Setting Up San Francisco Ski Fest

Alex and Alica Getting it done


It's starting to come together.

Danielle and Alica looking cute.

Alcatraz

The crew worn out after a long day.


Today the Porters crew loaded up three huge trucks and headed down to San Francisco for the huge SF Ski Fest. We all met at the warehouse at 5am, the trucks were already loaded and ready to roll. The drive was slow it rained off and on, it took us about 4 hours to get to Fort Mason with one stop.

Upon arrival the eight of us were in full set up mode. We do four tent sales a year, so this sale was a cake to set up. Within the first 4 hours it was looking like a legit sale, we ended up staying till five pimping it out with signs and organizing.

Were now all checked into our hotels and getting showered up to go out. It's always fun to be in SF the city is always going 24/7. This is going great weekend lets hope the sale is a huge success.

Come out to the sale this weekend and say hi. By the way there is a ton of Beer and Wine vendors, it could be fun.

What 3 cats will get you

Nothing good...that's for sure! We went to a nice dinner with Danielle's Grandma and Uncle Jim, who is visiting from Spain, and come home to a broken counter top. It seems that the dish that was sitting on top of the fridge was knocked off and landed onto the kitchen counter. It broke the tile clean off! Damn cats...

Porters Tahoe and Burton's Reno Movie Premier

Saturday was a long day for me it started off spending the whole day at Golden Eagle watching Danielle play softball. I got home at 9:30 changed then off to Club Underground for the Porters Tahoe and Burton Snowboards movie premier of It's Always Snowing Somewhere. Kasey our marketing girl put a ton of work into making this a huge success. We had three bands there Hunks of Metal a local Tahoe band staring Shawn Farmer, Terry Kidwell and Bob Kline, followed by Porters own Josh Hall with his band Cohesion which tore the house down. After the first two bands the movie played and from what I saw it was really good. Then last but not least was the Supersuckers which I have never seen but they are a rocking band, that has been around for 20 years and seem to have a big following. Again thanks to Kasey and the whole Porters crew for another amazing event.

Blood and Guts Softball Tournament at Golden Eagle

Danielle was playing in a Spark's Blood and Guts Softball Tournament this weekend. She got a call Tuesday night from some random guy that got her number from someone else asking if she was interested in playing in a softball tournament. Of course she was, since the season ended a few weeks ago she has been hopping she would get to play. The first game was at 8am and it was cold 35 when she got out of the car. The team must of liked the cold because they killed the team that came all the way from Idaho. The team was hitting well Danielle got a 2 doubles a triple and a in the park home run. After the first game they had a three hour break so she got some breakfast then back to Golden Eagle.

The next game wasn't as spectacular but they still pulled it out in the last inning. After winning 2 if they would have won the next game, they would of been done for the day and able to rest for Sunday. That didn't happen the first inning the other team scored 17 runs and Danielle's team the Big Kids was never able to pull out from that hole. The loss also meant they would have to play at least one more game Saturday if not two.

The next game was at 7pm and the temperature quickly dropped from the high of 75 to about 50 and I was freezing in my shorts and flip flops, I didn't think we were going to be there that late. The next game of the day was good it was back and forth but they ended up losing in the end which meant they would have to be back at 8am the next morning for the game and they had to win.

Sunday morning it was even colder it was 31. The game started off good and they were up by 12 but half way threw the other team most have unthawed and put up 33 runs in one inning this is one of the worst innings I have ever seen. Well this meant the Big kids Tournament was done but Danielle had fun and she got to play 5 games over they weekend. Better luck next time.

Indoor Soccer Game 3

We'll we have lost all three of our games but we aren't getting killed and were having a bunch of fun. I have played goalie all games and done as good of a job as I could with 100 shots coming at you. Danielle has played the last two games and is doing a good job for never playing soccer before. She does have the most penalty's out of the whole team, if not the league. Since she doesn't have all the skill, she just uses a little rough play to get the ball. I'll keep you updated hopefully Porters can win a game.

Fall colors in Tahoe

With the colder temps the trees start to turn and soon lose there leaves. There isn't many Aspen Trees in Tahoe but the small clusters are always beautiful.

Birthday BBQ at the office

Big Johan our C3 sales manager was in California visiting some shops. It was his B-Day so we decided to have a BBQ for him at the Porters office. Our warehouse crew will take any free calories they can get, so they all came over and eat some grub and played a little soccer.

