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[doomglobe]

Presumably your dealer let you have the first hit for free.  Ice climbing looks like an equipment-intensive pastime.

It cost me about 500 bucks on top of the rock climbing stuff I already owned, on craigslist/ebay. Nicer gear would have run me 1500 easy. Still, once you have the equipment, the climbing itself tracks the price of gasoline and campgrounds. I'd say by the hour, it is fairly inexpensive. Or at least reasonable.

[doomglobe]

Do you kill aminals with that boomstick? Nice view!

[theinevitable]

well, that lady stopped responding to my texts in the middle of planning a date, after I answered a question about where I work. So I guess I'm not quite Arthur Millering yet. Whatever lady, at least I have a job.

[dejavroom]

well, that lady stopped responding to my texts in the middle of planning a date, after I answered a question about where I work.

If that's what happened (ditching you b/c of your job), then good for you. No one needs that type of people in their lives.

[wombat]

Yeah that is obviously just as well.

[theinevitable]

yeah, duh. This is why I was expressing surprise that she was into me. She presented herself absolutely as a very ambitious law student who wants to date, like, some kind of very ambitious dude. I was very forthcoming with a lot of things about my life (trying to figure things out while I work a cruddy job, thinking about applying to grad school, etc) and she kept acting really interested. Who knows. Maybe something else I did bothered her and I'm just projecting my insecurities about my job onto the situation.

[wombat]

You know, we could be wrong about this. Maybe she's really planning to sneak around your store and check you out in person before making a decision. Or maybe her phone battery died.

[dejavroom]

Either way it works out, Inev's a winner. A lonely winner, but still.

All winners are lonely.

[jay-ell]

I hear it's lonely at the top.

[Pedro Picasso]

I hear it's lonely at the top.

At least according to all these mountain pictures it is.

[KeithHernandez]

I'm a 14er in the summer type of cat, sometimes they get so crowded on top it's hard to even smoke my victory joint.  Don't worry though people, I always find a way.

[jaydub]

Practice for our kids' lacrosse league starts a week from yesterday.  Despite 4 years of being told I'm good at this, I'm occasionally feeling antsy and imposterish.  The club continues to grow - we'll have Boys Under-11, Under-13, Under-15 and High School teams for sure.  It would be nice if we could actually put together a girls' team, but that has been a carrot just out of reach since the club began.  We get 6-7 girls at various age groups, and it takes a minimum of 12 to field a team - and 16-18 to be competetive (there is a lot-a-lot-a-lot of running).  My own daughter is more interested in basketball these days; she plays lacrosse just to have something to do with me (and I bet playing at friends' houses in the neighborhoods will be her choice this year).  Anyway, with that many teams we're going to have to dig into the parent pool for support.  There's just too many pubescent males running around and goofing in lines during drills for the 2 or 3 experienced coaches we have.

[wombat]

...hang out with a Supreme Court justice I went to high school with. And like 75 of our closest friends.

[jaydub]

I don't particularly hate Mondays, but I know whereof you speak with antsy nighttime dog behavior.  Probably....4 nights a week?... my dog gets wind of something violating her territory (of vast and unknown scope) and starts running up and down the bed (over me) panting and huffing urgently.  Once the slider to the backyard (halfway across the house) is opened for her she will fling herself into the night, and will return after just enough time that you've come fully awake.

[doomglobe]

When I can catch them, yeah. But I got an Elmer Fudd thing going on lately.

However you do it, climbing places is bitchin'.

*a bunch of awesome rad pics*

Nice, man - I didn't take pics this weekend because I don't have a camera that can be operated with gloves on, and I was in -15degree + high winds at the last three belays and even if we had all had cared about photos more than getting somewhere where we could feel all of our extremities again, it would have been pretty dangerous to take off the gloves in that environment. Basically the background looked pretty similar to the pics I posted last week though - just the other side of Crawford notch... except the ones with my face in them would have shown the 3 inch long icicles in my beard. The climbing was rad, but the descent was insane - this really steep part of the AT that we literally slid down on our butts halfway, glissaded the other half.