So Amber and I took Sunday morning off and went skiing up at Park City Moutain Resort. What an awesome day! I was thinking about my technique enough to keep myself from working too hard and thus I wasn’t working so hard to slow myself down. To top that off the snow was really damn fast so I was going really fast. It was great.

While we were there we were at the peak checking out the trail map trying to decide where the go next. Amber (I could just be remembering this wrong) said something along the lines of “Lets go down to Payday” (the major lift that’s in the middle of the resort and is the primary access for most of the resort) “and then on to this area”. I said something along the lines of “Ok, but I was thinking maybe we could go down to the town lift” (it starts on lower Main street in town and even has a bridge over another road to ski to it from the resort) “just because it seems like fun”. Amber to this says “ok, lets go”.

As we come down the mountain and get to the point where we would make the decision to go to the Town lift or Payday, there’s a ski patrol guy waving his arms and yelling towards us. “Payday is broken down, use Ski Team”. This was about 11:00 AM. When we left the resort at 1:00 they were still evacuating people from the lift, and today it was still down (along with another lift that they shut down to cannibalize for parts). I’m just glad we weren’t on the lift when it died 🙂

BTW there’s updates in the comments.

Sigh.  We’ve got 5 days worth of ski passes here for the season and it’s F’n raining out there melting all our snow.

Snow Good. Rain Bad.

So Amber and I spent the weekend in Baltimore for Sarah Capelle’s wedding. It was a great time, and a very small wedding. Given that John is being shipped out to Iraq in the very near future (I’m thinking in the next 6 weeks or so) there wasn’t time to plan a bigger wedding and everyone was given only 2 weeks notice before it happened. Somehow Sarah pulled it all together and it turned out to be a good time.

While we were out there we successfully made it down to DC for a whirlwind tour of the monuments in DC. Our Monument tour was a total of about 30 minutes, I know we spent more time driving from Baltimore to the Metro Station and more time on the Metro than we did seeing the sites but I’m still glad we finally at least made it into DC for some time. Hopefully we’ll find the time to take a real vacation one of these days and get to spend some time visiting museums etc.

There are pictures posted both of DC and the Wedding for those who know how to find them.

$10 for the whole seat but you’ll only need the edge!

Things at work have been interesting as of late, we’ve been trying to crank through personal returns as they come in while also trying to prep for the corporate returns that we’ve got the information for.  I still have no idea how Norm did everything by himself all those years and actually got things done.  It’s been a lot of late nights and it’s going to be a lot more through the next 2 months.

On top of all the work things Amber and I have been trying to get the Northing Group stuff straightend out. We inputted the entire history into Quickbooks a couple of weeks ago and sent out invoices and statements to everyone.  We’ve also been discussing ways to form a corporation so that we can avoid things like double taxation, and a single person ending up with all of the interest income, which is where we’re at right now.  It’s one of those things that I know we’re doing the right thing by forcing people to pay attention and do what needs to be done but at the same time I get the feeling that no one really gives a shit and I should just give up on the whole damn process and just close out the account and send it all to Olaf, just a lot earlier than we want to.

So that’s the news from a Small Mountain town in Utah.

Well it’s Friday. Not that it seems to mean much around here, we’ll still probably be here tomorrow.

So yeah things are going pretty well around here. We’ve lost a few clients and we’ve picked a few up.

We’ve got the inside track on a new payroll client but I’m not sure we can really handle it. They’re bigger than all but one payroll that we do now, but they’re much more complex. We looked at the output from their last payroll yesterday and sent a pile of questions to the person who is doing it now. We’ll see if we really want to submit a bid for it based on a few of her answers.

Ok I know I don’t usually post things like this but I almost fell out of my chair laughing.

So I just discovered this cool music service from the music genome project called Pandora. It starts you off by asking for the name of a band or a song that you like and then based on the musical styles it plays a custom radio station for you. As it’s playing you give songs thumbs up or thumbs down to improve it’s playlist to better match what you really like in musical styles and at anytime you can add other artists and songs that you like to make the stream even better.

I don’t think I’m doing this justice but I highly suggest checking it out, you’ll probably find some artists and songs you’ve never heard of that you fall in love with.

So since it’s been a while again here’s the highlights.

• We’ve taken over “ownership” of the office.
• Rich moved out to Utah and took a job at Amber’s sister’s office.
• our apartment rocks.
• Passes to Park City Mountian Resort have been bought for the year. Now if only it would snow so we could use them.
• We’re still doing the online MBA thing at GCU. Can’t wait to be done though

Well I think that’s the highlights.

So the US Mint has introduced a couple of new nickel designs which is all well and good but here’s my question…. was it really necessary to make the Buffalo obviously a male?