I'm not sure how to catorgize this post as. It could be "televsion", "cinema", "travel", or "I'm a complete idiot", but i'll go with "it really sucks when" because it really sucked.

I skied Sunday at Kirkwood with Russell and Dino. We got there early, skied hard and left early, around 2pm, because we were all beat and Dino took a nasty spill on his snowboard, smacked his head against the mountain and was mildly concussed. We got back to the house around 3, I had a shower, finished up my laundry and hit the road around 3:30 thinking I would get ahead of the weather (it was suppsoed to snow all night) and the traffic, and make it home in time for the Academy Awards. I was wrong on all three accounts.

I was hauling ass out of town and then traffic came to a complete halt for 45 minutes for no apparent reason on the 50 just before Placerville. When that finally cleared up, it was smooth sailing until I got just west of Sacramento when the skies busted loose and it was raining so hard it was giving me a headache. The pace slowed down to about 35. It was dark. I couldn't see shit out the windows. It got so bad, I pulled over and went to Target to get some kitty litter and let some of the traffic get ahead of me.

When I finally got home just before 8, four and half hours after I left Tahoe (the ride normally takes 3), Chris Rock was introducing Gweneth Paltrow as the only woman ever to breast feed an Apple. It was the only joke I heard from him. I saw Jamie Foxx win, that was great. I saw Clint win twice. And that was it. The show was over, I missed it and it was time for Barbara Walters.

Days Skied This Season: 11