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just ducktape over all your crampons points and that'll solve yer rope problem!

thanks - bringing her back from the hospital tomorrow if tonight goes well - she only occasionally talks to me like i'm lucifer now learned some fun family triva out of this - turns out my ma's grandfather died in 1918 when her mother was just 2 weeks old - the spanish flu of course, the one that killed more in 1 year than all those killed in all the years of the great war just before it combined - my daughter would no doubt have shared her great, great grandfather's fate if she hadn't gotten the care she did - as for him, the hospitals in those days had nothing to offer, so he died at home, but not before he called a priest in to baptise his girl and give her a name, genevieve

naw, ya just got to be a lot more intoxicated, well dressed, and weighed down w/ thermoses of coffee

i'll beat tyler to recommend skipping the bolt ladder on the upper part of the west face in lieu of swing'n round and doing the nw passage once atop p1 of the west face - much kewler and practically no bolts.

Jim says he was quite the bad ass back in the day. He certainly was. I miss Ken. no need to miss him - jim had him out a month or so again and i was able to See the Legend and swap some fine stories

i put my ballot in the mail 2night, so i'm pretty certain it'll never get counted

i somehow doubt i was the only uva student to have a truly satisfying piss on a statue of jefferson

no worries ggk - i'm not afraid now nor was i earlier - i understand this particuliar infectious agent is not bad compared to several thousand years of comparable agents - kev seems more of the "all vaccinations are bad" persuasion though, which is patently stupid (though feel free to qualify that there kev) who though are you accusing of fear-mongering ggk? if it's the media, then it's yelling into the hurricane - of course they love fresh blood and at the moment that's the closest thing in town - if yellow fever could claw its way back into the world, i'm sure they' change focus! (and what a cool illness, by the by - the yellow jack was once called "the american plague" and plainly showed the effects of evolution as it was something liek 70% mortal for honkies but only 10% for africans, who'd been exposed to it in their native continent for millenia)

you learn something new every day (well, maybe not kev, but i thought he might find this interesting, and it fits w/ some other thread i was malarking in this morning) vaccines have always brought out the crazy in folks, including one of our founders - ben franklin, who refused vaccination on the same grounds as the bone, and later wrote this in his autobiography: “In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the smallpox taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of the parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen.” kev, i personally could care less what you do w/ you n' yours, but i do know you are seriously attached to your kids - you're welcome to come by doernbacher's tomorrow and see what it looks like, and that's not fear-mongering, just useful to see what the consequence of your counsel is - my daughter was already infected when she got the vaccine, my son was not - by the time she was sick, his vaccine had provided a resistance (obvious b/c he's 3 and eating/drinking after her and hygiencally challenged like all 3 year olds - they sleep in the same room and spent the whole first 5 days of her sickness in each others 24 hr-day copmany) you should see her - a sad, sad fragment of a normally bouncing of the walls active fun kid that's a long way off from her old self

hey, i recall that bomb-thang too - an old shitty cooler left by the trash can no doubt so someone could have it if they wanted but instead probably taken out into the middle of a field and blown up man, the beacon crowd really represents well when we go abroad bill, weren't you saying the 1st pitch of the west face had to go in 30 minutes? did you offset nuts scott? those things fucking rawk on smiff aid routes, much more so that at the beacon-wand - go back and do the rest, and spend the night in the cave - you'll dig it!

stonehead, our forefathers were hardly infallible and i would hope you don't need a list of the things in the constitution that currently have nasty black lines through them as evidence also, jefferson, who was far from revered in his time, was quite hostile to religion - he and many of hte intellectual anchors of the revolution were certainly fans of voltaire, who was a screaming atheist

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. " - Douglass Adams, who'd be my god, if he hadn't ruined his omnipotent status in my eyes by going tits up and taking on a frankly gamey smell

it was my berf day - i was triente y cinco n' shit

ya gotta climb there occasionally just to chase off the hordes spray-painting ht erock and fucking their cousins, no?

i've done the whole thing sans cord when i was too poor for counseling and it worked wonders to straighten me out p2 i'd never do again - jeebus. p3 i've done a # of times but don't like so much b/c there's parts that are a bit crumbly and its often thin, thin thin p1 is fun, but not so much w/ a rope to rap w/ on your back or trailing p4 is fantastic and i do it very often - sublime - perfect choss-free rock - your bulge kev causes the contriv-meter to spiek to 10 as its 4th class to step 5 feet around it and cross back over the top to the easier crux

reason is a fart in a stiff breeze

my solution to my not yet acquiring new filters for my heat system has been instead just to break out my denali-bag for the couch (well, and spend plenty of time at a hospital, where gramma is ALWAYS cold)

you might be interested to know kev that my son was vaccinated at the same time and did not get sick - my daugher is in full day kindergarten though and was in all liklihood exposed before she even got the vaccine you might like the story of edward jenner kev, at least if you like getting worked up over vaccines - he used his own flesh and blood to test his smallpox vacine, and while it didn't kill his son strait off, it did apparently wreck his health and facilitate his early death - you can google that shit man my daughter got no worse today, but no dramatic improvement yet - cheerful more often than late, but still quick to slip into full-on monster mood - guess it gives me an insight to how she'll be when she's 16?

post hoc, ergo propter hoc? i'm off to stump-towne!

thanks also relevant, she had the vaccine, but it was just a few days before she got sick so didn't have time to provoke an immune response (or, caused it, if yer bill maher )

as to fear mongering, the kinda folks who get all antsy about shit like this are usually nervous about a thousand other things everybody needs a hobby to distract them from the fact that, as the good reverend jonathan edwards said waybackwhen, we're all sinners in the hands of an angry god

Surely, you jest? i wish - it's why i didn't get kevbone my omsi tr last week i have been able to do some fine buildering on the lower level of the doerhnbacher hospital though - really cool 5.4 chimenys of concrete textured rock eowyn's gonna be fine i reckon - it's just i've felt like tomorrow will be better for a week now and it's kept not happening - my whole adult life i've managed to keep meself out of hospitals, so the expereince is novel, but not really in a funky-fresh-getting-blown-by-a-porn-star good kinda novel way... worth pointing out that she's always been a super active, healthy kid and seeing her practically incapable of moving under her own power, apathetic sometimes and crying angry the rest blows

not gonna read a manifesto of such length, but its not fear mongering is it to relate that my 5 year old daughter is currently in the hospital w/ a tube running out of her chest, listless as dead fish, for 7 days now as a result of complications from the bacon flu?

aid!!! belayers loooove it

speaking of dr. stranglove, here's a cool anniversary for you - today was the 48th anniverary of the largest man-made explosion in history - the russians set off "tsar bomba" oct 30, 1961 - the bomb itself weighed 28 tons and was so fucking huge it was never intended as an actual weapon, more like a gross physical salute to going all out to fuck some shit up! they basically strapped it onto the outside a b52 looking thing that could barely lift it the initial fireball was 5 miles in diameter - the bomb itself equaled 50 million tons of tnt (and could have been 100 if they hadn't purposefully reduced it from the theoritical 100 megatons) - a person standing 62 miles away would suffer 3rd degree burns from it - meow! [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCkhYhmKgv0&feature=related