::out of office reply::
Thursday, December 30, 2010 
Hey... if your out of office reply email is still on, turn it off. Nobody believes you went Dec. 22nd-Jan3rd with "no access to email or phone". Where'd you go for the Holidays, Mars? Eastern Europe? It's impossible to go somewhere with no access to email or phone, so just tell the truth: "I'm taking a small break from the unfortunate socially driven need to reply to you within 3 minutes over the holidays this year, so please be patient, and maybe talk to somebody in the same room as you with words for a few minutes". It's ok, in fact it's better than ok, it's awesome and I wish we'd all do that more. I wish we could.
So I'm in the mountains of beautiful British Columbia with my friends for a few weeks making my heart pump more and more blood around my body by skiing as fast as I can through the forest. Their license plates aren't lying, I think this just might be "the best place on Earth". I can't imagine anywhere I'd rather be, anything I'd rather be doing, or anyone I'd rather be doing it with. I am so very fortunate, so thanks to all the supporters and enablers that make doing what Canadian Athletes do, possible. This, and next summer, I want to hear O Canada on the loudspeakers. It's such a great song, it's our song, and it's a lovely reward for all this hard work.
To quote my favourite author, and in an attempt to live by his wise words just a little:
"I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'"
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