in the fall, laid on their sides in a bed of sand and fixed with mortar, this inspiring the nickname "The Brickyard".

Poor attendance at a trio of three-day meets on the revamped surface in 1910 caused the owners to rethink their plans and focus instead on a single event for 1911. They envisioned it as an event of gigantic proportions offering a huge purse. On May 30 - Memorial Day - a grueling 500-Mile race paying $14,250 to win took place, enjoying instant success and attracting universal recognition…and making history as the inaugural Indianapolis 500.

With the exception of an additional program of racing on a single day in September 1916, no race other than the Indianapolis 500 was to be held at the Speedway until a tremendously successful NASCAR stock car event, the Brickyard 400, debuted in 1994. The 500 was suspended during America's involvement in the two world wars, 1917-1918 and 1942-1945, but held in all other years.

Asphalt was first applied to the rougher portions of the track in 1936, and by 1941 all but the greater part of the mainstraight had become blacktop. The remainder of the bricks were finally covered over in the fall of 1961. Most of the original paving bricks are still in place underneath the modern asphalt surface, with only the famous "yard of bricks" still exposed at the start/finish line as a nostalgic reminder of the past.

The track has changed ownership only twice. With Carl Fisher heavily involved in the development of Miami Beach and Jim Allison's nearby engineering company growing rapidly, the foursome sold IMS in 1927 to a group headed up by WWI flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker. Rickenbacker had actually driven in several 500s before he ever knew how to fly. One of Rickenbacker's first actions was to install an 18-hole golf course on the grounds in 1929, now known as Brickyard Crossing and home of a Senior PGA Tour golf tournament, the Brickyard Crossing Championship, in September.

Allowed to fall into a terrible state of disrepair as a result of four years of neglect during WWII, the Speedway was purchased in 1945 by Terre Haute, Indiana, businessman Anton "Tony" Hulman, Jr. He immediately embarked on a phenomenal rejuvenation program that began the transformation of the facility into what it is today. Hulman passed away in October 1977, but to this day members of his family perpetuate the traditions of the Speedway - now encompassing 559 acres - while continuing to transform it beyond the wildest imaginations of its founders.

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Yeah so... new years is coming up quick!! I can't wait.. my birthday is on new years eve and we, my friends and I, put out quite a bit of cash to have a great new years/b-day. We're going to a HUGE new years blow out in Collingwood Ontario at Blue Mountain Resort. Its a 007 bond theme, we have a hotel room right on the resort for 3 nights, breakfast adn supper each night we're there. 3 Giant parties in different locations on the resort grounds with a gnarly supper. This new years is going to kick some serious ass! If anyone out there is going to be hitting this party up.. let me know. I dont' know anyone in collingwood or from around the area really so it would be cool to chill with some locals and just party it up.


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Anyone who skied Sunday-Mon knows what we're talking about... pick you're line and go for it, with nobody in sight to cross your track. Enjoy it.

And hey, there's another 10-20cm's in the forecast.

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Premier of Testing Grounds & Smokebomb at the EVO in Seattle Date Oct.20th   Contact Cowboy at 360-303-8465 or email me at cowboy@burly.us
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ok...so ya
grad was this weekend...
and quite honestly i was disappointed
friday i went to see xmen 3 with some friends...and didn't get to thoroughly enjoy the day because i had to rush home in time to leave for commencement...which i'm pretty sure started late anyway
josh and i spent the whole three hours pretty much sitting in our chairs trying to see who could get their tassle to swing in a better circle
and we sang.
hahaha
apparently i should take singing lessons because my tone is good, but i don't always hit the right notes. i'm just gonna take it as a compliment...lawl
and then i got my "IOU diploma"
it says "Congratulations to the Class of 2006" or something...lame.
but w/e...
i went and visited some people i used to work with and it's good to know they all miss me :)

saturday morning i woke up about 11:00 i think...and noone was home for w/e reason and i was bored so i decided to actually do my hair.
it looked pretty good :)
the bf came over by 3:30 and we left to meet everyone at school to catch the trolley (which was supPOSED to be a double decker bus...you don't even realize how pissed i am about that)
so finally the bus got there and we took it to the legislature grounds to take pictures
everyone was kinda everywhere doing their own thing...so i got some good pics...but not as many as i wanted
also...the bf felt kinda left out i think. i felt bad :(
but we took one hilarious pic together...basically he's making an "offer" to me..the hooker haha
yup...that was daddy's idea hehe
and then we got back onto the trolley to take it to the banquet
oh did i mention the hockey game was on that night? yea...well it was...frick eh!?
so skyler had a walkman to listen to the game...but no reception downstairs =*(
we found out the score easily though...cuz everyone we scored SOMEONE cheered...haha
and ya...so the grads had to congregate outside so we could all walk in (they call it "processing" but i think that is a retarded, non-existent term ahah) and so i left the boy alone for...swear to god...prolly 20 or 30 min =@
and then when we finally walked in noone knew what to do...so neway we ended up just kinda standing there with everyone staring at us. so me and phil danced...because what else was there to do! standing is boring haha
finally i got to go see le bf and dinner started
we missed the first dance because of the f*cking hockey game :(
i kinda wanted to watch the game too...and thank god we won because if we lost AND we missed the first dance...f*ck...i would have killed someone

