Engrish part deux

So this is the soap bottle in our factory, working on submitting it to engrish.com soon.
























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i'll update soon, Andy

PingPong in a guard shack

So tonight i am in china, Nigel and myself find ourselves bored after leaving work near 9pm, we proceed through the local town to buy some t-shirts, batteries, electric bug zappers were last night, and a coffee thermos. I picked up a T-Shirt for paul, its posted here, hilarious if you ask me.Nigel and I have discovered out natural love for the game of ping pong, so tonight we found an open table in our GuardShack. The 3 people overseeing the factory let us play for about 2 hours, they sure seemed happy when we showed up and played with them for a bit, but not as inviting when leaving 2hrs later, perhaps they expected a short volley session? Anyways we are both sure in the history of our company no westerners have ever met the guard personell long enough to play some games of pingpong, we will try again tomorrow for some competition in there. Now off to bed, its late and I got an uber busy day tomorrow


olaf

Kamp K2

I dont have a lot of time, i'm packing to head to china tomorrow and need to take care of things around my house tonight. Here's a link with a recap from Dave Amirault at Freeskier Magazine of last weeks events, I'll work on mine on the flight or when i'm jet-lagged and not sleeping in hongkong.


http://community.freeskier.com/articles/article.php?article_id=2273

-note: whenever he mentions skiing deep pow and catching fresh tracks, I was probably demo-ing equip at the bottom and not skiing. This isnt to say I didnt catch any epic turns, but my experience wasnt quite the same as the campers. I also got to clean up their empty beer cups the following morning, which is braggable


andy

Marshall the Poodle

I started writing this explaining how many different skis we skied today, how many we reviewed, and most of all how stressful it was... but i'll just skip to saying how awesome Tahoe is. Seriously beautiful part of the country. I expected a lake but this thing is freakin huge. We spent the day at Squaw, another day there and then Boreal for a day, should be great testing/filming weather. Blue-sky and sunny all day when the forecast was rain, weather was in our favor. I'll upload some pictures when I get a chance, I now see why people live here and others vacation here.

Also, the house we're staying in is named after Marshall, a giant Poodle. To commerate "his highness" theres a large picture of him on the wall, weird.

(me) = M.I.A. (a pretty good album too)

So heres a quick update from the life of Andy:

Past: 3weeks ago Jeff came to visit, we toured seattle, ate really well and had some nice nights out on the town. Jeff was also fortunate enough to "come to work with andy" for an afternoon where he was put to work measuring and analyzing skis, thanks jeff for helpin out. Then 2 weeks ago BRodine came to visit, we had an amazing day skiing sat, went out sat night for some great fun, watched some planet earth sunday (buy this dvd set, yes its 60$ but worth every penny to keep funding like this happening for movies like this.) This past weekend I made the annual pilgramage to las vegas, home of my sisters birthday. Myself, Megan and 5 of her friends from SanDiego enjoyed a weekend of sunning, eating and of course a few clubs. While i'm not the clubbing type I had a great time and want to do it again. I also realize theres nothing wrong with 2 guys going to vegas with 5attractive women, JapanJob i'm looking to you to recruit 20girls for our next trip there.

Present: I'm currently in Lake Tahoe for the first time of my life. We are shooting catalog and testing 09-10 ski ideas. Our days will hopefully have sun-filled skiing, goggle tans and well received ideas. Eben and I have been working 16hr days for about the past month getting ready for this, really since I got home from Cabo its been crazy busy for these 3 days.

Future: On Sunday Eben and I fly back to Seattle for a day of rest/preparation for the coming week where on monday its off to Mt.Baker. KampK2 will be in full swing for a week of similar skiing shenanigans, sleeping in RV's and of course socializing with some new friends. The following monday I fly to china for 2 weeks.

I'll be updating with some pictures tomorrow or thursday, until then stay classey, miss you all.


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New Animal #1

Well I dont have time to write a real entry, so instead I will introduce you to the Musk Deer:

Thats right, tonight I was watching Planet Earth and surprise to me, a Deer with fangs.


















Hope you find this as amazing as I have found it, good night

Whats the happs on the craps?

To fill you in on my life this week here goes:

Monday: Finally resumed 3hrs of meetings on mondays because other engineers are back in the office, so naturally Monday came and went without too much sweetness to report.

Tuesday: Lots of parts for skis being made at work, I burned a hole in the vacuum table for cutting cores and metal, got shit for this from co-workers and explained its because i'm so much more efficient that I light the machine on fire. No fire extinguisher necessary, just a mini bucket of water. Tuesday night little park session at central, rails are comin along there and i'm still very bad at half-pipe, i'll fill you all in on my progress assuming I make any. If anything else this serves as a log to how i'm not progressing.

Weds: Still making parts, no real cool things going on at work. Skiing afterwards with different posse, this work/skiing schedule is really cool and I think i'll take a night off thursday.

Thurs: Didnt bring ski stuff to work but turns out I like going. Quick trip home around 6pm then off to the mtns for a park session till 10:30, moderate improvement in half pipe, still skiing like a girl.

Fri: scheduled for city race league at alpental, then hopefully i can go to a ride park. This will be my inaugural race with the city league work team this week, hopefully I dont disappoint, I'll be racing on next years Line Blends, a nice little twin tip against all the other GS skis.

Sat: off to Cabo, going to be an amazing trip coming back the following sat, You probably wont get any blog postings, and in fact most the people reading this will be in cabo with me, Jeff/Jordy you'll just have to imagine how crappy it'll be down there, probably not even 90degrees.


A pair of my shoes fell apart yesterday, so now i'm wearing pair number 2, which isnt nearly as exciting as pair #1 now blown apart. Also, I think i've exhausted my chipotle gift card I received for christmas, this has been a true lifesaver up here and i'm sad to see it go. Turns out I've been too spendy with the chips and guac. Anyways its midnight, early drive to the airport for my roommate tomorrow, some working then some skiin, then Mexico for a week, then hopefully more skiing. ok, that is all, time for bed.

Lastly for Jordy, I am not responsible for your cute heart shaped whisk appearance, although I wish I had been involved somehow.