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3/16/03 Brooklyn, NY I wish

3/16/03 Brooklyn, NY

I wish Tessa could have been with me today upstate, but no doubt the weather was just as good in the city all I can say is that it was splendiferous in the glowing Bershires. Determined to get all I could out of my free March 2003 pass to Catamount, I went skiing in naught but a shirt and snowpants, as it was almost 60 degrees on top of the mountain. Combine that with two feet of snow on the ground, and it truly was the best of all possible worlds. I mean, I guess ski purists would complain of a slight slushiness, but fuck it: it's the closest I've come to being on the back of a motorcycle in summer since... you know, the last time I was on the back of a motorcycle. In summer. Which was probably 1982.

you can feel the winter beginning to lose grip

Because of my relentless archivism, I wanted to take some more pictures of our house, two miles away, from the top of the ski lift. I tried one on a "high quality" setting, and another on a "super damned high quality setting." These are carefully cropped from HUGE images, but take a look at the super hi-res pic here and the normal hi-res pic here. I'll be the first to tell you that there is absolutely no difference. Perhaps somebody with digital picture intellect can explain that one to me.

Back at the farm, it was so liberating to be outside that Chopin the dog and I spent the rest of the afternoon frolicking. I mean hard-core frolicking, the silly skippy-doo bouncing around the acres reserved for young puppies chasing tennis balls. When you've had the winter we've had, you frolic as hard as you can before the next freak winter storm comes to dump two feet of April snow on your ass.