Currently I'm sick, this is why I actually have time to post any sort of message on this webpage. Some of you have made the comment that I'm too busy and I should take time to just sit around and watch tv or something. I'd have to say until now I thought that was the stupidest idea ever, however I just decided that I, being fully human like everyone else, do need to sit around for alittle bit so from now on I will be watching every MSU basketball game that I get on espn out here! but besides that, heres the skinny on whats been going on out here!

as of the last post I was working for my last year assistant manager at the Mountain Adventure Center, or MAC. My job was to stand at a big desk and adjust everyones skis when they rent them. then I was promoted to run the kids ski school rentals. At that point Copper Mountain still ran all rentals out of the MAC My rental shop was setup in a conference room in the same building as the MAC, but down the hall. then, roughly 2 weeks ago I got another promotion, which is the one I was looking for ever since I moved out here. 2 weeks ago I was officially promoted from the possition of Rental Clerk to Union Creek Rental/Retail Manager. It turns out that the whole kids ski school promotion was kind of a test to see how I'd do in relation to this new position. my boss talked to his boss, I had a meeting with them, and they gave me the job. Starting last friday, Dec 16. Union Creek began business for the year. This is the far right side of the mountain which contains the most easiest terrain Copper has to offer, and contains fewer snow making machines. Copper opens the center and left side first as it attracts more guests. Union Creek is where the Kids Ski School department is run from, and is where all the beginner skiers and boarders start because of the easier terrain. My job is to manage both rental shops at Union Creek,(one for kids ski school, and one for the general public) and to manager the retail store. I have roughly 25 employees now with 2 foreman, Ali runs the retail store, Chris runs the Ski School Rentals, and I spend most of my time at our major, general rental place, I spend most of my time floating around all 3 stores making sure things run smoothly. This has been absolutly CRAZY as Chris and Ali are really the only 2 that know anything about Coppers operations as they have both been here before. of the 25 employees 10 are Australian, including Ali, 10 are South American, and 5 are from the states, including Chris and I. After the rush is over at 11, 2 of the 3 foreman, Chris, Ali, or I, leave and go board for the rest of the day! In addition to making sure all 3 operations run smoothly, my job is to make the schedule for all 25 employees in all 3 locations, open or close the registers, run reports on all of our rental info, order supplies, and retail items from out warehouse, pay our electric bills, and correct everyones time cards.

The last week has been crazy setting up shop and training employees. I'm excited for this week to progress as I'll be able to get away from operations and be able to get on the slopes more.

oh and spellings really bad because I'm tired and sick and I'm not going to check it, later

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Today kinda sucked! Its kind of a long story but I'll try and figure out how to shorten it. Basiclly the rental shop I work for is in charge of setting up all the rentals for the kids ski school. we've been running all of our rentals out of the same shop but as the season has progressed we need to split the 2 because our volume has increased and its way too congested. Today was our first day of seperating the ski school rentals and regular rentals and it was craziness. to make matters worse, I run the kids rentals now so its all on my sholders. We'll see how tomorrow goes, hopefully things get running how their supposed to. Also I just found out I have Thanksgiving off and this coming Sunday off so thats pretty sweet! Oh and my brother broke his ankle jumping on a trampoline so hes kinda screwed over for a while

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as you've probably noticed, my website looks a little different. its been about a year since i've changed things up and now that I have these wonderful pics of copper, I thought I'd ad them to the background!
Oh I have some real intersting things happening here at copper but I want to see whats all going to happen before I post it all because its kinda a long story and I want to make sure it all happens first. I'm hungry so I'll leave it at that

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I took more pics but I changed my website and I'm adding the pics to my photo gallery over at webshots.com, hit the link on the left

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I've been here for 2 weeks now and Copper has come back to life finally. I now work about 30 hours a week but after this week I'll most likely be hitting 40. I have Monday and Tuesday off every week and we have 12 new inches of snow which brings us up to 29" in the last 72 hours. Copper has 15 runs open and 4 chairs. Tomorrow I'm going to interview for a paid extra spot in some Olympic video promotionals so we'll see how that goes. oh on another note, after thanksgiving I will be going up to Union Creek to work full time up there. I worked at Union Creek last year teching skis for people to rent. Right now I'm teching skis in Center Village at the main rental shop on the mountian. Union Creek will open Dec. 16 and is now basiclly a warehouse of everything that wasnt needed all summer. I'll take pics of it next time I'm up there because its basiclly a junk yard! After thanksgiving I'll be setting that shop up until we open which means I get to organize all the stuff on the floor and get rid of it, match up all the boot pairs, tune all the skis and test all the bindings. Then once we open it looks like I will have the Lead Forman possition up there which basiclly means I tell everyone what to do, I write up everyones schedule, and I just walk around all day and make sure things are getting done. Oh and it comes with a nice raise too which I'm excited about. We'll see if it all works out because Managment is still trying to decide if they want someone to do all this or not. time to ride, I'll write ya all later

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Copper is a freaking ghost town right now!!! nothing opens til friday so none of the shops are open, non of the restaurants are open, and their arent any tourists here right now cuz thiers nothing to do. Pretty much its just employees killing time watching tv. Its kinda depressing, I cant wait for it to change on friday when Copper opens! pretty much I have 2 options, drive into frisco and hang out there or chill on my computer. I think I'm going with plan B with some guitar added in there too.

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