Date:         Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:29:13 -0500
Reply-To:     Derek Drew <derekdrew@DEREKMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Derek Drew <derekdrew@DEREKMAIL.COM>
Subject:      NVC: (Fri Post) Skiing Christmas thru New Years, Invite
Comments: To: Syncro@yahoogroups.com
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This is a social Friday type post without Vanagon content: weather
discussion, invitation, where to ski, 13-year-old.

We are expert skiers and would welcome the chance to ski with other
list members over the holidays (through the 2nd).

We includes 13 year old son.

We are having a devil of a time trying to predict where the next big
snow dumps will occur during that time.

We were going to Ski Stowe, but that looks like it will be rained out
badly on Sunday.  The entire east is going to get hit.

We were going to switch to Quebec, such as Le Massif or Mt.
Tremblant, but those too look like they will be rained too.

Anyone watching the weather for the next 2 weeks?

I am now thinking of switching to Whistler or Alta/Snowbird, but
still clicking around.

Anyone who is working on the same problem please email.

I am actually the cause of the Friday tradition allowing for posts
that have less Vanagon content in them on Fridays. I can't remember
exactly where the Friday part of it came from, but the tradition was
started after, in 1994 and 1995 or so, I used to scream at everybody
begging for them not to post anything but serious technical
content.  Posts that merely said, "I think so too" also used to drive
me nuts.  Since then, I have been able to configure my mail to make
off-topic posts more tolerable, however (see "How To Live With Heavy
List Volume--Mail
Filters"  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Syncro/message/7403 ) so I am
not as sensitive as I once was.

This post that you are reading is very iffy, I feel, from the point
of view of appropriateness even for a Friday, but I'm sending it
anyway because it is sincere and because the Vanagon Syncro is in
many ways an ultimate ski vehicle.


_______________________________________________
Derek Drew
Founder, ConsumerSearch.com
Washington DC / Beijing / New York
derekdrew@derekmail.com
202-966-7907
(cell) 703-408-1532