Nighty-night all of you!
Dan Black - You win the prize for most random Christmas present 2007. Sloth went to the letterbox and found a package from the UK, neatly wrapped and appearing to be the size of a DVD. Hurriedly he opens it up to discover - oh yes, an A5 spiral-bound notepad. Well all thanks to you there is no longer a shortage of these valuable items in New Zealand - I shall treasure this one dearly and use it to make only the most important notes for The Life of Sloth. There shall however be no repeat of The FEAR Manual. No chance of that thing coming back. Genius.
In other news, maybe you'd like to dream of this lot (although in a little over 2 weeks myself and my partner in grime, Mr Jermaine Matisse, will be there to check it out live. We have been unable to contact Sookie as yet - hopefully she's managed to get some new strings for her guitar as she'll be playing a lot). Still trying to get these stormtrooper boots worn in - it's a bit hot to wear them round the house at the moment tho.
Niseko, Japan, Tuesday 15th January 2008, 8:39AM
Weather conditions: Patchy blue sky, tending to snow.
New snowfall: 5cm
Snow depth: 235cm (top); 140cm (base)
Yesterday was the type of day that skiers snowboarders dream of. Bottomless light powder with light clouds made for perfect powder runs in over 30cm of fresh on top of an already powder base built up by lots of wind over the last three days. Those who got first tracks in the powder areas will have memories to last a life time. 5 to 10 centimeters fell in the Village last night and it is still snowing. It should be another great day in Niseko.
It looks like the boundary between the high and low pressure systems has stayed right over the top of us, although the high is slightly more to the east than yesterday. It should give us some good snowfalls today and tomorrow.
By Thursday the high should be dominating our weather and by friday the low looks like it will be well and truly gone to our east. So expect another day or two of snow.