I’ve been in the San Francisco area for over two years. I learned to snowboard at Keystone in Colorado and rode many of the ski resorts around Washington DC where I worked at the time. One of my favorite resorts was Snowshoe is West Virginia. It is small but nice and the resort is at the top of the mountain where the lifts bring you back to the resort. Since moving to San Francisco I wanted to return to the slopes but none of my friends skied. Sure, they wanted to go and we kept saying we’d go some weekend but it never came together. I didn’t know any of the area resorts or the best way to get there. Then finally a friend mentioned the NISEI SKI CLUB’s trips and their discount for new members. It looked great! I signed up for trips 3 and 4. Read the rest of this entry »
Storks: A mustering of storks
Swans: A lamentation or wedge of swans
Swine: A sounder or swift of swine
Toads: A knot of toads
Trout;: A hover of trout
Turkeys: A rafter of turkeys
Turtledoves: A pitying or dule of turtledoves
Turtles: A bale of turtles
Woodpeckers A descent of woodpeckers
Puzzles
Apr 16
Answers to last month’s puzzles:
An easy answer for last month’s puzzle of 4 x abcd =dcba is 0000 (I lost the harder one).
For the 5 digit number, 4 X 21978 = 87912. Congrats to Greg Wong for solutions.
For this month:
Each of the letters in the addition problems below stands for a unique digit. Find the digits to make the additions correct:
President’s March Message
Mar 15
Challenging problems are always solved with challenging solutions. For example, winning the War on Terror, fixing our nation’s healthcare system, and navigating out of the Great Recession, each are complex and multifaceted and broad-based issues that will eventually be solved by the accumulation of numerous small or large “fixes” or actions, each of which may be controversial in whole or in part. There are no silver bullets here. There are no fantastic “one size fits all” or one hit-wonders that will solve these major problems of our time. These challenges will at best be solved by an iterative and interactive process that converges on the eventual resolution. The road has been, and is paved with good old fashioned hard work. Yes we will at times be uncomfortable, but in the end we will be stronger and happy to have solved these challenges of high calling. Read the rest of this entry »
In my experience, all NSC weeklong trips provide many great memories and special moments. For me, as I happened to be the trip leader for this trip, I had some of the usual great memories of yet another great NSC week, but in addition, I experienced some events during the week of January 23-31, 2010 that not only gave me a unique perspective on why we ride on snow, but also how to live life. Read the rest of this entry »
Whistler has been on my wish list of places to ski since I came to the States (ed. from England) in 1996 and after a fabulous week with NSC it is now on my list of places to return. Read the rest of this entry »
For Peg and I, joining the Nisei Ski Club (NSC) was one of the smartest decisions we’ve made in a while. We joined because we enjoy skiing and we knew the NSC would be adventuring to a resort that would be hosting the Winter Olympics. Some gentle nudging from my brother-in-law also played into our decision! Read the rest of this entry »
APR 23, 24, 25 – Fri, Sat, Sunday
NSC has a long-standing tradition of selling Chinese chicken salad at the yearly Nikkei Matsuri festival in the spring (Sunday Apr 25 this year). This has always been our biggest money maker of the year and is needed in particular this year in view of the subsidies we paid out this year to attract new members. We need to get started ASAP for this activity because the festival is so early this year, there are many tasks to complete and time has a way of slipping away all too quickly. Read the rest of this entry »
Puzzles
Mar 15
What was the man buying at the hardware store?
Answer: house number digits. Each one costs 50 cents. (so any 3 digit number costs $1.50).
How to put 10 objects in 5 rows of 4 each?
Draw a 5 pointed star and put an object at the intersections of lines. Now that wasn’t hard, was it?
A Bit Harder for this month: Find a 4 digit number that when multiplied by 4 is another 4 digit number with digits in reverse order of the first number. (abcd x 4 = dcba) Now do it for a 5 digit number. Only logic and time are required.
Ravens: An unkindness of ravens
Rhinos: A crash or herd of rhinos
Roebucks: A bevy of roebucks
Rooks: A building or clamor of rooks
Snipes: A walk or wisp of snipe
Sparrows: A host of sparrows
Squirrels: A dray of squirrels
Starlings: A murmuration of starlings
