Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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Lora and I went up to Squaw Valley this weekend before heading up to New York City for the holidays. We checked the weather before hand and all looked well. Saturday started off a bit cold but nice. The mountain looked like it needed a lot more snow though. Sometime in the afternoon it started coming down. We weren’t sure how bad it would be though. The next morning we woke up, took a look outside and bolted for the car. If we had left 1 – 2 hours later it would have taken us all day to get home.
Around 5,000 feet things started to look good, but then the rain started. I have never driven in rain like this. It was so loud Lora and I had to scream to each other to hear ourselves over the rain. We saw many cars off on the side of the road spun out. Thank goodness for Quattro + All Season Tires.
Anyway, as you can see from the picture below, the bay area is being dumped on. You can’t even see Lake Tahoe in the picture below (it’s west of Reno).
Well, tomorrow we are off to New York. I hope to get a bunch of blogging in the next few days so I can catch up. I also have a ton of non-work email to go through. I’m so bad about replying to that stuff. It takes all my energy to deal with work email…