powderfreak

DIT steering the ship to fit his desires. Mind control.

I bet we'd be surprised who uses Venmo already. That's also helped take cash out, hear that a lot around here too. Coffee shops in town or getting beers... "I'll just put it on my card and you guys can Venmo me" and often it seems like the money is already transferred before the bill is paid. Pretty sure my sister in NYC uses Venmo on a daily basis for sharing coffees, lunch, happy hour, whatever. Even buying lunch from street vendors they seem to split it that way.

Thats my favorite ski size for the east. My last was Fisher Ranger 98s. Waist in that 98-100 is perfect IMO for all mountain skiing in variable snow surfaces.

They make those in a 110? I thought I’d only seen 90. That’s got some beef to it if it’s 110! I just picked up some 180cm Blizzard Rustler 10s from a rep, excited to try them out.

They may not even say it, or open comments back up in a couple days, but by then I bet they’ll have raised even hundreds of thousands of new accounts worldwide. Not a chance in hell it’s a random glitch starting on a Monday morning, ha.

Twitter likely doing a subscription drive, trying to capture the likely millions that read but don’t have accounts. Seems like a data drive to get your email and other info in account creation.

75F off a min of 45F… 3rd Top 10’er in a row.

There’s a ton of small transactions too though, hand and toe warmers take are the largest selling items and they are less than that coffee and donut. Most people buy the big pricey stuff like lift tickets or lessons online ahead of time. It’s the smaller items like F&B, coffees, hand warmers, a face mask, a beer, fridge magnet or post card, that make up a lot of transactions. Obviously still not cheap (marked up) but most single transactions a $20 can cover. People just don’t carry it. Its also a large enterprise so you aren’t worried about the transaction cost to the bank for the business like you would a local coffee joint. I can see the mentality of just “put it all on the card this trip and we’ll deal with it later.”

The farmers markets too… so many tourists don’t think about it ahead of time but the weekly large market on Sunday is obviously all cash. The nearby ATM does quite a good transaction fee amount I’m sure on Sunday’s with a line 10 deep to take out cash .

Ha I hear that. Still reasons to have cash around and Uncle Sam having no records. Tips, under the table work, contractors will give a discount for smaller jobs if you pay them in cash so there's no record of it, etc. There's a big green industry in Vermont that keeps cash flowing around too.

We get a lot of people up here who don't even have cards on them, much less cash. Apple pay or Google pay. Cash definitely seems like it's on it's way out to be honest. Extremely small number of cash transactions these days, to the point that it's not even worth having a cash office at the ski area anymore.

Yeah I notice it more in the evenings now… can’t start a hike at like 7pm anymore with twilight well past 9.

Foggy 46F out there letting the dog out. Local PWS all in that 45-46F range. SLK 37F HIE 40F BML 44F

Travis Pastrana set new MWN Auto Road record today in the race to the clouds or whatever it’s called. 5 min and 28 seconds is absolutely nuts on that road (7.6 miles). Lose it at speed in several spots and your car rolls 1,000ft down the mountain.

55/52 That cooled off real fast with the sun going down. Lost 10F in the last 60 minutes.

You get cold getting out of water when it’s 80 degrees and full sun on a beach?

Fair enough, beach definitely. Swimming with the dog in ice cold river water earlier was a bit nippy. Getting water past the groin was difficult.

It’s true, I’m not sure when the last time was that I carried cash on me. Town of Stowe had a 2-hour internet outage on a Friday evening from like 5-7pm recently that wrecked town. Hotels, restaurants, shops, even gas stations couldn’t process any electronic payments for two hours on a busy Friday evening.

I mean I get that it's nice to look forward to more extreme weather, even if it's high dews. Dreading something just sucks, so might as well embrace it and look forward to it. But there's no way it is not nice enough to do something with the family outside today that you'd need 70 dews to do. The up and down is sort of nice and at least interesting as temps can go.

69/50 Step outside, stretch your arms and smile in this air like it’s a Foldgers commercial.

It all worked out. He seemed a little wild with a lot of full counts but didn’t walk anyone right? Just the roar at Fenway when he first came out to the mound in the top of the 1st gave me goosebumps. Been two years since he’s pitched. This does feel like when a kid’s travel soccer team is struggling, so the coach arranges for a game against the town’s B-team to get their confidence up. You just pray it doesn’t backfire and the B-Team wins, ha. I feel like college teams do that all the time too. 14 runs scored for the Sox and the 5th inning isn’t even done.

Puffy Cu, sunshine, 76/54 in the valley. After the past few days it feels like Columbus Day weekend outside right now .

Hopefully enough to carry fans to grill and beer time early evening. I bet he goes 80 or so based on his rehab start progression.

Have no idea what’s going on in the “real world” anymore. Ignorance is bliss as they say . What a day to be alive. Chillin with the dog and wife on the hill, head home later to see Chris Sale pitch, no humidity and a good breeze. Perfect Saturday.

Help is coming for you. Dew was 70F at 9:40am and now it’s 61F. You can feel it with ever puff of wind, a little drier each time. We are 71/61 and dropping after a half inch of rain this morning. Windows and doors open, A/C off. We should see dews fall through the 50s today. Only a matter of time for you.