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January 24th, 2008
10:43 am - Finita la Comedia
Last Saturday & Sunday - Skiing in California (Heavenly & Northstar)
Last Sunday - ДДТ concert in San Francisco
Wednesday - Opera (Pagliacci)
Saturday-Monday - Ice climbing in Colorado
Next Wednesday - Riverdance
Balanced lifestyle, eh? :)
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December 26th, 2007
02:51 am - Facts of the day
- Except for winter sleigh rides & Starbucks, Leavenworth is dead on X-Mas day
- Stevens Pass + "traction tires required" + rear-wheel drive sportscar == 2 hours of adrenalin :)
- some girls CAN drive :) (think RX-8... I-405... 100+ MPH ...)
- when you order a second bottle of wine at a restaurant (for 2...) the waiter will look at you strangely (even if he knows you're Russian :))
Other facts will need to wait until I am more sober :)
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December 18th, 2007
11:29 pm - Communication
Cell phone, work phone, work e-mail, personal e-mail (x2), text messages, Facebook messages, MSN Messenger, Office Communicator...
Technology really does make our lives simpler, doesn't it? :)
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04:41 am - Thought of the morning
Agreeing is easy, agreeing to disagree is hard.
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December 3rd, 2007
11:46 pm - Travel plans
Dec 13-16 -- Toronto
Jan 19-20 -- California (skiing at Lake Tahoe + ДДТ concert in San Francisco)
Jan 25-28 (tentative) -- Colorado (ice climbing at Ouray and Silverton)
Feb 15-18 (tentative) -- Colorado (skiing at Keystone, Breckenridge and Vail)
Feb 22-24 (tentative) -- Alaska (watching Northern Lights in Fairbanks)
Только два вопроса... Когда работать и где на все это взять деньги... :))
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August 21st, 2007
08:49 pm - Random
- Благодаря достаточно "интенсивному" общению по MSN, наконец-то научился более-менее быстро печатать на русском с правильной (а не фонетической) раскладкой. Это хорошо. Заодно почти полностью разучился печатать на транслит-е (пальцы на автопилоте на неправильные клавиши лезут). Это плохо. Так всегда - одно выучил, другое забыл :)
- У мотоцикла поломался\вылетел шнур который контролирует холостые обороты. Теперь этот драндулет почти всегда глохнет на нейтралке. Приходится заводить и сразу стартовать на 3000-4000 оборотов. Блин! Чтобы шнур поменять\починить нужно снять бак... Дважды блин!
Самому починить скорее всего не удастся - придется опять в мастерскую ехать. Трижды блин (чтобы не сказать чего-то похуже)!!
- Знакомая купила двух котят. Один из них черный. Идея назвать его "Бегемот" была отвергнута знакомой после недолгого обдумывания. А жаль... ;))
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July 23rd, 2007
04:33 pm - Thought of the day
There is nothing in the US Constitution (or its numerous Amendments) that explicitly prohibits a former 2-term President from serving as a Vice President.
President Hillary Clinton and Vice President Bill Clinton... Has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? :))
If I could, I would definitely vote for that pair!
P.S. A nice article on the constitutionality of this
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July 10th, 2007
12:53 am - Прикольный тест
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June 19th, 2007
12:39 pm - ...
Civil war in Gaza/West Bank, continued insurgency in Iraq, fighting in Lebanon, global stand-off with Iran
That's what I call stability in the Middle East... :))
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May 13th, 2007
03:40 pm - Mt. Rainier
I've never seen such (quickly deteriorating) conditions up there...
Saturday - partly, cloudy, freezing level around 9,000 feet -- almost perfect climbing weather
Saturday night (when we got to Camp Muir at 10,100 feet) -- cloudy and foggy, no wind but low visibility, still climable
Sunday morning -- heavy snow (5 inches of new snow at Camp Muir), 30mph wind, almost zero-visibility, freezing level ~5000 feet, unclimable (2 groups that tried going up turned around after less than a 1,000 feet)
Needless to say, we didn't climb it on Sunday. We decided to cut our losses and head down which was an experience in itself...
- 10,000 to 8,000 feet -- 20mph wind and complete whiteout (we were going from one wand to the next one on the snowfield)
- 8,000 to 7,000 feet -- sunny, windless, relatively warm
- 7,000 to 5,400 feet (Paradise parking lot) -- complete whiteout (we were going by GPS since we couldn't see more than 30 feet ahead), 1 foot of new snow on the ground, 28F at Paradise
The main purpose was to experient with Denali gear\clothing (+60lb backpacks on the 4,700 feet hike to Camp Muir) - most gear passed with flying colors!!
