Ann, Doug, Lolly, Lolly's boyfriend James and I went to see Phish last night at the Worcester Centrum. As you can probably tell by the setlist, it was an awesome show. Much better musically than New Years' Eve, although MSG is a much nicer place to see a show. I really expected them to play songs from their solo acts at NYE, but better late than never. Highlights included YEM, Moma, Stash, Ghost - well, basically the entire second set. Even Fuckerpants was good - I think wearing the shirt made me enjoy it even more. I'll definitely be picking up a copy from LivePhish Downloads.

Mmmmmm...Vinnie's.

Here are some pictures of the aftermath of the blizzard.

Doug and I went skiing today at Gunstock I tried telemarking for the first time - it was incredibly fun. I feel like I've reached a plateau with my alpine skiing, so it was great to have a new challenge. My hamstrings are killing me!

We are in the midst of Blizzard '03 or the Birthday Blizzard or the Holiday Blizzard, depending on what trashy local news station you watch. It's snowing as hard as I've ever seen - and harder than Ann's ever seen. Luckily we were able to hunker down with some Stone Old Guardian, my Dad's Chex Mix and a little Joe Millionaire.

Teen Girl Squad - the sequel. This one is funny too.

This picture might be one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

Yesterday I took Ann cross country skiing in Weston. She did pretty good for only her second time out. It's been a very long time since I've skied on waxless skis - I can't say I loved it, but since I broke my classic racing skis in college (going over a jump trying to impress Reggie) I didn't have much choice. The conditions were excellent, since we got about a foot of powdery snow Friday (following a prediction by the idiot meteorologists that we were going to get 1-3 inches).

On a lighter note:

Yankees Ensure 2003 Pennant By Signing Every Player In Baseball. So funny because it's true. The Lord of the Rings article is damn funny too.

Strong Bad Email?!? - thanks to Liz Kane for this one.

This article sums up a lot of the feelings I had while watching the coverage of the Columbia tragedy. It was really painful to watch all of the coverage and have that old wound opened up again.