Ski2Live Live2Ski Posted February 10, 2017 Report Posted February 10, 2017 (edited) Hit Shawnee with the kids this afternoon. First day one of them skied with a cast on her arm (from a fall at Frost a month ago), meaning she could not use poles. Cast was actually scheduled to come off today but doctor cancelled due to snow which is what freed us up to ski. They had gotten 7 inches of real light fluffy powder there. Way different from the heavy wet stuff I had shoveled out of in the AM. Unfortunately the winds were very high so it had blown straight off some of the trails, but we found a few that had real nice powdery stuff to ski in that you rarely find in PA. Deep enough we had to hunt to find a buried ski once. Nicest runs were Country Club and Delaware, with some nice skiable coverage in the trees alongside them as well. Pennsylvania also had a real nice surface. Skied from about 3 to 530. Only had one lift running (high speed quad) but line never exceeded 5 min. Nice midweek bonus. Day 30 for one girl day 29 for the other. About as much skiing as I had done by the end of college. Go dad! Edited February 10, 2017 by Ski2Live Live2Ski 3 Quote
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted February 10, 2017 Report Posted February 10, 2017 Nice report. You must have gone to college in the south Quote
Ski2Live Live2Ski Posted February 10, 2017 Author Report Posted February 10, 2017 (edited) No I went in Philly, but didn't have a car until senior year. Probably made it past day 30 that year. Then I moved to NYC and started doing a lot more skiing, generally in the Catskills. Really only started skiing when I started driving as my parents did not do it (they took me maybe 4 times before then and I had done a school trip to Elk), and then lacked a car most of college. Edited February 10, 2017 by Ski2Live Live2Ski Quote
Shadows Posted February 10, 2017 Report Posted February 10, 2017 Your daughter didnt use poles? Be careful man; shes gonna be standing sideways soon if you dont nip that in the bud. 1 Quote
Ride Delaware ? Posted February 10, 2017 Report Posted February 10, 2017 Glad to hear it went well and she didn't hurt the arm. I always said I'd get a hard cast so I could keep riding. Can't let that set me back. 1 Quote
Kyle Posted February 10, 2017 Report Posted February 10, 2017 Glad to hear it went well and she didn't hurt the arm. I always said I'd get a hard cast so I could keep riding. Can't let that set me back. My first day this year was on a broken foot. Ski boots are basically soft casts anyway so wasn't gonna let a boot cast hold me back. Quote
Ski2Live Live2Ski Posted February 10, 2017 Author Report Posted February 10, 2017 (edited) The orthopedist had said she was fine to ski with the cast. I wasn't even going to go there, but my ex wife piped up in the appointment where she got the cast "She shouldn't ski with it, right?" The doctor said. "I would. Anything she can do with the cast is fine for her to do. It will protect her." Thanks ex wife :-) Edited February 10, 2017 by Ski2Live Live2Ski Quote
Ride Delaware ? Posted February 10, 2017 Report Posted February 10, 2017 That's exactly how I would approach it too. Gotta love it when the doc puts it to the ex wife... Quote
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted February 10, 2017 Report Posted February 10, 2017 At least you say ex wife and not baby mama like everybody in Allentown although they're smart cause they don't have to pay alimony lol. Quote
Ski2Live Live2Ski Posted February 10, 2017 Author Report Posted February 10, 2017 She gets 7 more months of alimony. Unclear how many more months of Obamacare she will get. Quote
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted February 10, 2017 Report Posted February 10, 2017 (edited) She gets 7 more months of alimony. Unclear how many more months of Obamacare she will get. Doesn't she work?? Trump will end Obamacare. What a disaster that's been. Edited February 10, 2017 by GrilledSteezeSandwich 1 Quote
Ski2Live Live2Ski Posted February 10, 2017 Author Report Posted February 10, 2017 (edited) Best I can tell she is doing part time intermittent daycare work. I expect she is either relying on Obamacare or rolling the dice. About a week before the divorce she initiated was finalized (a divorce she pursued with a scorched earth legal strategy, firing succesive attorneys when they started advising her to settle) her third divorce attorney came up with some cockamamie scheme to remain technically married while she received alimony so she would not lose her coverage on my insurance. Yeah right, that's gonna happen. Should have thought about that a year ago before setting us down this road. I had been determined to stay in a loveless marriage for the sake of the kids (glad in retrospect that we did not, for them as much as for me). Edited February 10, 2017 by Ski2Live Live2Ski Quote
