It's been way too long since my last update. I'll have to do things in stages. Here's December at a glance:
December 3 - CLUG Meeting: subject was "Linux Gadgets"
December 5&6 - Snowboard trip to Revelstoke! Chris and I left early Saturday morning and headed to Revvy. The weeks weather was not looking promising, no snow at all. Then there was a 15cm dump on Friday night! Woohoo! The roads were a little sketchy, and we followed an invisible semi for quite a while through Rogers Pass, but we made it to town in good time. Unfortunately, the road up to the hill was not freshly sanded, and by the time we got there, it had been thoroughly polished. We had to park before getting to the top, as did quite a few other people, but we caught a ride up right away with a guy who worked there. The lift lines were light, which was nice, and the snow was awesome! We had to walk back to the car afterwards, so by the time we got back to the Same Sun, we just got some supper and slept like logs. The next day was just as awesome, at least another 10cm, and not much for crowds. The drive back was OK, no car problems this time, thank goodness!
December 16 - ACC Meeting (Potluck): The food was really good, and Rob Owens gave an excelent slide show.
December 20 - Heading to Shanna's farm for Christmas. We stopped off in Blackie for supper/visiting with her Dad's side of the family.
December 20-27 - Most of the Christmas week we were at the Farm and boy, was it cold! For the first few days, I'm not sure it got warmer than -20C! The Grahams just got two new border collies, and they needed to be walked every two hours, so that took up quite a bit of time. We did manage to get into some trouble on Christmas, however. After opening presents, we took Phillip's 3/4 ton van turned truck out in the lentil field and let 'er rip. Unfortunately Phillip had the good truck out there as well, and as we all know, young people + cameras = trouble brewing. Well, here's the result: (listen for the "oh no!" at the end... that's when the crash happened!
December 27? - We headed home, and got ready for the trip to Canmore! More on that to come!
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Phillip's crazy-awesome truck
The inside of the truck. Note the awesome door handle!
The crowd at Canmore for New Years
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Dad says:
What happened in the crash?
Monday, February 2nd 2009 9:08PM
Mark says:
Well, I didn't hear the report from the mechanics, but the front drivers-side wheel was not looking so good. It got hit directly on the hub cap by the "bumper" on the van. Due to the shape of the bumper (it looked like a 3" steel tube that was 6" or so in front of the van) the impact was very localized. The wheel was still attached, but it was just hanging there, so it looked like a pin or something may have been broken. There was a little bit of damage to the panel near the door as well, but nothing too serious.
