Ski Bum Poet

Ever noticed that you can create TinyURL custom aliases from their main form (on homepage) for the service? Actually, I guess I should ask first if you know what TinyURL is. Haha. Here is the description on their site header. Pretty simple..

Making long URLs usable! More than 240 million of them. Over 2 billion hits/month.

Check this link: http://tinyurl.com/fatskis, which redirects to my Squidoo lens for “Fat Skis” (I just snagged the “fatskis” alias from TinyURL, a long with about 60 other aliases over the past week or so. Not sure why but going on the notion that keywords in URLs you control hold at least some value). At any rate </end> geek web marketer post …just thought it was cool.

Even a Bush appointed Defense Secretary agrees with the decision to shut down Guantanamo. I will reserve any more personal comment because I said I was done with political commentary on this blog.

We’ve been working hard at the KSL classifieds for a couple of months now, trying to find the perfect, small and low cost camping trailer. It’s mainly to keep the wee one off the ground sleeping, but I have to be honest…I’m kinda looking forward to a queen mattress for camp nights for once. Must be getting old

Today was rough b/c we had a tent trailer in our sites. It was a Viking “Mini Gasser” and it was compact and about 750 lbs with a cargo storage unit on top. Told the seller at around 10am that we were interested, and would be there in around two hours (as we are about an hour drive from SLC). By the time we got to Salt Lake it was gone.

The day ended up really good though. Not only did we head downtown for the Living Traditions Festival (for lunch YUM), but we hung out with a few friends after we have not seen in a while.

At any rate check out this little camper. It’s 10 feet long and no used turd receptacle. This is a cropped pic direct from the ad, and here is the description that was posted with the ad photos:

This is a great trailer. I will post pics of the inside later this evening.

It has 3 types of lights
-shore power (works)
-12V (works)
-Propane (works)

The Heater and Stove work both great (I know I used them last night!!)

This trailer has a sink, fridge, storage. Two very large benches which turn into a great sized bed (larger than a queen).

There is all a fold down twin size bunk.

The trailer has newer 15inch rims.

I rewired the harness and installed new marker and tail lights (LED BABY!!)

As you can see in the pics this thing pulls perfect behind a pickup and would compliment a jeep perfectly.

Sold. Sick of fartzing around looking for one of these. Time is money shopping around everywhere for days and miles on end. Get ‘er done. Plus now I can remove the damn live RSS bookmark for the ad category at KSL from my Firefox toolbar! Made the deal over the phone and we’ll have it hitched up by 9am, with a quick pit stop on our way to Cache Valley for a day visit with family.

The Anniversary Sale at REI is on from now through May 10th. Thought I would let all ya’ll know about that. D and E and I were down at the REI on 3300 South in Salt Lake yesterday and it was going off. We went down to pick up the classic Roll-A-Table from Camp Time. Always wanted one of these. Thanks to my Mommy what a great birthday gift

At any rate, if anyone needs any gear take advantage of this sale.

Is this really necessary? …especially considering they are by the pool?? Someone should tell them that those masks only help keep sick people from spreading germs. And not protect those that are healthy from getting the germs. Hey at least their lips won’t be sun burnt. What a couple of tools. (picture from CNN, BTW).

This whole thing is starting to remind me about a time when media and hype had Home Depot selling out of duct tape and plastic, to protect from Anthrax.