I'm doing my best to refrain from posting about skiing. But while I've publicly silent on the topic, I have been checking weather reports 4-5 times a day for the last two weeks in eager anticipation. I'm even subscribed to the Russian ski mailing list at work because they come through with some good links (even though I can't understand what they say.)
Yesterday it finally started cooling off. This morning I woke up to my radio alarm clock saying, "If you're going through the pass, be careful. It's snowing." I knew it would be a good day. I fired up all the web cams and was greeted by a blanket of fresh snow on all the local resorts. Two to seven feet is expected through the Cascades in the next week.
Just a few minutes ago, glorious news arrived via the Russian mailing list: Crystal Mountain is planning to opening on Wednesday! My schedule isn't the best for Wednesday, but I'm going to try to take a vacation day. At the very least this should leave me with a full schedule for Thanksgiving week. If you want to see some video from Crystal, they were featured in Warren Miller "Fifty" and the clip is on their site.
Waaaahooooo!!!!
[UPDATE] Mt. Baker is getting in on the action. They received 15 inches in the last 24 hours and have set a tentative opening for Thursday! The final decision will be made once the next big storm hits on Tuesday night.
Has Lost jumped the shark? During the first season, the show was always on my mind, and I was constantly coming up with theories to answer questions posed on the show. During the second season, some of the mystery disappeared as questions were answered, but some new questions were raised that kept me coming back. Now I'm not feeling it. The show has slowed down. There's not as much going on and we've come to pretty much a single plot line.
The main question now is "How long can they keep this up?" Ideally, the show would have been scheduled for a specific length of time (three seasons?) and stopped after that. They could have planned out the whole story and made each episode count. I get the feeling that they have a contract for infinite shows, and they are trying to milk as much money as possible before it tanks. I don't necessarily blame them for this, but it's frustrating as a viewer.
It's a shame really. The show started off so well, and it seems to be dying, at least in my eyes. It's not going to last for 10 years, so how does it end? Will the show just continue to whither away until it gets canceled? Will the make the decision to leave while they're still at the top of the ratings charts?
Lost still raises questions for me, but now they have nothing to do with the plot line.