"I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you have lived at all"    Leo Rosten
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    Monday, March 19, 2007

    Weekend in Whistler














    So last week my roommates Dad and brothers flew into Seattle for a visit. And Wednesday they all took off up to Whistler for some good ol Canadian snow. So I decided to join them after work on Friday. I've never been to Whistler and haven't even made it out once this year snowboarding.

    So I left work, packed and got out of here by 4:30pm. Hit Seattle during rush hour of course but then had smooth sailing to the border. I'm about 3.5hrs south of Vancouver. I opted for the truck crossing border which worked great with all of 4 cars in front of me. The border has been really good to me lately (knock on wood). This time they never even asked for any identification. Simply where are you living "Washington". Well then who's car is this (the Alberta plates) "Mine, I have dual citizenship". Where are you headed "To whistler for a day of skiing and then back home on Sunday" Have a nice day.

    Thats it. So i bypassed downtown Vancouver, almost ran out of gas on the sea-to-sky highway, and eventually made it to whistler just under 10:30, making the trip just less then 6hrs.

    Well my roommates brother Logan (yep another Logan) broke a bone in his wrist going off a cliff on Friday so he was out of commision. so I got to ride on Logan's lift ticket, making it a free day at Whistler!! Unfortunately conditions were pretty bad. It had rained most of the week and that trend continued on Saturday. Never skied before in the rain.....But I was just happy to be up there, and seeing Whistler. What a massive mountain!! I've never seen anything so big. It's incredible. You could ski there for 5-6 days and never do the same run twice. Really!

    After that we started the drive home Saturday night. Tripp's (my roommate) other little brother Ashton rode with me on the way back for some company. So that was good. I dropped him off in Seattle and then headed back. Ended up getting home around 1am, making for one long long day. Boy was I tired. I slept like a rock, let me tell you. All the way until 1pm Sunday, which is not usual for me.

    TTFN

    Logan

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    Sunday, March 11, 2007

    Bear With Me

    I decided now that I have my own computer and some time on my hands, it was time to get this website in order. And to go along with that, i figured why not, a new design. So hopefully this won't take long. Just need to work out the bugs.

    Let me know what you think of the new design

    Cheers,

    Logan