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My friend Jeff says this is from the new bar called SUDZ. I think it’s cool to look at, but I wouldn’t want to get all sudsy, because it would feel gross soaked into my clothes.

This Dell belongs to another member of my department, and he asked for my help in getting it to connect to the school’s network. It had been connected before, but for some reason it wouldn’t any more.

The school has a firewall in place that requires Windows computers to install and run a firewall client, but either his computer never had the client, or it got deleted somehow.

Oh well, he is reinstalling the whole OS and all the applications he needs, so he can install the firewall client, too.

This display of palm-leaf crosses at the grocery store made me think that some people must really want to appear that they went to church on Palm Sunday.

Bonus points if you know who sings these lyrics:

Little crosses – I see on my T.V.
Take my money – and give me some of these
Little crosses – with lots of color and sound
I’m in heaven – with all these treasures around

And ever since he bought them he sits and watches
He’s got everything now, he really loves those crosses…

This might be our last day of skiing for the season, but we’re hoping to get one more day in over Easter weekend. In this picture, you see the boys riding up a chairlift without me–I was in the chair behind them with their cousin. This photo was taken with their mother in mind–she doesn’t worry about them when they’re with me at all!

This is a great trail, but we didn’t get to use it much this season because there were so many weekends when the rain washed away the snow on the southern-most slopes. But today! A LOT of snow made for a great day of skiing.

UPDATE: My knee hurts today. The thing about agreeing to follow your 7-year-old down “all the black diamond trails” and going off-trail through all the woods trails is that you can get hurt when you’re my age. As I was telling Dan this morning, the 60-pound kid has a lot easier time steering and stopping than someone who has as well developed a muscular system as I have (okay, that’s not the phrase I used when I was talking to Dan–but I’m not telling YOU my real weight). My knee isn’t swollen, just a bit achey, so I’m almost limping when I walk. Mainly I’m trying to avoid putting any rotational stress on it, because that’s what probably caused this ache-injury.

In addition to the achey knee, just about every major muscle on my body aches today. That is not really a problem to complain about, it just goes to tell you how physical our day was. Because it was just me and my oldest, we skiied fast and hard and hit every black diamond we could hit. We even skied moguls, which was a first for both of us. It’s a good kind of ache, if you know what I mean.

I guess now would be a good time to take some ibuprofen.