Random Blatherings

My brother Dan has been on me about writing more on this site. I told him I'm not really a writer, he told me I was wrong. So I told him that I never really feel compelled to write, he said I was probably right. Don't take it personally folks, I never feel like writing, it has nothing to do with this blog. In fact, this blog is about the most writing I've done outside of an institute of learning. But people read this and I shouldn't keep them hanging. SO... I'm gonna try and publish more often, even if it's just a few sentences and has nothing to do with anything. Consider this a disclaimer. Here goes nothing.

It's time for me to get out of Methven. The ski season is almost over. The ski season would have been over two weeks ago had we not gotten an unseasonal cold snap that brought 40cm of snow. I had two good days up the mountain last week and one OK day this week. I have three more nights of work and then I blow this one-horse town. For three months I've ridden the one horse several times. It's probably culturally insensitive, as a foreigner, to strut into some town and ride their one horse several times so I gots to split. Zelda is sick. I think it's alternator related because she keeps draining the battery. I got a new battery and she drained it, they replaced that battery with another new one and she drained that one too. It's frusturating. A friend is gonna take a look at it, I'm trying not to think too much about it. But once Zelda is fixed I'm heading south, way south and I plan on fulfilling my hiking quota. I plan to spend at least 30 nights in the wilderness while in New Zealand, I've got 5 under my belt so far. So for the next six weeks I plan on doing very little besides hiking. I've had dailiy internet access for three months and barely post on here, now I've comitted myself to posting frequently and I won't even have access to frickin electricity. Ironic eh? Oh, and Helen Clark was re-elected to her thrird term as Prime Minister by a very narrow margin.