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which means I won't be around, though I may blog late next week.
OOF is a weird Microsoft TLA that means “out of office”. Yes, we know that it should probably be “OOOf”, but that's not the way it go expressed in our early tools. I guess that means it's really a TLpA (Three-letter-pseudo-acronym).
My wife and daughter and I are going up to Stevens Pass to night ski tonight. Nearby Snoqualmie pass was the first ski area in the country to provide night skiing, way back in 1945, and probably hosts more night skiers than anywhere else, as it's only 45 minutes from Seattle.
We'll stay up in the mountains, ski at Stevens again on Sunday, and then head up to ski Mt Baker, where Jake Burton started snowboarding, and holder of the single-season snowfall record for the United States (an incredible 1140 inches (yes nearly 100 feet) over the 1998-1999 season (ski areas had to *close* to dig out their lifts that year). The previous record was 1122 inches at Paradise Ranger Station on Mt. Rainier. I've never skied there, and I'm hoping for some of the “pow pow” that Baker is famous for.
We'll ski Baker Tuesday and Wednesday, then come back, relax for a few days, and head up to Stevens again next weekend.
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