ivan

I got two kids and a wife too. I get out....even this past awesome weekend. Don't get in fights no more. Why? I realized it aint fucking worth it. Hint...a little piece of you must die before you can live. word - my experience is just say what you're going to do and go do it - try to avoid the dates that will immediately get you divorced - try to be superman when you are aroudn to make up for it wear a helmet!

there's a tr in the oregon section on the sandy headwall - sounds to be in prime condition the descent off the i-rock gap is usually pretty icy and there's good exposure at the top - it's not that steep though - the glacier should have no crevasse issues till spring avoid turning uphill too early and climbing the reid headwall - keep traversing until you're basically all the way over to yocum's ridge

probably ivan on one of his solo laps! ( just kidding ivan ) 10 years ago it would have been andrew and ken because they were CRAZY! Actually it was Ivan, singing "Gin and Juice" the whole way. :lmao: no way that's as bad as oleg n' pete watchign that guy soloing the north ridge of stuart and stopping to scream "someone's gonna die up here!!!" every 2 minutes first time i ever climbed the corner my partner spent almost 2 hours leading the slab pitch during which the same soloist passed up two times - i was envious....

that must have been a fun belay. someone should fill up the tunnels with diesel and get some central heating going. blownout got much calmer and nicer once up to the belay - the upper pitch is pretty sheltered - the thrutch onto the topout ledge woulda been ultra-epic though

I think the trick would be not only buy him a new one but to take his old one. while stealing things from him, might as well take the smokes too - poor bastard sounds like a 1-man anti-smoking commercial!

wasn't so bad y-day - windy as hell for sure - my hands got cold enough on blownout that i accidentally punched the rock w/ my numbed hand and didn't realize it until i felt the wrist stop working and saw a big flapper on my knuckle - spent a minute moving all the gear to my right side so i could actually manipulate it did the adventure rap down the n face w/ tour-guide opdyke n' company - fun times - like a vertical hobo camp - the evidence of the 1901 ascent is wild

edit that and but some returns in between the pix, homie

can you explain your "competitive voucher system" more? do you mean charter schools? merit pay for teachers? i don't much complain about teaching pay - it's not like i went into teaching expecting to get rich - i do see my vacations as a form of compensation and i use them fully - i wonder how much more the system can really pay teachers at any rate, given that there are so many schools and even marginal increases add up to massive amounts. i find most of the parents and kids i interact w/ have a decent amount of respect for teachers - people generally treat you the way you demand to be treated, yes? i have no problem w/ expecting teachers to do a good job and tying pay to it (in north carolina i recieved a phatty bonus for getting my kids to make improvments on state tests) - there's not a great definition of what a "good job" is, or at least a definition that leads to an easy, defendable evaluation form - teaching, social studies at least, is very much an art and attempting to inject all kinds of scientific psychometrics into it makes me a wee bit nervous seniority rules annoy the hell out of me too - i recently got forced out of the classes i enjoyed the most w/ the kind of kids i connect w/ the most and had to settle for what all the old folks don't want to touch - i try to take the long view, i'll be able to elbow my way back in eventually - i don't see a clear alternative

if you're interested, read "fiasco" by thomas ricks or "the end of iraq" by peter galbraith there are many people who can answer that question - but would you agree w/ their answer?

i have children - is the next step in your inane argument going to be that, site-unseen, i'm an incompetent parent? profesional teachers have a clear line of what is and is not acceptable to discuss w/ their students regarding their private lives - who they're fucking, how they're fucking, what they're drinking, who they're voting for, etc all fall neatly on the tabboo side of the line - in a decade of teaching i've never taught w/ anyone i knew to be stepping over that line. as a teacher of social studies i do routinely discuss law and order issues like drugs - i present the arguments both for their legalization and continued prosecution. it's my job to show them how to think, the process of acquiring, sorting and weighing arguments, not to do the thinking for them. it's really not that hard to figure out...or did you just watch "reefer madness" too many times as a child? do you really think smoking a joint turns people into monsters? to my experience it mostly just makes them want to eat twinkies, bullshit and take a nap - now if that's not a threat to the New World Order, i don't know what is anyone, while on the question kick, and sincerely, do you honestly feel no cognitive dissonance in lauding your country for its freedoms (such as the 1st amendment) but then advocating its gross intrusion into the private, non-violent pecadillos of its peaceful citizens? you don't sense even a trace of irony? how do you not feel like big brother? "god i love my free country - now let me check my list of the 10 government-approved ways i can show my patriotism!" why do you think the prohibition amendment was wisely abandoned, but support the continuance of a ban on a plant that grew wild in north america before the first honky showed up and whose enforcment has resulted in your land of the free locking up a larger percentage of its population than the people's republic of china? 9th and 10th amendments? limited government? that goverment governs best that governs least? these things have no place in your heart? would you also advocate teachers signing loyalty oaths? firing them for having affairs? speeding? spitting on the sidewalk? some one please post the "arguing on the internet" picture again

could probably make sunday work ken

is this slavic slang for your body's-weight worth of vodka?

the sun was long gone even before jim left - saw one of the cooler things i've beheld at beacon while sitting up at the tree ledge savoring the sogginess - a giant rainbow just a few hundred yards to the east formed by the setting sun hitting the pregnant pouring rain-drops - lingered for about 10 minutes while jim was rapping off the first pitch - most tranquil

money pitch = slab pitch (pitch 2, from the snag ledge to tree ledge) it may be a term of my own devising, i can't remember - it's the most enjoyable pitch imho

will come off in the next year.....if you ask me. I quit using it about a year ago. no doubt - it'll be a different pitch when i'm 60 - kinda adds to the allure

i believe all the authors of our fair nation's constitution were criminals, in that they had engaged in activities deemed illegal by the law of their time is there something in my nature that makes you fear that i would allow my private life to interfere w/ my public one? do i strike you as so foolish that from my bully pulpit i would encourage drug use or prattle on about my own habits? Yes. Are your students somehow blocked from viewing your exploits on this very website? ummm...avatar? i've no interest in their myspace pages, so why would i discuss how i use my private internet time?

i believe all the authors of our fair nation's constitution were criminals, in that they had engaged in activities deemed illegal by the law of their time is there something in my nature that makes you fear that i would allow my private life to interfere w/ my public one? do i strike you as so foolish that from my bully pulpit i would encourage drug use or prattle on about my own habits?

on the contrary, i found the experience reassuring - the big foot broke but i weighted onto the big handhold and didn't fall - probably woulda needed a new pair of panties if i had been solo at the time though odd - perhaps the lack of water contributed to the hold's flakiness? it was one of the only pieces of rock on the route that wasn't pulsing w/ h2o

seriously? what grade, and where? i thought this had changed. sophmores in affluent, honky-white suburbia - it was more like 60% when i was teaching seniors last year like most human beings they're "not really into politics" reality is insignificant when you got a nice ipod and a benz

sounds like the script for an entire "curb your enthusiasm" episode

according to 90% of the students i teach, because saddam attacked us on 9/11

climbed the corner w/ ken 2day - very sporty conditions - sopping wet and raining towards evening - we did it mostly as aid - broke a big foothold just below the crux of the money pitch - seeing jim n' jon completed the gonzo-style of the ascent

where's sky's bag of potato chips?

i think about pete and iain when i go to the bathroom

oh, oh, is this where i can bitch about hating karate crack?!?