A couple of college friends flew up this past weekend to go skiing with us at Killington. It was a lot of fun, but I don’t feel like I improved much from my last skiing adventure about a year ago. If anything, I think I got worse. The slopes seemed scarier, steeper, and all in all I just didn’t have it in me. Next time I go anywhere near a mountain of snow, I’m going to take some lessons.
On another note, Gary, one of the friends who came up to Boston this weekend, mentioned that he recently signed up for Blockbuster Online with his roommate. I’ve heard people using Netflix, etc., but it always struck me as being super expensive. But I realized talking to Gary that it really isn’t a lot of money … for $15 a month (the price of 3 in-store rentals), you get unlimited to-your-mailbox DVD borrowing AND 2 free in-store rentals a month. So, I’d break even if I just get 1 DVD mailed to me a month. Sweet deal, eh? So Ryan and I signed up for Blockbuster Online on Monday ($3 cheaper than Netflix and you get 2 in-store rentals per month), requested three movies. Yesterday, all three were shipped out with estimated arrival date of 2/3/05. Well, today’s Wednesday the 2nd (groundhog’s day!), and we’ve already received 2 of the three movies. REALLY sweet if you ask me.
Anyway … a couple of pictures from the ski trip:
Ryan looking spiffy on his snowboard, while I’m trying very hard to snow plow down a bunny slope.