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February: warlord: a life of winston churchill at war, 1874-1945 by carlo d'este - a big old tome at 700 pages but every page was great - never had learned much of his early life and enjoyed that bit the most - an insufferable child w/ serious daddy issues - thought an idiot boy by most, notable only for the bizarely intricate games he liked to play w/ thousands of toy soldiers - games in which no else could play, unless they swore to obey him and be defeated - a thoroughly lackluster student who only late in life took to academics w/ a vengeance a total pain in the ass to be with, never without a contrarian opinion on any subject at hand since his earliest days - many who worked w/ him couldn't bring themselves to like him, yet were thankful for the opportunity - "When you first meet him, you see all his faults. It takes a lifetime to appreciate his virtues." great quote of his on monty, a man every bit as aggravating as himself: "Indomitable in retreat; invincible in advance; insufferable in victory." and, in response to monty's claims to extreme health as a result of his tee-totaling: "well i both drink AND smoke, and am 200% fit" taken captive in the boer war, he escaped, perhaps by betraying his fellow captives who's plan he horned in on and then ruined by his hasty flight - rose to prominence as a curious mixture of soldier and self-aggrandizing journalist in india, sudan and south africa - was a renowned polo player in his youth as well, totally reckless didn't know that, after eviction from high office in the wake of gallipoli, he rejoined the army and got posted to the front line in france for a spell - he had a great taste for danger that persisted throughout his life, evident in ww2 by his watching the nightly bombings of london from the rooftops

jeebus, looks like smiff-rock got frozen n' shipped north in some of them pics

"dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs see us as equals"

"the jew...is using the black...as muscle" - illinios nazi

"i am not a crook" - richard milhouse nixon

"sorry for the inconvenience" - god

not gonna happen - i plan on being buried in an undisclosed location (party ledge on beacon) inside my big wall trash can (which will be duck-taped shut of course)

"the best argument against democracy is a 5 minute conversation with the average voter" - winston fucking churchill

"when we were kids one of us was eaten by our uncle. later we learned our uncle was a bear."

stunning mullet

i'm pretty sure cain was an aid-climber n' able a big free-climbing type

"i don't know half of you half as well as i should like, and i like less than half of you half as much as you deserve"

glass tables are bad for your feng shooey, they like, ruin yer chi n' shit

old turds don't die, they just faaaaaaaade away

"bitches gonna pay" - mahatma gandhi

Mostly the libtards who aren't vaccinating their brood nowadays. But, AK, speaking of vaccinations, I'd certainly want want a booster shot if I sat on your couch. You recently posted one of the few photos I could actually smell. [img:center]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eDt8x6EwWBA/UrdGL9zGAlI/AAAAAAAAEOw/nETikTn8o4U/w1314-h985-no/20131222_120437.jpg[/img] creepy. jesus, your non sequitur reminds me of everything i hate about my parents

looking to be one of those magic winters

everyone knows the epa is evil, shit, it's all right there in ghostbusters! i thought conservatives were supposed to love the epa? didn't that nixon feller create it? hardly a panty-waist bleeding heart, that one...

indeed.

meh. rock fall seems most dangerous off shit too steep to hold much snow anyhow.

bitches been whining about the fall of camalot since way back "If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory."

i've climbed the sunshine route on the n side of hood as late as mid-july - the cooper spur can't last into early summer as well - first time i climbed it was solo on 4th of july - those 2 routes were the original easy ways up the big hill n' climbed routinely by little old ladies in wool dresses n' alpine-stocks

congrats on surviving at least

in july the crevasse danger is all pretty obvious and strait-forward and i don't think we carried much by way of rescue gear, certainly no picketts - i actually don't recollect much of that kind of terrain getting my attention, mostly it's wilderness traveling and simple snow/scrambly terrain w/ some funky alpine issues here and there (i recall the red ledges were a pain in the ass as we headed towards cache col) party of 2 is standard and fun and easy - you do want to be comfortable in the alpine environment as there certainly are places you could get yourself good n' fucked if you slipped

2/23 - 9th bite of bacon for 2015 so far - darted out soon after the final school bell to rescue my bail gear on stone soup from yday - a much easier pitch when you have the proper gear about 30 minutes from ground to the 1st anchor - the 2nd pin came out in my finger-tips but it never was all that necessary - suuuuure hope the same knifeblades on pitch 4 are in better shape this season - need to actually carry a hammer next time i ramble on up there...