travis' brain dump

It’s too warm in the mountains… I feel the snow screaming as the digits move upwards. Maybe it’s just me. This has been such a wierd season up there. Way too many warm days keeping the base down. This time last year the snowpack was at least 100″ – 120″ … today it’s 64″ with over 203″ of snowfall this season. Pretty sad. I’m honestly beginning to wonder how much of the season is going to be worth going up for if the snow keeps turning to slush every day and refreezing to ice every night. It’s kind of depressing. At the same time however, I do welcome the warmer weather down here. It’s going to be in the high 50’s to mid 60’s the next week. It’s nice to go on walks and not freeze, but at the same time it’s a sign that boarding is almost done for the year. Hopefully the slopes hang in there for another two months.

Today has been one of those days. Preparing for the next couple of days has been a little bit of a drain. It’s a busy week between the visit from our Japanese partners tomorrow and the meetings surrounding it and other business opportunities. Things are looking good though, we’re securing more business and the value of the company has a nice potential forcast. We’ll see. It’s been a long road to even this point… six years almost. I can’t believe I’ve lived here almost six years now. Eleven more days and another record broken.

I look back on the last six years and it seems like a flash. I can’t believe everything that has gone on and where I’m at right now. I don’t even remember getting here. Arwen reminded me this morning that she is growing faster than I can keep up with. It’s disconcerting how helpless I feel in all of this. It seems the older I get and the more things I have going on in my life, the less control I have and the less I seem to have an impact on the people around me. heh. I guess that’s life. I just hope I don’t ever become one of those people that fades away, unremembered. A comment made to me last night ‘ would you care if you didn’t know me? ‘ It made me think. I do care, it’s my nature and just who I am. If I didn’t know someone, I couldn’t care explicitly about what was going on with them, but in general there are plenty of issues that I tend to care about. A lot of things most people wouldn’t even give a second thought about. But the question is, would other people care or put forth effort to pull me out if I were the one fading away into the shadows. Interesting to say the least. I can count on my fingers the number of people who might actually care… I guess that’s enough.  Even just one is enough. Don’t go reading into this too much folks, it’s just thought – perhaps something for you to think about. A reminder that everyone needs to know that they are thought about and treasured in someone’s life, that their existence matters. Sometimes we don’t say those things enough, sometimes we say them too much. Either way. It’s something we all need to hear from time to time. Guess I should make some phone calls, huh?

Wow, how did I end up going there from that first sentence? heh… what can I say? My mind is in an interesting place right now. Maybe it’s just boredom between the goings on of a day or some other trigger. Maybe I’m just babbling on for no apparent reason. Whatever the case… at least I’m trying to get into the habit of doing this thing more often.