Zoiks, what a day!

Non-stop. Running from one meeting to another. Tomorrow I am actually triple-booked at a couple of times, including a meeting with a major famous pain-in-the-ass. Hopefully, he won’t actually show. We’ve gone from zero to sixty around here, which doesn’t bode well for sneaking some days off for skiing. But I’m going to — I got virtually no time off at all last year (and an abbreviated summer vacation), so now there will have to be some give. Mount Snow is pretty much completely open, so I MUST get over there next week.
Ice on the river today, quite lovely — the ice breaker came through and broke things up pretty well, but it looked like it was reforming quickly. (My office has a beautiful view of the mighty Hudson.) Our lake is frozen, and if it doesn’t snow it may make for decent skating, though I’m sure the kids’ skates no longer fit. We didn’t skate at all last winter, mostly because we were skiing, and partly because I really need soft-booted skates and can’t justify the expense to myself. But the old stiff boots do bad things to my heel, and they do it much faster than my ski boots. It’s supposed to warm up on into the week, so who knows if the ice will be thick enough this weekend. The lake was frozen a lot last year, but the surface was never great, and the year before it was constantly snowed on.