I have a busy week or so coming up--a business trip to Minneapolis all next week (which is full of what promises to be kinda stressful meetings), then I get back Friday night. Early Saturday morning, we drive up north to take care of my MiL, who is having surgery next week. The DH stays there, but I get on the train late Sunday to be at work Monday morning. Not terrible, but tiring nonetheless.
However, once I get through that I just found out that I get to go with DH to a schmancy Audi weekend event, being held at this place nest weekend: [link] I am really excited!
This is the fanciest hotel I will have ever stayed at--so gorgeous. And they pay for dinner on a boat one night and for a bike trip around Santa Barbara, which sounds really fun.
Do most people wear helmets while skiing, though? Or beginners, anyway?
Not in my experience -- though I've never been a huge skier.
Every year here in Utah we have a few people who die on the ski runs from running into trees or whatnot. Trees don't yield.
Son of Kerfuffle poll: [link]
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The obvious solution to the wooden menace is to have real trees removed from all ski slopes and replaced by breakaway plastic models.
That is weird that she seemed fine afterward.
Actually not strange (or, rather, not unusual). It was a plot point in Busman's Honeymoon, and also what happened to my grandmother.
Speaking of models of natural objects. On the way to work this morning, I was going down a road on the fringe of my neighborhood and saw that some vandals apparently busted apart a model deer that has been in somebody's yard for years. Also it appears someone had played mailbox baseball along the road as well. F**k you fake deer killers!
Well when I said weird, it's specifically in the context of skiing accidents. Most of the fatal (or near fatal) ski accidents I've known about were most definitely of the "take terrible fall/hit tree/don't get up again" variety.
Happy Anniversary Laura!
Then I read that kids these days, when they do their "texting", would "text" SciFi as SyFy.
I think the real reason was that SyFy could be copyrighted and SciFi could not.
Well when I said weird, it's specifically in the context of skiing accidents.
Got it. Yeah, I think the get-up-then-lose-consciousness-later ones are usually injuries to the back of the head, which I don't associate with skiing.
On the other hand, I've never been near a ski in my life, so who knows?
