The Trip Home So I’m cur­rently sit­ting in a plane, 35,000 feet above some­where. Not really sure where, but some­where between Cal­gary and Den­ver I’d assume. Let’s hope so at least. Any­way I have a few final thoughts on the Cal­gary trip that I wanted to get down on vir­tual paper. 1) I did man­age to […]

So here I am again. Sit­ting in the exact same spot. It’s 8:45 now, and again I have a (slightly bet­ter) big cup of cof­fee. I ate Pump­kin pie for break­fast. This makes me happy. So today there’s yet another set of races, exactly the same thing as yes­ter­day. The idea of spend­ing another 8 hours […]

Thanks­giv­ing night. First off, did any of you Itha­cans notice my totally cool vin­tage Cass park hat I was wear­ing in Banff? You can only get that by work­ing there, Bitches. Ok, I made that up. I have no idea if that’s true. But that’s how I got it. So we had Thanks­giv­ing din­ner with andrew’s friends […]

“Con­trol, Con­trol, you must learn Con­trol!“ Yoda So I’m sit­ting here Thanks­giv­ing morn­ing at the Speed Skat­ing Oval. It’s about 8:30, and I have a big cup of cof­fee I’m giv­ing thanks for. Andrew’s first race is in about 2 hours, and he’s just start­ing his warmups. The prob­lem is he can only be on […]

I’m going to keep the text here short. Andrew and I went to the most amaz­ing place today, and I’m going to post mostly pho­tos. These are from Banff National Park, more specif­i­cally, the Banff Gon­dola, which goes up Sul­phur Moun­tain. I don’t think there’s much I can say to add to these, so I’ll […]

A few things real quick: 1) The bloom is off the rose about room­ing with my brother. One, his feet smell. I had for­got­ten that. Two, I went to take a shower, and noticed that the Bath towel (of which there had been two) was miss­ing. I said “Hey, Andrew, where’s the other bath towel?” “Uh, I […]

So I’m sit­ting in Cal­gary right now, at the bag­gage claim, wait­ing for my Brother. I guess I didn’t men­tion that I’m going to Cal­gary for Thanks­giv­ing. The basic idea is this: For those of you who don’t know, my Brother is a speed skater. Like seri­ously. Check out his blog here (which was one […]