Alright.. so, sorry I am late on the updating blog.. It's been a pretty interesting vacation trip this winter. This might be the last one in a long time (unless I decide to go to New York later this month).. Like I said in the last blog, I didn't even need to go: I just happened to have already purchased for the vacation back in November...

Part one of my adventures:

PALUMBO give me the wrong directions to get there!!!! For those of you who know and love good ol' Palumbo, he's a great kid to go on ski trips with when he can actually go to them, but yes, I'm not going to give him the benefit of the doubt and say that he just plain sucks at directions since he screwed up both attempts he made in giving directions to get to Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine.. We were at Tortilla Sam's in Worcester with my sister when I told him I was leaving for my annual oddessey this year when I caught him the first time before he would have incorrectly given me directions to get to Kilington and not Sugarloaf..
The second time I must regrettably say it was my own fault for getting distracted when he typed directions on his blackberry - only to find out the next day that I had ended up at Sugarleaf ski area in the MIDDLE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL MOUNTAINS in New Hampshire and not at my desired destination. Suffice to say I was two hours off course. ..

Anyway, once I got there at night the fun finally began...

"I found myself in a remote paradise surrounded finally by pines, glades, rolling mountain ranges surrounding the panoramic view, after a recently fallen snowfall protected our haven from the remote potential of further population from the so called real world settling there.. as for once the so called human mind as we understand it could finally focus on an alien world - an ideal world, undisturbed by human mediocrity was able to finally gather focus as subterranean thoughts of heaven were brought into alighnment, where one's wits are regathered and confidence is never scattered, for the first time as can be gathered, being alive physically and metaphysically is the only thing that matters..."





Part Two: Hey! Where did all the girls go?

Yes it was a slice of heaven, and I was with a good crew of people, only like an odd twilight zone episode, I was in a shangri la, but it was all dudes! I'd go skiing; all dudes on the slopes. At the end of the day, retire to the spa and jacuzzi areas outside by the glade patios -- all dudes..... I was reminded of my strange days of working at the BSC in the south end... The two gals that were with us had boyfriends. The girls on the slopes turned out to be effeminate looking dudes who
wore bright colors and should grow more facial hair behind their ski masks.. I guess Razel the human beat box artist was doing a gig at the bar at the hotel lodge for some surreal reason, but we ended up not going. At any rate, aside from the anthrax that might have been left in our condo that gave us all horrendous sneezing fits (or maybe it was Alex who brought a cold with him), the trip was pretty sweet....

Part Three: I'm proud to say, I wiped out only once during the trip! It was on a double black diamond, which I'll admit I would have never attempted had my friend Erich "Crossroads" Lidstone hadn't peer pressured me into doing it... I couldn't turn my ski, fell head first down the slope, and sliding 150 feet felt strangely peaceful.

Am I dead or am I living? Too afraid to care too afraid to know...

Then I had this random dream where an assassin that looked like Arnold Schwarzenegger scaled up a cliffside in a castle that my family doesn't own in real life and try to kidnap my sister who for some reason was the girl from 'the fifth element' and could bring back balance in the world against the threat of ocean lines with wheels on them roaming on dryland and mauling everything..

The trip home..

The trip home was really relaxing in my rental car that coincidentally looked just like my boss's
PT Cruiser. This time it only took me 5 hours to get back instead of 7! Nevertheless, there was
something good that came out of this trip... Hanging out in the summit of a northeastern mountain all week seems to have given me immunity to subzero weather, and my proudest moment was pumping 25$ worth of gas at a reststop in Lawrence somewhere wearing just a T shirt while the mexican family on the other side of the pump looked at me in disgust, and kept pointing at me and going "Ay, pero que loco!"

Part Four: Epilogue:

But the best part was then when I got back , I just found out the WPI physics department is down with allowing my Physics books to be distributed to the student body there... I even got
the head of the physics department to write a review on the work, who says the following about
JD'CGT P& FITU.... Here's what Professor Ianchianni PHD has to say about my twisted piece of work that makes up the Physics Compilations currently available for sale on the online store..

"The book strikes a unique balance in making physics fun and not compromising necessary conceptual information. It reaches students at their level.. Material is made accessible by employing the kind of style that many students can connect to..."