Snowboarding!

For the second time in my life, I went snowboarding! And the results from this snowboarding adventure were much better than the last. Last year, I skied a few times and then decided to try snowboarding a single time. Unfortunately for me, the snow was hard as ice on the day I decided to attempt and I fell square on my tailbone a few too many times. My butt hurt for a week after that potentially from damage to my coccyx.

However, this time around, the snow was fresh and they were in the process of creating more with the snow blowers. Additionally, we decided to night board since my brother and I had never tried that before. So once five o'clock came, we loaded up the car with our gear and my brother's new snowboard and hit the road.


Although the snow was ideal, the weather was harsh! There were frostbite warning signs everywhere and the wind was wiping up snow on and off all night! The first ride up the ski lift was especially bad. Neither of us had our goggles on and I didn't even have a mask. The snow was blinding and really stung as it whipped past the face.

Once we begun the snowboarding though, there was no turning back. Although I started off a bit rough, I have begun to improve significantly over my abilities last year. Perhaps when we go snowboarding again I can hit the blue slopes rather than sticking only to greens! We plan on going again tonight, so we'll see!

What happened to the time?

Well, the fall semester has drawn to a close and I have yet to update my blog. I figure I should at least attempt to update this blog near the beginning and after the end of semesters when I feel the most fresh and relaxed! At this point, I can probably keep up with blogging fairly regularly over the break. If not, you can always follow my twitter: http://twitter.com/jonsage

For some reason, microblogging is easy to keep up with rather than posting once a week. I suppose it has to do with the simplicity and the fact that some updates really have no contribution to anything. Such as, “Detour to the campus computer store, need another copy of windows 7”, I could not imagine posting a blog entry about that! Typically I don’t tweet such mundane things though, so it might actually be worth following me!

Ugh, major twitter sidetrack there! Anyhow, my semester ended on a high note. I did quite well in my class this semester even though we did more proofs in three months that I have done in my entire life! This more theoretical approach to systems theory was a nice alternative approach to the applied stance that I am familiar with. Perhaps the theory will come in handy some day!

Another success of this semester has been my research progress. Although there were some major hurdles, I made some significant breakthroughs. I am pretty hopeful that over the winter break I can make some major progress on my master’s thesis!
I am super excited since Stephanie finished her finals today! She did really well and will be coming up to Austin tomorrow! We have a lot we want to do, so I will try to update about all the fun we have!