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted February 10, 2017 Report Posted February 10, 2017 Wow just wow my aunt and uncle stayed in a loveless marriage for the sake of the kids until they went off to college. Single dads are chick magnets as well even gapers like you. 1 Quote
toast21602 Posted February 10, 2017 Report Posted February 10, 2017 Doesn't she work?? Trump will end Obamacare. What a disaster that's been. Yeah those 20+ million people newly insured absolutely hate having health coverage. 1 Quote
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted February 10, 2017 Report Posted February 10, 2017 Yeah those 20+ million people newly insured absolutely hate having health coverage. It's bad for people like me who's premiums have been rising 25-30% each year for the last few years. Off topic but after just paying $7,000 for two months of health insurance for me and two families I'd be willing to pay a little more in taxes for universal health care. Quote
toast21602 Posted February 10, 2017 Report Posted February 10, 2017 It's bad for people like me who's premiums have been rising 25-30% each year for the last few years. Off topic but after just paying $7,000 for two months of health insurance for me and two families I'd be willing to pay a little more in taxes for universal health care. That's not the fault of the ACA. The ACA was far from a disaster and there are clearly areas within that law that need to be improved. But yeah, universal health care would be nice. 1 Quote
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted February 10, 2017 Report Posted February 10, 2017 The health insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies are making money hand over fist. I've heard from doctors that insurance companies are also shitty about paying them and there's nothing they can do about it. Quote
Ski2Live Live2Ski Posted February 10, 2017 Author Report Posted February 10, 2017 Doctors can certainly do something about insurance companies not paying them. They can opt not to be part of their network and to demand payment up front from patients who then have to seek reimbursement. Lots of doctors do that, if they are in demand enough to be able to pull it off. Quote
trackbiker Posted February 10, 2017 Report Posted February 10, 2017 The Republicans hate universal health care even more than the ACA. Until we get the money out of politics that's never going to happen. Look at our totally unqualified so-called Education Secretary. She bought that position. 3 Quote
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted February 10, 2017 Report Posted February 10, 2017 The Republicans hate universal health care even more than the ACA. Until we get the money out of politics that's never going to happen. Look at our totally unqualified so-called Education Secretary. She bought that position. Yeah my teacher friends are pissed. I don't care about education. My public education was completed almost two decades ago. Quote
toast21602 Posted February 10, 2017 Report Posted February 10, 2017 Yeah my teacher friends are pissed. I don't care about education. My public education was completed almost two decades ago. So you don't care about your friends who are teachers, those who are in education, or those who are going to be receiving any education? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote
GrilledSteezeSandwich Posted February 10, 2017 Report Posted February 10, 2017 So you don't care about your friends who are teachers, those who are in education, or those who are going to be receiving any education? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Well I've always believed the children are our future but they'll be fine...and with the internet including Wikipedia and YouTube you can learn about anything for essentially nothing. 1 Quote
Ski2Live Live2Ski Posted February 10, 2017 Author Report Posted February 10, 2017 The idea of kids learning to read from wikipedia is reminiscent of Marie Antoinette 1 Quote
Shadows Posted February 10, 2017 Report Posted February 10, 2017 I get fined 960$ for niot having health insurance. So theres that Quote
toast21602 Posted February 10, 2017 Report Posted February 10, 2017 Well I've always believed the children are our future but they'll be fine...and with the internet including Wikipedia and YouTube you can learn about anything for essentially nothing. Dumbest thing I've heard all day. 1 Quote
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