Get a life

My baby son Max was born today, July 6th 2012, at 4.51pm. He weighed 8lb 1oz and both he and his wonderful mother are doing fine.

My baby son Scott was born today, Jan 25th 2010, at 1.58am. He weighed 6lb 15oz and both he and his wonderful mother are doing fine.

I’ve been away skiing for a couple of weeks in Davos and St. Anton, the snow was pretty good in both places but Davos won out as a more civilised skiing experience. St. Anton was just too busy for me, I’m getting fussy in my old age ;). The situation in St. Anton wasn’t helped by the fact that when we arrived the off-piste was all a bit crunchy and skied out which meant that most people stayed on piste and then we had a big three day storm that kept the high lifts and links shut and meant that several of the accessible off piste routes were unadvisable due to avalanche risk.

Once again Rands hits the nail on the head with The Nerd Handbook…

I’m back in the UK briefly on 28th and 29th December and then I’m off to Davos for new year… I’m back in the UK in early Feb and then ski guiding for the Ski Club of Great Britain in Jackson Hole for 3 weeks from 17th Feb…

Meanwhile, I’ll continue doing slalom training in Tignes in the French alps… Beware, those poles are addictive!

Well, today I discovered that I had passed the BASI Ski Instructor course that I’ve been taking in Argentina, so I’m now a Ski Instructor… We fly back from Bariloche to Buenos Aires on Friday and then onwards to the UK on Saturday; the trip has been great, but i’m looking forward to getting home and getting a decent curry and a bacon sandwich…

Normal service will resume at some point, but right now I have some skiing to do… I’m off to Argentina at the end of July for 2 months ski instructor training, then, when I get back I’m going to head off to Tignes to do some race training with R21, then on to the Ski Club reps course in December and then, who knows…

I’ve been looking at my web server log analysis and I have three peaks in my graphs for the last few days. The first big peak, 6,000 hits per hour, was on 28th March when my relationship break-up post was on the front page of digg. The traffic then tailed off and dropped down to around 130 hits an hour on the 30th. The second peak, of 500 hits per hour, occurred when a link was posted on The Register and stayed on its front page for a while.

My relationship break-up posting gets linked to from CNN.com… And, of course, they put their own spin on it… However, as I mentioned in a reply to one of the comments on the original posting… “Actually, I wrote a much longer piece with much more detail and decided that I didn’t need to publish it. I just needed to write it. To get it out of my head, in much the same way that I wrote about my sister’s tsunami experience.