Would have been nice to climb the mountain also but, oh well...
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April 30th, 2007
12:42 am - Mt. Hood
Kristian wanted to ski a volcano, Alex wanted to climb Mt. Hood, I suggested that we put the two together :)
So, we skied Mt. Hood (from the summit 11,239 feet to the car 5900 feet)
The Red line is ultimate backcountry skiing - survival skiing down a 45-degree icy slope for a few hundred feet, followed by easier terrain (still on mostly horrible snow) for a another 2000 feet
The Green line is 2600 vertical feet of beautiful groomed ski resort runs - almost effortless bliss!
And, no, we did not "cheat" by taking the ski lift up to 8600 :)
Even if we wanted to, we couldn't... the ski lifts were closed at 3am when were going up ;))
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April 26th, 2007
10:14 pm - Random
- Nostalgic... Almost 2 years ago, around 3pm on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in July, after coming down from an unsuccessful Rainier attempt, I was sitting on an outdoor patio of some restaurant on Alki Beach, enjoying an amazing view of Rainier in the distance and thinking "Wow!! 8 hours ago I was at 11,000 feet, just a little invisible dot on that amazing mountain!"
I haven't experienced that particular feeling since...
- The joys of working in SE (Sustained Engineering)
Родил новую фразу - "We don't QFE customer confusion!"
QFE = Quick Fix Engineering, aka "fix"
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April 15th, 2007
02:24 pm - Variation on a theme
There is a relatively common bumper sticker that says "I never drive faster than my guardian angel can fly."
Here is my variation:
"I never drive faster than my guardian angel can fly. Fortunately, my guardian angel has jet engines."
;-)
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April 3rd, 2007
02:08 am - Thought
Two of my ex-girlfriends are getting married this summer.
What lesson can be learned from this?
Well, if you are a girl and want to get married, dating me is a sure way to accomplish that goal ;-)))
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/smile.gif) amused
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March 17th, 2007
04:17 pm - Travelling
States\provinces I've been to over the past 12 months (not counting drive-throughs and flight connections):
- Washington (well, I live here... :))
- British Columbia (5)
- Alberta
- Ontario (3)
- Nevada (2)
- Arizona (2)
- New Mexico
- Texas
- Oregon
- Idaho (2)
- Utah
- Colorado
In addition, before the end of May:
- New York (confirmed)
- Alaska (confirmed)
- California (hopefully)
What's the morale of this story, you ask?
I think I need to start expanding my playground to beyond the borders of US/Canada :))
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March 11th, 2007
05:59 pm - Main weekend highlight
Вспомнил\научился играть в преферанс.
Покер отдыхает... :)
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February 14th, 2007
03:02 pm
To all the singles out there, Happy International Quirkyalone Day!!!
Oh, and happy V-Day to the rest of you! ;-)
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February 1st, 2007
07:35 am - Racquetball is an extreme sport...
... when played at 6AM
First game in the Microsoft Racquetball Ladder (league), first win - good way to start a Thursday!
Good morning to all!
P.S. The parking lot at ProClub is almost full at 7AM. People, what's wrong with you?!?! It's against human nature to go to the gym that early! :)
P.P.S. Do not drink high-calorie "coffee-style drinks" at Starbucks before racquetball - the calories go straight into clogging your air passages causing more out-of-breathness than expected...
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January 28th, 2007
05:14 pm - Sunday humor
Only a Nova Scotian could think of this ...
From the province where drunk driving is considered a sport, comes this true story. Recently a routine police patrol parked outside a bar in Halifax. After last call the officer noticed a man leaving the bar so intoxicated that he could barely walk. The man stumbled around the parking lot for a few minutes, with the officer quietly observing. After what seemed an eternity and trying his keys on five different vehicles, the man managed to find his car which he fell into. He sat there for a few minutes as a number of other patrons left the bar and drove off.
Finally he started the car, switched the wipers on and off (it was a fine, dry summer night) -- flicked the blinkers on, then off a couple of times, honked the horn and then switched on the lights. He moved the vehicle forward a few inches, reversed a little and then remained still for a few more minutes as some more of the other patron vehicles left.
At last, the parking lot empty, he pulled out of the parking lot and started to drive slowly down the road. The police officer, having patiently waited all this time, now started up the patrol car, put on the flashing lights, promptly pulled the man over and carried out a breathalyser test. To his amazement the breathalyser indicated no evidence of the man having consumed any alcohol at all!
Dumbfounded, the officer said, "I'll have to ask you to accompany me to the police station. This breathalyser equipment must be broken." .......
"I doubt it," said the truly proud Nova Scotian. "Tonight I'm the designated decoy."
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