Structural Wealth has a small but bright staff and lot more room to grow so I’ll be learning and involved in architecting a revolutionary product. Sounds like a [win-win-win](http://www.tv.com/the-office/conflict-resolution/episode/631894/recap.html).

Not sure where I’m going to be living yet but I’ll figure that out later.

For example, after finally getting invited to use google analytics and finding some fun tools like google sitemap I’ve gotten a new appreciation for how the internet works and really how information works in general. Plus I learned that there are quite a few people coming to this site even when I don’t update it. 85 page views on Sunday? That’s more than a few people who weren’t in church.

We all know the internet is about free information. Way more than we could possibly imagine. However what few people realize is their importance in this process. If the internet is the closest we’ve come to a true democracy then we certainly must be involved it.

What has changed for me is that up until a few days ago I saw the internet as a tool, a reference, a form of entertainment and distraction. Something which I was simply using without giving anything in return. Sure we all have paid for a few “services” online, but so few of us are actually contributing information when we have so much to give. Think about how many times you’ve used a search engine to find some information. Now how many times did someone else use one and find something that you created? I’m not saying we all need our own web site or blog but I do think that we could share more about what we are learning as consumers and members of society in concise and relevant ways.

I used to think of blogs as glorified mass email where the long winded could unleash some steam and the tech savy could showoff their latest and greatest widgets. Regardless of content blogs extremely powerful and far reaching, with good content they provide quick and easy answers to some hard questions to answer.

For example, do you know anything about shifting a manual transmissions without a clutch? After doing it for the past few days I decided to hop online and find out if it’s actually hurting my car as all I knew about it at the time was that it was possible and that I could do it if I thought about what speed my engine and tires were going. How stuff works is probably one of the most helpful sites for understanding your car and just about everything else. After some time spent there and on various forums I learned that shifting without the clutch isn’t bad if done perfectly but it can be pretty bad when you mess up. It makes sense, why have a clutch if you don’t need one?

The point here is that the internet allows us to be very well informed people and since free and open flow of our opinions makes a democratic society, which we supposedly live in believe it or not, its our darn jobs to make a difference.

So will you see more posts here? Yeah a few more. I’m certainly not going to make promises, but I do believe that we can all have some impact on having a more informed society.

At first I thought it would get tiring or even boring to ski everyday but it’s simply not true. If anything skiing is one of the most addictive drugs there is. The more you ski the better you get. The better you get the more you want to ski. The body craves the adrenaline and builds a tolerance that can only be satisfied by ever increasingly challenging runs and deeper snow. Everyone who comes to the mountain whether they are an employee or a visitor is here for the same reason: to get high on powder snow.

For the past month now I’ve been working at the Goldminer’s Daughter Lodge as a cafe cashier or barista. This means I either place breakfast and lunch orders for people and take their money, or I make chai lattees, espressos and serve beer. I have my bar tending license and my food handlers permit so I can serve alcohol and prepare food… its kind of a scary thought. When I’m not steaming milk in the glassed in cafe which is a stone’s throw from the main base lifts, I’m working on becoming a better skier.

I haven’t met one person who was a ski bum and regretted it. I’m having a great time and I hope to ski with you.

If you are reading this then it probably means you’re my friend, and that mean you need to come out there and visit me. You take care of the plane ticket and I’ve got the rest You have to come make some turns with me.

This is what I will look like next year (lot’s of sausage)
POWWWW!