Skiing .... would've gone better with some actual snow

[dreamshark]

.... but it was still nice. It's a beautiful day, or was when I was out there. Blue sky, sun glistening off a thin layer of snow still recent enough to be sparkly and clean. Due to frequent bare patches, my 45 minutes of "skiing" had a tendency to degenerate suddenly into "walking with long sticks strapped to my feet." But it was enough to tire me out (which is more or less the point), so I came back home, had a sandwich, and played Half Life 2 until I got tired of running round and round in a shipping yard full of large packing boxes while being slowly shot to pieces by an annoying helicopter. It may be time for a walkthrough.