Gary_Yngve

The magic question of the day is can I make it all the way through Pub Club tonight without a nap? Been up coding since yesterday morning. My mix of Mark Twight punk has been keeping me going.

Pub Club at the College Inn after the show!

I just looked at the name at the dude at CAC who helped me... he was one of my students last year!

What's the deal with these caffeine drinks? I have never drunk one of them so-called energy drinks. (Though in undergrad, for one really big deadline, I had a small plastic bag -- I believe from a cig carton -- sealed shut with a lighter. It contained pure anhydrous caffeine, and I'd mix a drink to the desired potency so I could keep on working... gotta love the local dealer.)

That doesn't bother me one bit -- it's happened to me my entire life. Even the Selective Service screwed it up one time... got this nasty letter threatening arrest because they claimed I wasn't registered.

On another note, they wrote our email addr as climbing@u, not climb@u. I called The Daily this morning and demanded that they fix it immediately. They told me that I need to email Features, and they'll fix it at their discretion. At the same time, I emailed CAC, explaining to them The Daily's incompetence. Within an hour, we had set up climbing@u to go to climb@u. Computing services at UW (CAC) rocks!!! The Daily can learn a thing or two from them.

Who thinks that the author (she) of the article was getting just a little wet thinking about Colin? "When he spoke, the brown curls that frame a high cheek-boned face bounced back and forth, emphasizing widespread hazel eyes. A cobalt blue bandana dotted with little white flowers was wrapped around his head warrior style. In a loose blue T-shirt and well-worn baggy jeans, the pre-mechanical-engineering major looks like a regular easy-going guy."

They wrote an article on the Climbing Club. Well, it turned into an article mostly on Colin. They wouldn't let me do them the service of proofreading their drivel, so I sent them an email: > Be especially careful that there are no typos in our email, > website, forum. > climb@u.washington.edu > http://students.washington.edu/climb/ > http://uw.cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ They only listed one of the three, and they SCREWED it up. GRRRRR! They totally slighted the club. No mention of our big shows. Only the briefest mention of meetings and gear. They listed my first name as Gary in one point of the article and Greg at another... INCOMPETENCE!!! GRRRR!!! Klenke, you're right... these folks are destined for UW admin.

"Grivel Mont-Blanc" is the whole name of the company. The model is something else, perhaps "Pamir."

I think you should be able to punch the dude in the face, take his phone, and turn it off, all in the name of self defense.

That Ralph Regula guy needs to fuck off and quit meddling in the affairs of the PNW.

I'm meeting tomorrow or Monday with the assistant director of UW's Office of Risk Management. I wonder how that will go...

The Climbing Club has to pay the university for facilities, equipment, staff to watch over us, staff to collect tickets, etc. It's pretty lame. I assume your college is a little more helpful. For that matter, I had to: fill out the Reservation form fill out the UUF form, get it signed by a big dood, and then turn it in to someone else fill out the Fundraising form fill out the SAUF form fill out the Ticket Sales form, get it signed by a big dood, and then turn it in to someone else toss in two or three meetings with bureaucrats, a 50% advance deposit on our expenses and multiply that by 2 for the two shows we're having, and all of a sudden, the workload from these two shows is basically a part-time job. There is often incompetence along the way. "Here is my reservation form. Do I have the room reserved?" "It's not reserved by anyone else right now, but earlier today, someone else could have reserved it for that time. We'll get back to you in two weeks." There are a few nice folks who are helpful; you know who you are. Oh yeah, with some luck, tomorrow I'll be receiving a $1000+ travel reimbursement from the U... for travel in July. I don't even want to go into the incompetence on that one. Sometimes I feel that the Climbing Club is succeeding in spite of the university, not because of the university.

When a certain figure of authority saw our flyer for our recent Rainier meeting, I was told, "You better not be giving any advice on how to climb it, because you could be liable." Hey bitch, I have some advice for you... get that fucking picket out of your ass! I then made a specific point of having a slide with my top ten points of advice for climbing Rainier.

The Climbing Club has to pay the university for facilities, equipment, staff to watch over us, staff to collect tickets, etc. It's pretty lame. I assume your college is a little more helpful.

He has GPS data to prove it.

Doesn't say on the poster, but tickets in advance at HUB Ticket Office.

double post...

It doesn't say on the poster, but $8 for non-UW folks.

Yes, in the case of a high- or low-angle raise or lower. But from the haul set-up that I saw in the video, it appears to me to be a helo op. In a helo op, there would be a tag line attached to the litter to prevent spinning (if there was a litter). Since there was no litter, there would be no tag line. You would be at the complete mercy of the attendant and the jungle penetrator. It appears that either the attachment link failed at the subject/attendant, or the short haul line failed. ok, that makes sense. so ideally the rescuers raise/lower the subject to a safer spot for pickup... but if that's not possible... I remember hearing that in NCascadeMtn (is that the right guy)'s rescue on Chimney Rock, he didn't have an attendant when they flew him off and down to a safer spot. I guess that way it's one less risk for the rescuer.

egad, what happened there? anyone know spanish? looks like the patient and attendant got dropped? (operator error, anchor blew, rope chopped, etc.?) isn't it standard rescue protocol for there to be a main line and a belay line, with separate anchors for each?

There's a dilemma there: the casing over most doors is not nailed on well enough for fingertip pullups. I once lost my deposit on a rental house because of 8d nails with big old heads placed through the casing of several doors for re-inforcement. I'd recommend using about 4 6d (that's "six penny" at the hardware store) finish nails. Finish nails have very slight heads, and with a nail set (long tapered hardened steel pin specific for the task) you can set the heads below the surface of the trim and fill the holes with color putty, and the landlord will likely be none the wiser. You mean they actually look above the door? Wtf? I drytool up there when I'm bored.

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