<-------The little black dot in the center left is T-Pain rocking the slope and making all the middle school boys wish they knew her name.

Another day on break, another day well spent by doing a combination of laying around and visiting with some friends. Met up with Jen, my fellow trainee with whom I went through job training with, and and had coffee at Starbucks. It had been a few months since I had seen her last. She transferred from the CAT property team to the Buffalo local office in order to be closer to family and friends back in July. However, since then, she got fed up with insurance claims and resigned as a local property adjuster. She's super creative and has way too good of a personality to deal with the mundane world of insurance. I wish her the very best in finding a job in which caters more to her interests.

After coffee, Theresa and I headed off to Bristol Mountain for some quality skiing. Brookes was unable to make it due to some lame excuse of doing house chores (yea that's right, called you out buddy!). So, the two of us drove to Canandaigua which is about a 45 minute drive southeast of Rochester. We got there right as the sun went down. I had never been twilight skiing before so I was pretty excited.

We got our rentals and hit the chairlift up to the beginner-intermediate hills. Sure enough, as soon as we got off the chairlift onto the hill, T-Pain and I both took a spill. My immediate thought was that this was just a fantastic start of things to come. We decided to take it slow on the beginner hill since it looked less treacherous and consisted of low speeds...a good place to start. We made our way down and immediately hit the chairlift to go back. Now, I'm not very proud of this next moment but it happened so I feel I should share...we got off the chairlift for the second time and I inadvertently locked my ski on Theresa's, dropping her to the ground. I'm surprised she didn't slug me but she just laughed it off...a true Theresa move/

I took on the beginner's hill a couple times then moved over to a hill which was a straight shot down, very steep and didn't notice many people "pizza-ing". After mustering up the cajones, I attempted this hill twice and both times, I bit it hard. I'll get there eventually...I'm hoping that my third time skiing will be the one where I never fall.

Might get deployed tomorrow after a bad Nor'easter hit most of New England and DC. There were approximately 500,000 people without power in DC alone after last night. I also received an email from my manager preparing us so it seems likely.