well dinner was good...dessert was scrumptious
and the dance sucked
it didn't even start 'til 9 and we had to leave by 11
not to mention we left for a bit to go find skyler's best friend cuz his grad was in the same building lmao
and when we got back we had time for a couple more dances and then had to leave
so we get back to the table and all our shi*t is gone...i.e. his jacket/wallet, and my purse (i had my money at least...)
and i figured my friends just took it for safekeeping so we went upstairs to see if they were at their limo
turns out they were still in the dance so we went all the way back down, and they were PISSED at us!!
freaking out..."omg you guys we're late for the limo!!"
f*ck...the limo can wait! =@

but neway...the limo ride to my friend's house was actually pretty fun and everyone was looking forward to a party
long story short: the party was lame
i didn't even get drunk
skyler was super quiet...and it was just kinda boring
although i did do a "cement mixer" which became kind of the "thing" to talk about that night hahaha
THAT was fun...
and then we got kicked out at 2 (who the hell ends a party at two?!) and went to another friend's house
she was drunk (she's kinda cute drunk...really giggly and just not herself lol) and so was her boyfriend
he's never allowed to drink again...farkin most talkative drunk EVER =@
we stayed at her house long enough to finish a beer (for skyler) and a brown cow (for me) and it was wayyy too quiet/dead/boring to stay so we cabbed it home
it took every muscle in my body to restrain from punching josh (the talkative drunk) on the way home...

and then skyler ended up sleeping over and we played amped 2 and watched rocky horror picture show =D which was fun
went to bed at like 6:30...i woke up at about 9
woke skyler up at about 10:30 lol
i got my dad to make waffles :) which was most excellent!
and that was the end of the grad experience pretty much...

i spent most of sunday organizing pics to send to ppl lol

and i was so f*cking tired that i just wanted to sleep all day...but we went out for dinner that night
and i'm pretty sure something didn't agree with me from that cuz i had the worst stomacheache ever =*( seriously...it must have been close to childbirth hahaha

i skipped monday morning to sleep...showed up at school for twenty minutes of social and two spares lmao
OOPS!
but i did get to hear ppls' stories of their respective after grad festivites...haha
apparently a lot of random making out at safe grad which is no biggie...but two kids got caught having sex lmao
how awkward would that be!!?

and ya...that pretty much brings us to today

i think i'm gonna end up re-taking the math diploma...we'll see
time will tell :)
and i've written a lot...so ciaoza


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The Telus Ski & Snowboard Festival is upon us! Several usual events will take place including skier & rider super pipe and big air. One new event that took place this weekend at the top of the Emerald chair on Whistler was The Stompede. The Stompede challenged skiers & riders to put on a slopetsyle type run thru hits & rails condensed into one area. 

Who took the crowns? Kaya Turski again took first place in the women's ski category and Mike Henitiuk won the men's. For riders, Star of Peace Quinn was crowned winner of the women's snowboard Stompede, and Craig Beaulieau, landed in first in the men's snowboard finals.

For a behind the scenes of what went into building the Stompede...


Snow cats prep the Stompede event site.

Park Lead Hand Anto Orts and Park groomer Keith Zajac were building the features for Stompede & the park rangers helped out with final shaping. Local & Atomic rider Dennis Bannock provided input for the course design which Anto & Keith were creating. Everything you can imagine was on the Stompede course including a huge channel gap with a box suspended over it, vertical log jib and multi face cowboy hat table top.


Park Ranger Loreti shapes the vertical log jib 

There's plenty more action coming later this week. For more info on the Festival running until April 23, check out www.wssf.com or http://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/twssf.   

