Osler's Razor

As yesterday's post attests, it has been a not-so-great week thus far.  But, it is Spring Break at UST law, so at least I have a chance for a little escape.

IPLawGuy (pictured above, driving the Barbie Jeep) and I are in Jackson Hole, Wyoming for some skiing. If you haven't heard of Jackson Hole, here are some key facts:

-- "Jackson Hole" is apparently an amorphous term used to refer to almost anything or anyplace in Northwestern Wyoming.

-- At the same time, nothing around here seems to be a "hole." In fact, it's all up above 6,000 feet or so, which is pretty much the opposite of a hole.

-- This seems to be a place for really serious skiers. You know, the kind with their leg in a cast. I'm not sure if that bodes well for us.

-- When we were renting the Barbie Jeep, there was a series of warning signs about the dangers of hitting very large animals. There were actually two different signs warning about hitting moose and elk, respectively. The one about elk featured a drawing of an enormous elk lying in the road, bleeding from the head as a totally smooshed car sits motionless while the driver, apparently dead, slumps over the wheel. So: don't hit an elk. Got it.

-- At the grocery store, everyone else seemed to be in the same boat as we were, meaning that they couldn't remember if the place they rented had a coffee maker or not, and if it did what kind of coffee it took. So we all stood around in the coffee aisle and talked about it for a while....