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There are places that are less smoky and still allow smoking. Al's is way too smoky for me. It was too smoky for me when I still smoked. Mommy, I have wimpy lungs.

Dubliner. I don't think we've ever had it there, have we? Ix-nay on Iramid-Pay. Maybe when Avid-Day Arker-Pay wants to come we can do it there, but that is the only only reason to subject ourselves to that yuppie fuck fuck nonsense. Why I am I speaking Pig Latin? I guess I finally lost my mind.

I have a midweek season pass for Snocrummy, so if there's any night skiing to be done, count me in! I'm on regular alpine gear, but hopefully no one will point and laugh.

Nice one oddball, that you?

We ladies of Pub Club have a saying: "The odds are good, but the goods are odd."

They have the Patagucci Essenshell on sale at the Patagucci outlet in Dillon, MT, for $30 this week only. Don't know sizes or colors but I do know that they do telephone orders there.

Crystal yesterday. Didn't get into High Campbell or the BC, first day back on sticks since I got hurt at work, hadda take it a little easy. Snow conditions were good, the best we've seen all year. Some ice on the groomers and high winds in places, but Snorting Elk Bowl and some of the steeps on the front side were in good shape. Coverage is still not perfect, we both got a few shallow base gouges. Still, though, it was beautiful weather and nice fluffy pow off the piste.

Dubliner sounds like a smashing idea, also I like the Nick as much as the next (Ice)girl.

Be fair now people. There is a difference between choosing not to wear one, and thinking they are for wusses. I grew up before rec skiiers were wearing them, and personally don't see a need for one. I think helmets are fine, and that kids in particular should wear them. Condolences to the family, that does suck about this little kid.

I was sort of hoping the cat puke would fry the monitor so I could get a flat screen. Mac or PC? Who cares? Not this gurl.

The squirt bottle thing would work if I was home enuf to monitor my monitor all of the time. Give me more ideas for making it an 'inhospitable surface' up top there, that is what I am going to have to do. Thanks!

OK, so I've had this cat for a year and a half, and one of the places she likes to hang out is on top of my computer monitor. I have always suspected there was something problematic about this, and last night I saw how. I have been working long hours, 8 am to midnight, give or take. She has been sleeping indoors at night with me, and then insisting on being out when I leave, which means she goes around 16 or 17 hours without food. The result of that last night was that when she came in from the cold, she did her normal bolt-a-thon of all of the available cat food and then went to her spot on top of my monitor to hang out with me while I checked email and such, but the combination of the two produced an inadvertant effect of Tik barking on the top of the monitor. Here's where the "this can't be a good idea" thing starts to make sense. I dealt with the mess, and the monitor is for now still working, but the bigger question exists: "Can a teenaged cat learn new tricks?" I'm shooeing her off the monitor for now, and so far it is working, but what are the chances I can get her off of that monitor for good? The barfing thing with cats, well, it is something they just do. Is there any way to keep her off of that monitor, for sure, and permanent-like?

I am lucky to have a small walk-in for my gear closet. The shelves in back are fairly deep, and hold things like tents and sleeping bags stacked like logs. The sleeping bags are up on top in their storage bags, each surrounded by an inflated T-rest inside the bag. I happen to have three sleeping bags and three T-rests, so everyone gets a partner. Lower shelves hold tents, the folding chairs, rollup table, ice chest, snowshoes, and some miscellaneous gear. Those of you who have car camped with me know I like to live large while car-camping, and I have the gear to prove it. On one wall, there's a row of hooks for some packs, a couple of ice axes, and a gear sling full of QDs. On the floor there are a couple of Rubbermaids. One is full of kitchen stuff both for car camping and the backcountry, and the other is full of little things like gaiters, hats, gloves, hydration system, stuff sacks, that sort of thing. This time of year my ski bag sits packed and ready to go, though other things sit packed and ready to go at other times. Right now the skis are at the front of the closet. They move to the garage when they can't be useful, because they are always in the way.

Ca-Bin! Ca-Bin! Ca-Bin! Ca-Bin!

Well, I still don't have any AT gear, but my BC snow skills are slowly coming along, and my lungs are a little healthier now. If I can't get it together to ski by the time the Snowpup happens I'm pretty happy to hop around on my snowshoes with other bunnies or do my own thing.

Any woman who has ever been treated like a piece of meat by a man, take note.

So you are substituting prepackaged lunch meats for women? Where do you take them for dates...picnics?

I hope you will have a little bit of space for a BC snow bunny novice or two!

I'd like to encourage that the bowling thing be put off until a feasability study can be done. The reason I am saying this is not because I have to work tomorrow night.

Interested in the snowshoes only if anyone else is looking at part of this stuff!

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Duh, everything is cheaper in OR, there's no sales tax! BTW as suspected, it was just a case of a hose that didn't have a hose clamp on it. All is well in North Ballard again.