After the BBQ John, Chris, Johan and I decided to go to Java Sushi for a snack. Ya that didn't happen, John can't go into Java without them making at least a dozen rolls, he has a reputation there. I was cool with it, I didn't eat at the BBQ but the others were ready to blow i think they each had 2 burgers at the office about 2 hours earlier. It was a good time as always, Johan is a great guy he had us all cracking up.

Climbing Donner

Yesterday Rom and I went up to Donner Summit for a long lunch of Rock climbing. It had been a few months since I have climbed, so I was excited to get out there. We did 3 different routes and were out there for about 4 hours. I hope I can get out a few more times before the snow fills it all in.

Dinner in South Lake Tahoe

Last night we went up to South Lake Tahoe to go out to dinner with friends Dustin and Jenn with there kids Lucas and newborn Conner and Dustin's parents Rudy and Diane. They were in Tahoe going to a wedding that was outside and the temperature was about 30 degree's burr. Lucas was in the wedding so by the time we went to dinner at seven he was tiered. They were staying at the Horizon so we decided to walk next door to the Hard Rock for dinner. It was good hanging out, we usually don't see them very often but we happen to just see them a few weeks ago when Nate was in town. Lucas is a really smart kid and he's only 3. After a good dinner the kids were getting cranky, so they head off to bed early after a busy day.

Snow on Oct 10th

What a difference a few day makes. Tuesday it was 80 degrees and by Friday the high was in the 30's and it was snowing off and on all day. There wasn't a ton of moisture in the system so we didn't get a lot of snow but it's cold. Saturday is turning out to be cold and cloudy, hopefully this is a sign that a good winter is on the way.

Porters Indoor Soccer in Incline

Today was Porters first Indoor Soccer game in Incline Village at the rec center. Most of us haven't played soccer in a long time, for me it's been about 12 years. I started out as the goal keeper and I did alright. The other team was really good, they were setting up picture perfect plays and I would have three people coming at me. I only let 5 goals go by in the first half but girls count for two so the score at half was 8 - 5 by the way Finn scored all 5 goals for Porters he's are David Beckham. In the second half Kevin played the goal and I played forward, I was getting worked and we were so tired I forgot how much of a workout soccer was. I felt bad for our Girls Jo and Casey they had no subs so they never got a break, they were beat, there were seven guys so we had plenty of subs and we were still tired. Not sure of the exact final score but I think it was 21 - 10 Kevin did great in goal but they had so many shoots on goal there bound to go in, and there girls were really good, so they had a lot of 2 point goals. I ended up scoring a goal in the last minute as did Nicky B in the last half but besides that Finn dominated Porters offense. Lets hope we have a better game next week.

Last Softball Game of 2008 :-(

Danielle's Wednesday night softball team came in first in their division. This week was the beginning of the playoff brackets. The leagues in Sparks don't do playoffs, so initially the team thought it would be a welcomed change. After looking at the bracket, they realized that they had to play the second place team from the division above them. How does the first place team get to face a second place team from a whole division up? Seems pretty crappy... Well, the Wolf Pack team thought they would make the best of a bad match up and try to win the game. Danielle went 2-3, hitting a couple of good shots into right center field. Hitting wasn't the real deficiency here. Unfortunately, the team had a handful of fielding errors each inning that cost them runs. Error after error left the scoreboard lopsided and that was the end of the season. Danielle played left center; however could have been more useful at first this game. Well, softball has come to a close for the 2008 season. Now we are just waiting for the snow to fly...

Brads in town

Today our buddy Brad came up from the Bay to just chill out for the weekend. I worked for a few hours this morning and then he picked me up at about 11. We head to Kings Beach and had lunch with Danielle at Sancho's, the food wasn't bad. After lunch we head to Porters Truckee store so Brad could do a little shopping. After a few hours there Brad walked out with a new K2 Turbo Dream, Burton CO2 and some pants, I wasn't expecting him to get all decked out with new gear, he is going to be happy with that board, I have one on order for myself. After shopping we came back to the house to chill before we went out to dinner at Sushi Moto, which was really tasty. As we were heading home from dinner we decided to stop at the Grand Sierra and race at the Go Cart track, as usual Danielle was talking crap about how she was going to kick our buts Ha. I started out in front and never lost my lead, better luck next time, I have to gloat she always wins.

Snow is coming

It looks like we are going to get some snow over the weekend. There is a cold front dropping down from Alaska bringing high winds and cold temps. It is going to mainly rain at the lake and below with a little snow Saturday. Any moisture we get will be great it is very dry out there. Lets hope this is a good sign for a great winter.