I’m a big fan of making things that should be easy, easy. One of those things is technology. Technology ought to enhance, enrich, and simplify our lives, not make them more tedious and complex.
So, I make this really rad new website and just don’t update the thing, do I, even after promising to be more vigilant. What’s up with that? Well, now I’m blaming it on my ancient computer. The laptop I’m running can barely handle two instances of Firefox, let alone imaging software or Microsoft Word. I bought my Toshiba in the spring of 2003, so it’s seen better days.
Apparently, this new site architecture is not empowering me to update any more often than before. So what’s been going on since I arrived in Utah in mid-September? You might be surprised…
Check out the new pictures of Chile I've uploaded! One of our team leaders had an awesome SLR camera with her. She ended up taking about 1500 shots. I've uploaded about 90 of those. Click on the gallery tab above.
I’m not one for pushing products on people, but this is a product I’m actually paying for myself! After four years of owning a cell phone whose top feature was the fact that it had an LED flashlight, I ditched Verizon (and its horrible coverage in Vermont) for a Blackberry from T-Mobile.
Shortly after the 15-km freestyle cross-country race ended, the wind picked up and the fog rolled in. Within a few hours, the snow was coming down en force. The temperature plummeted and the gusts howled through the buildings of the Chilean Warfare School. Out of the bay windows of the officers’ lounge, which face Tres Hermanos and Hotel Portillo, one could see only a few feet. All was gray and white.
We arrived in Chile yesterday after a long trip from Vermont. Chile is awesome. There's snow. There are huge mountains. We're underneath Mount Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Americas, and the highest mountain outside of Asia at 22,841 feet, according to Wikipedia. It's actually in Argentina, which is a testament to how close we are to the border. Every day, the mountain pass fills with semi-trucks carrying goods between the two countries. They must stop at the border station, so there's a lot of traffic on the dozen or so massive switchbacks.
