Powder to the people

We had a really heavy blizzard this week, lasting for five days.

This weekend was the time to harvest, from the heavy snow fall. We went up to the mountains, and had a great time skiing in all the fresh powder.

The wind calmed down, but the snowfall continued throughout the weekend. I was off-piste skiing in the sparse birch forest with the kids. Today, it was powder all over the place, even on slopes that are normally groomed. Great! The white gold >:)

(I forgot my camera at home. The picture above was taken about a month ago. It's Little Boy skiing in the birch forest. This seemed to be the weekend when we forgot almost everything. When we stopped on a gas station on the way to the mountains, I found that I had forgotten my wallet and my cell phone at home. I asked my old lady to pay, but she had forgotten her wallet too. Fortunately, Little Boy had some cash that he got for his birthday a couple of weeks ago. He was kind enough to let me borrow his money >:D )

Blizzard

I'm working late again tonight.

I took a break at 5pm, and went home to feed the kids (my old lady has been out traveling last 3 days, on a business trip to the south). The kids were hungry, so we made some quick and simple stuff; pizza from the supermarket.

Then I went back to the office, to prepare my lecture for tomorrow morning. The subject this week is simultaneous joint inversion, the Holy Grail of inverse problems. It's about throwing all different kinds of geophysical measurements into a big computer, at the same time. Then, after a while, a unified picture of the earth pops out, we hope. I'm not actually gonna do it. I just teach the theory behind the method. It's like a mathematical concrete mixer.

Teaching is great fun, but the preparations take quite some time, because I always want to be well prepared. I try to imagine that I'm on the students side of the classroom. What kind of lecture would I liked to get? A systematic and comprehensible presentation. That's what I try to make. It's my last week lecturing this semester. Next Thursday I can do something else.

There's a really bad blizzard outside. It's been snowing and blowing like Hell for 3-4 days now. I have to dig the car out of the snow for the 4th time today. If the wind calms down we may get some good powder skiing this weekend.

Now I'm going home, in the white inferno. At least I will try ... >:)

(Sorry, I didn't have a good picture at hand. Above is our weather forecast for the next 24 hours. Doesn't look too good, does it? Maybe it's getting better for the weekend >:) )