Screw you, Jagermeister!

Today I have a hangover of unheard of proportions thanks to my old friend Jagermeister. There was a promo at the pub I live above last night, and silly me just had to win that scarf, headband, wrist band, hat and keyring, didnt I? The way it worked was, you got a shot of Jager, then you got a ticket to do a ring toss game over the horns of a plastic deer.
Not wanting to be bested by any sort of alchohol, I just kept on drinking and ring tossing at that damned deer. Cue to 12 or 13 shots later, I was stumbling around in my new Jagermesiter hat, headband, keyring, scarf and badge and generally looking like a turd. I then stumbled upstairs and into my room where I sat with my head in a toilet for 15 minutes before heading to bed.
I woke up with a filthy hangover and a girl called Ro in my bed, so it wasnt that bad of a night I guess.
Quick aside, I thought I had herpe's during the week, but it turned out to just be a pimple. Large scare right there.
Work has been going pretty good. We've been driving the troopy's and on the odd occasion, the Snow Cats around, and although at times it's so icy that it's like piloting a warm poop around a butter pond, it keeps the job interesting.
Our room is also full now. We have Me, Ned, a Californian guy called Nick and a dude from Noosa caled Dan. So far there havent been any domestics, but Nick was pretty shitty when he found a beer bottle in his snowboard boot this morning.
Well, i'm at a new and more expensive internet cafe, which has just kindly notified me that my time is about to run out.
Must be off!
-j

Wheres the beef? .. uhh, snow?

Contrary to popular belief, theres actually a couple of runs open at Falls, albeit with man-made snow, but still they would be fine for me. Right now it's my day off and im on a bloody computer paying out the arse for internet time (Mountain internet time. More expensive than regular internet time) while I could be up there boarding the day away if only I had the $750 for my darn season pass. I just got paid though, and I put a large chunk of it to the side so in 2 or 3 weeks i should be apples. Fingers crossed that the snow will also be apples. All I need is the dedication to curb my drinking tendencies (bordering on alchoholism... i kid i kid!) and not get so drunk that I go to Big Cup Night at The Man (one of the pubs here) and spend seventeen dollars on a damned pizza! It was sooo good too, but still... seventeen dollars! I am a fool.

At work, due to the dearth of snow, we've just been doing some pretty weird, bordering on unnecessary work. I spent an hour sweeping the road out front of work yesterday. But also, i've been doing some interesting stuff like helping carpet Snow Cats (hey, I found it interesting!) and some wiring stuff. I'm taking any and all shifts that I can get my hands on for that elusive season pass.
By the way, if you check http://www.ski.com.au/snowcams/fallscreek1.html . and see a shuttle-bus or a troopy on it down the bottom, chances are I'm driving it. Also, you can see a building in the middle, and just catch a glimpse of another one behind it... thats where I live! Rivetting stuff, eh?

I've just had a sneaky look at this computer... and theres no USB ports! Shit! I cant upload the room photo's, the photo of my board (it has a new LAN Mine sticker... looks rad!) or the people that i'm living with.
Rest assured though, i'm having a great time up here. The people I live with are really easy to get along with, and most of all, i'm enjoying being away from Albury, where i've been hanging out for far too long. I can go out here without fear of running into any evil ex girlfriends, and most people here have a great 'im on holiday' attitude. I'm missing one or two people... but all in all I guess i'll adjust and it'll be alright.

And i'm out.
-j

Current Lift Pass Saving Status:
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Falls, Part the 1st

Well i'm at a stupidly expensive internet cafe in Frauef Village in Falls Creek, and in no small part for Jens benefit i'm updating my blog.

Well after saying a teary goodbye to Jen on Thursday (yes teary... I'm going to miss her more than I could ever express in this blog, but her latest entry pretty much sums it up) followed by a 'teary, red eye explaining followed by beer' goodbye to the guys at the LAN Mine, I was up bright and early for a trip to Falls Creek with dad.
I was dropped off and had a brief orientation, checked out where I was working and what i was doing, met up with some people and started drinking.
Flying in the face of common sense, I ended up drinking and watching 'dude, wheres my car' in Alana and Candices room until 4am when my inaugural shift was at 7.30am the next morning. I'm freaking stupid sometimes.
So, first day you'd think they would go easy, lightly ease you into the village etc. but no such luck. I had to driver a bus. Around the twisty, incliny Falls Creek village with guests in it.
I think that, strictly speaking, you're meant to have a license for this kind of thing, but not up here!
So shuttle driving I went, and then it started snowing. When the back of the bus started shimmying up a slope with 5 or so guests in it, I radioed back to base and was assigned a 1960 ish Toyota troopy to finish off my shift. It was fun as hell tooling around in that old beast, and eventually it was dark, snowing, and a hell of a way to finish my first day.
Since then, due to a lack of snow, i've generally been drinking, working on the cats (cleaning etc.). I've got a roomy called Ned who's a gun pool player and a pretty good bloke to boot.
That about sums it up so far! When I save enough, i'll be back to post more!
Apologies for any typo's etc. that are in this. Dont have time to go over it!
-j