I bought a new pair of skate skiis this weekend: Madshus Ultrasonic skate. I spent about an hour waxing them before taking them out and they still felt sluggish. I’m planning to spend a good amount of time on them before the Tuesday night race tomorrow.

The new skiis are about 5 inches longer than my old skiis and they don’t slide around as much. I probably outgrew those skiis over ten years ago.

Last night I saw Matisyahu in concert at Luther’s Blues with Hillary. What a show! The music was full of energy. We ran into Mark Brand from the hash, who was there with his son. Later, I ran into Will McDonald and Matt Hammer from the UPL.

I’ve found a lot of Anime on alt.binaries.movies in the past few days. Yesterday I watched Ninja Scroll and today, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds. I’m currently downloading Castle in the Sky. I really like Nausicaä and what I’ve seen of Castle. It’s probably because they are both Hayao Miyazaki films. I’m signed up for a free one-month trial of Netflix, and I’ll have to fill my queue up with good anime.

I’ve never been very good at making bread. I tried a few times when I lived at the K-house, but I never had any success. Claire would always make the best bread. It looked silky before it went in the oven, and it came out smelling and tasting wonderfuly.

The other day, on a whim, I bought The Panera Bread Cookbook, still dreaming of being able to make good bread. My first attempt goes into the oven in 15 minutes…

Montankus is playing tonight at Restaurant Magnus tonight. I would also like to run or climb tonight (I should run since I haven’t since Tuesday). Now, I hear that Lynn and Fritz are going sledding. Argh, what to do!

I just installed a new template from Alex King’s WordPress Styles page. It’s amazing how much control wordpress gives the designer. This look is acheived by simply changing the CSS.