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respectability - i figure it's been long contemplated, never remotely achieved - ideal in a project, no?

i'd say yer girly-friend but i couldn't stomach the shame

congrats - celebrated my 14th tonight in far more humble style w/ sushi n' kids - so...how ya get a sweet camper to a rather remote island?

jeebus

4/25-27 - days 10-12 - the long awaited hollabahoo - infernal plans pondered n proceeded upon even as mudder-earth pissed relentlessly all over them - friday mike, geoff n' i hike 6 ropes up to the summit, hop the railing, n' fix from there to the ground - bursts of sunshine here and there - the work quickly over and we head over, swingers-style, 3 of us in 3 cars to discover the whereabouts of the secret rebel base a fine evenign drinking all kinds of things as the rain came and went - yer lebowski lebowski, etc, etc saturday not so terrible at first w/ sun and scudding clouds - strangers assemble - the party grows by leaps and bounds - eventually a few of us head off to jug the lines - some wierd spots here and there and i nearly killed unknown tourists by kicking off a few good sized stones - at the summit i drank a beer than promptly damn-near broke my ankle by turning over on it while walking down the stairs and dodging the tourons - sigh... saturday evening too epic to attempt description - dogs n' kids, raffels, ole'opdycke, speeches and salutations, the savage post-amniotic scene splayed out - rain builds upon rain, the beers go deeper and deeper, and soon the day rode out of me sunday really quite nasty w/ wind and sheets of steel rain - a slow stumble-fuck back to the summit after breaking camp n' making our farewells - felt tempted to turn back from the recovery operation at the moment of truth but luckily geoff dissappeared over the edge and it was too late - not too tough to get it all back, thanks to help from geoff n' dave - strong weather once we hit earth, but then the weekend was over and it was time for wine n' school work n' hbo-fare happy 70th old man

my all-too limited time w/ Big Bill was time enough to know old-boy is never w/o a Good Story to tell nice to see your Phreak Flag is still flying proudly

nodder!

i always wondered about that scene from "ghostbusters" - you know, the one where venkman rolls up for his date, only to find she's been possessed by the gatekeeper - he makes it all okay of course, by shooting her up w/ a ton of thorazine, but man, what strange set of circumstances led to him showing up to the party w/ that stuff anyhow?

ah...but who amongst us hasn't tasted the forbidden cherries of rainier?

plenty of sharp sticks n' stones to help on most approaches - uglier on the descent potentially - remember how them old boys worked centuries ago by chopping steps when they needed to...

any fool can climb a mtn in fair weather eh?

dying at work blows

sure don't look too hard to use - price/weight difference?

*bump* on jim's bday gala next week - who's coming? anyone want to come out for a pre-party friday afternoon/evening to help string up stone soup for a jug-race saturday?

never underestimate the power of distilled potatoes

pretty good analogy for my transition from free to aid climber

far more comic would be seeing me try to squeeze into the goddamn chimneyish thing on p3 of desert shield - i really don't understand how tiny tvashie managed it

thank kee-rist i din't have to write this one up, as i spent all the first night back noodling n' drinking strong martinis just one thing to add... [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLuE6ftUI2g&feature=kp

major major major major

i see what you did there

NNEAITA! (Not Nearly Enough Acronyms In That Article) acronyms = the cruelest tyranny libtards ever awfulled the world w/

a far more tragic misunderstanding on this day for all True Friends of the South [video:youtube]

w/ or w/o faithful cur?

and/or taking a break from shagging their sister to salvage scrap metal chucked off the top of the town walls