After almost two weeks of dreadful weather (warm and wet) eleven inches of fresh snow covered Alta this morning. However I only skied half a day. The reason was that after eating dinner three days ago I began to feel as if I swallowed a dead rat. I ended up spending a night in the bathroom hugging a toilet bowl and making out with it. I must assure you that I was very passionate and did not hold back. Finally I was asleep by 4AM. I spent the next day curled up in the fetal position on the couch in semi-comatose nirvana, getting by on tea, chicken broth and record Dow losses. Yesterday I felt like I was back to normal, but since I haven’t been eaten for almost two days I stayed home. Apparently I didn’t miss much – in addition to the terrible snow conditions, 80MPH wind at 11, 000 fit caused one of the chairlifts to shutdown and all 89 people on it had to be evacuated by the Ski Patrol. This morning I left a couple of “first tracks” on the north side of the Supreme Lift, but the cheese sandwich (my lunch) made me keenly aware of my recent ailment. I had to cut the day short and go home to get back on the chicken broth and Ginseng Tea diet. I am hoping to be fully recovered for the snow storm that is expected Sunday morning. As for the Dow, I think I am going to agree with one of the analysis that I recently read: the “irrational exuberance” of the 90th, right now has been replaced by the “irrational pessimism”. The Detroit’s autoworkers and Mortgage Derivatives Traders will not see their industries recover any time soon, but folks who still have their jobs, survived layoffs (if any) and whose industries haven’t been affected by the recession all that much, in my opinion, should snap out of the “doom-and-gloom” mood. And the picture for today’s post depicts the content of my stomach on Monday (as I imagined it) and the state of mind of the proponents of “economic Armageddon” (also as I imagine it).
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