Get Lucky

By:  Greg
September 13, 2014 3:47 pm | Category: Skiing

I want to tell you a story about getting lucky. A youngin’ woke up early one morning to compare the new iFauxn sex models. Do they get the one bigger than a PopTart, or smaller?
poptart ifauxn
Do they get 64 giga bytes or 16? They spent all day worrying about the decision. After reading all the blogz and fanzines and newz feedz, they decided. So happy, so excited youngin’ was. They went to order it.

Computer says: “Must have primary account holder’s SSN to verify account.”

OK Computer. No problem. A few hours later, that’s all set. Now it’s time to spend those 299 dollars, and get this thing. But wait.
40 dollar fee?
Special one time fee of 40 more dollars. Oh well. Whatever. NBD. Click buy.

Computer says: “We automatically ship to primary account holder’s address. It is a PO Box. We cannot ship to PO Box. Good bye.”
rage
Just one more try. This time on ATT.rage instead of Apple.calm.

Youngin’s best pal: “But there’s going to be a glorious sunset. And northern lights. Let’s go and drink a beer and eat some food and enjoy! You can do that later.”

Youngin: “But I won’t get the iFauxn sex FIRST. GRRrrrRRR!”

Youngin’s best pal: “Well I’m leaving.”

Youngin: “Don’t rush me! I have to do this now, or…”

Youngin’s best pal leaves. Youngin angrily chases after. No iFauxn sex today. Or this month probably.

They’re hiking through the fog now. There’s no chance for a sunset, and probably no aurora either with all these clouds. Everyone’s grumpy. No iFauxn. No sunset. No aurora.

Then it gets a little lighter and less cloudy. And then a little lighter still. And then they’re on top. No iFauxn sex. No problem. Just this:
sunset

And then darkness came, and the northern lights flared up.
northern lights over mount mansfield

Brighter and brighter…
northern lights over mount mansfield

…and brighter.
northern lights over mount mansfield

And then they faded just in time for bed.
northern lights over mount mansfield

Then the sun came up, and lit up everything again.
sunrise over Stowe Vermont

sunrise over Stowe Vermont

Youngin and friend walked down happy as could be. They got lucky. They realized before it was too late what really matters.

Prints of the aurora photo are available here.

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7 Comments

  1. Harvey
    wrote on September 13th, 2014 at 6:07 pm  
  2. Skrilla Gorilla
    wrote on September 15th, 2014 at 2:06 pm  
  3. Jamie
    wrote on September 18th, 2014 at 8:43 am  
    3

    Wonderful photos! What time did you see them?? My friend and I left the summit at 8:30pm and only saw a vague green light to the north. Pretty bummed we didn’t stick around for this!

    Respond to this comment/comment thread
    • Greg
      wrote on September 18th, 2014 at 9:44 am  
      4

      oh man. sad to tell you it was at about 8:45PM-9PM. In fact, were you guys heading down the Sunset Ridge and/or Profanity? We saw headlamps on both trails on southern exposure at the time the aurora “exploded.” We tried to Morse-code you “north”

  4. Talbert
    wrote on September 18th, 2014 at 6:24 pm  
  5. I'm_a_crappy_skier
    wrote on October 13th, 2014 at 3:44 pm  
    6

    wow… just wow

    unrelated: calendars?

    Respond to this comment/comment thread
    • Greg
      wrote on October 25th, 2014 at 1:10 pm  
      7

      yes. they will happen. late and overpriced (prolly 21$ shipped) again… i’ll email you

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