>Ripped from the headlines:

My comments ripped from whatever was crossing my mind while reading...

>http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/12/24/western.ski.towns/index.html?hpt=C2
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>I spent a terrific week at Breckenridge. Four couples, two of us married and two not yet, rented a house right by the slopes. The women had all worked together at GTE.

Now that would be Grand Theft Experts, Greater Than or Equal, Grand Tourism Electronic, Got To Enjoy, Go To Eof(),...

>As it turned out it was the end of our child-free, care-free yuppiedom. Many children followed

...in their footsteps? Should have levitated over the snow to confuse any trackers.

>, not that I am complaining. It just turned out to be the marker between one part of our lives and another. We spent the whole time skiing, cooking for each other or going to amiable restaurants, sitting around the fireplace (Terry Quinn, firestarter extraordinaire

Arsonist?

>) making each other laugh. It was a truly fun, blissful week. You look back and think damn, freeze this moment, freeze it right here.

Where else? Here. Or there. Yep, freeze it right there, feels much better.

>The skiing itself was really nice.

The rest of text was surprisingly unambiguos and no random thoughts popped (in or out). Probably the last of today's liter of coffee chose to finally kick in. It was about time, it's 18:25 over here.