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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.

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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.

It's ice cream, you dolt! And I doubt it's anything life-threatening...it's not totally dialed in yet from getting the new motor....still working out the tuning and whatnot. Anyway, it's only got 175K on it, and I'm bound and determined to wring every last mile out of this car!!

Dave, you are going to catch cold standing around in your Freudian Slip this time of year, now put your coat on! The rest of this motley crue does in fact meEt for beer every Tuesday, and it's generally a more congenial scene than the board might suggest.

Friday: Valentine's Day. Saturday: Drive to the lovely community of Yacolt, WA. Discover Soobie is blowing oil at rate of 1Q/150 miles. Read book about granite whilst looking out window at E Fk of Lewis River. Sunday:Drive to PDX for case of motor oil. Limp Soobie back to Seattle. Work until 5AM. Monday: Laundry, hot soup, and a visit from my mechanic, who is now trying to figure out .

Green sling and a couple of biners, in the shrub to the left of the anchors at the top of the first pitch of Magic Bus, 3:00 Rock, Darrington. July or August. Maybe a red sling too.

Ditto the Federal Building in downtown Seattle.

Ditto.

Dude, anyone who can afford a mountain bike, can afford to get insurance. I have 12K worth of coverage on my renter's, and it is less than 20 clams a month. PS. Sorry about your bike.

Sorry, Battle Cage action is reserved for actual women, not the Trish Foxes of the world.

Listen, if you were real, Tim wouldn't be asking you to moderate anything on your first day. And if he wanted to see what the women of the board wanted, he would ask us. The actual ones. All ten of us. Nice troll.

Don, I'm afraid I have grown frustrated with you for some of the same reasons stated above. The words sanctimonious, condescending, and pedantic all come to my mind. When I have tried to discuss the bolting issue with you, most recently via PM, I was shut down with anger and hostility, and then later accused of same. On that particular issue (which personally is not a huge deal to me FWIW), you get so hot under the collar that you can't be rational, despite admitting that you do in fact USE bolts from time to time. I think you are a very smart guy, and I (mostly) enjoy your contributions to the board....but get off your high horse and play in the sanbox with the rest of us, willya? We're not your stoodents!! P.s.

By far, and whatever the shape, the best thing about Omega Pacific 'biners is where they are made...in PRISONS!

Huh? Who said anything about driving? And anyhow, dope or no, I ALWAYS wear a helmet driving. Isn't it required by law?