 

Keith steps out of the cat to inspect suspended box 

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Today was really wierd ..... at lunch break me nuclear_seal [maxx], WarAgainstErrorism [leon], looydus [lloyd], D3RICK [luke] and matt [aint got an account on this] was just messin around like we normally do when these 3 kids come onto the school grounds and start sayin they want a fight with max .... max walked up to them and me being the idiot, pushed luke into max who then fell into this other kid who turned and smacked him ...... then lloyd clotheslined this kid. after all this the bigger lad of the group started walking towards lloyd and started pushin him. after these people had been escorted of the grounds by the head teacher and depudy head teacher they waited about 10 mins before comming back again, this time they was only after lloyd, with the bigger of the group walking straight to lloyd while clenching his fist, i pushed lloyd and put my back to this kid, after calling me a nob head miss naylor grabbed him and told lloyd to run ..... i ran with lloyd and we both just legged it to the reception ..... then all the rumours startin spreadin and apparantly one of these peeps had a knife on them lol ..... anyway its all good fun ..... so speak to yall soon ....
cya

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This place is a prison
and these people aren't your friends
Inhaling thrills through twenty dollar bills
and the tumblers are drained and then flooded
again and again. 

There's guards at the onramps
Armed to the teeth
And you may case the grounds
from the cascades to Puget Sound
but you are not permitted to leave. 

I know there's a big world out there
like the one that I saw on the screen
in my living room late last night
it was almost too bright to see. 

and I know that it's not a party
if it happens every night
pretending there's glamour and candelabrum
when you're drinking by candelight. 

And what does it take
to get a drink in this place?
what does it take?
how long must I wait?
(repeat) 

how long must I wait?

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Been a bit slack with my journal once again! I have been busy tho! Firstly we had all the family down and went to newmarket (horse) races... Was a good laugh, had picnic etc and a couple of winners, but didnt win my fortune! The next day we went to a ratpack concert at audely end house, which is an old manor house with lovely grounds etc, picnic again, few beers!!! Was good fun. Then the following week i was at newmarket again with more family! once again i didnt win much but didnt lose either!! Then the next day me and the boys were off to bath for a friends wedding (adam). Was a bit of a mission, but we managed to get to the church with litterally a couple of minutes to spare! Once again was at a lovely venue, and free champagne!!! The boys could not get it down their necks fast enough! Anyway, it soon sorted the men from the boys later!!!! Stayed in a travelodge on the m4.. wasnt too bad! Just been tired since then.. sorted out my garden and done a few bits to the house. This weekend im off to global gathering in stratford, really loookin forward to that, gonna be blinding!!! Anyway, check out my pics from the events above and check soon for pics from this weekend!!! They r gonna be awesome!!!

Have fun, Keep smilin :o)

B x

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It's been a week since I last gotten on my roadie.

Given that the weather is poor, and i've no gear to rock it in the weather, i need to do something to make the pain go away.

The pain hurts...as it should. Give me a chance to figure out how to rid of it.

***UPDATE***

I awake from my slumber at 0900 hours.

Decide that it was nice enough and dry enough to get on board my road bike. Do some errands, and have a coffee, because thats what i do.

Done all the errands i need, then i proceed to head home.

Here is where the real FUN begins.

I dont ride slow. My average speed is 30km/h, and i take corners at that speed as well.

But with fall here, and them leaves a falling to the ground, with prior rain fall, it equates to slick slick grounds.

SO's i ride home, taking this corner, a left hand corner with a slight decline....or in Rally terms, EASY LEFT.

Prior to this i had always taken this corner with a carried speed of 40+. today was no different.

The beginning of the corner to the apex, smooth. Passing two elderly people with no hesitation and no problem.

The exit of the corner....that is where the fun began...but i think ill let the pictures speak for themselve's.


Keep in mind that I slid for roughly 30 feet at this point.

This picture shows the control area....nothing seems out of the ordinary, but if you note that the right brifter, it is pushed towards the center.....it hit hard.

Saddle damage on left hand side.

Quick release damage.

LEft hand brifter, took the majority of the damage on the bike itself.

This is a head on perpendicular shot on the controls...you can see the force that was necessary to push that brifter in towards the cente.

My left elbow.

Left foot, left shoe.

My camel back took some damage as well....sliding on the strap for 30 feet totally shredded the strap and thus pack rendered useless till repaired.

This is the worst of the fall.....my left hip underneath my shorts and my boxers....how this happened i do not know.

I can't walk very well, and i have to work tonight, which involves walking....FUCT i tell you.q

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wouldn't it be nice if sh*t would just go your way at least every once in a while? i would do damn near anything to see sh*t go my way for once, just once, that's all i ask. but that would just make life too easy, not to mention enjoyable . . . .
so, how was I to know that not being too eager to jump around at a 311 concert because you're too light-headed to even walk a straight line was grounds for peeps to bitch. whoda thunk? personally, i would have thought that being ditched by your gf all night (ditched out on her best friend a couple times too) would have been a bit better grounds to bitch, but hey, what do i know? the guy is never right, now is he?

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