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Remember Rob, underwear goes on the inside of the pants EROOFaVFJRg

I think you should take up peeing on roadside shrines too.

I was thinking maybe Dawg was being sarcastic? It's usually a good assumption when taking in a Raindawg Photopost©

You really know how to make a guy struggle to be positive. 9 minutes? Uh, good minutes, yeah, that's what I meant.

What you fail to understand, _cZC67wXUTs the internet is not a big truck.

It gets worse than that. Wasn't it at Bachelor where some poor guy dug a snowcave into the plowed wall of the parking lot and had a whirling blades of death type snowblower come along and devour him in the night?

solohomohuddle:

Gary, it sounds like you've been chastised in an academic setting.

Yes it is.

This is tarted, what would re-tarted look like?

Easy there Bug, I'm sure there will be some upper level ridge moving in on a Thursday in June.

Is Shock Treatment all cleaned up? That one's been on my list. Gentlemen and scholars the lot of you.

I'm in

Hey Porter, do you think you could use that steamer .gif to replace the one of the little flames for the "hot threads"? Really, just for here in Spray, but that would be a sweet little customization, and quite appropriate.

Not if I'm going to belay you and you're going to wear skimpy running shorts.

I hear there's climbing in Tenino on your way up or down, but it's private property and the owner is a jerk.

Call me a wuss, but I've always found it much more enjoyable to talk about offwidths after you've climbed them than it is to actually get in there and wrestle 'em to a standstill. It's kind of the castor oil of climbing techniques... But yeah, I'll no doubt wind up doing the complete Backbone rather than repeat part of an alpine line I've already done.

Ooooh!

In that case Spotly's warning is spot on. Test the filler on a different piece of the same kind of wood and then stain it before you commit to using that filler on your project. It's pretty difficult to get filler and real wood to take a transparent stain the same. You might also consult a really good paint store, the one the pros use, regarding which stain to use. Stay away from Home Depot if you need any advice at all.

I haven't done Backbone either, but I concur with Bug about this being much nicer overall than Serpentine. Nothing quite as sweet as the Serpentine finger crack, but the total package is really fun. Of the four routes I've done on the face, this was my favorite. I'm thinking that bottom part of this route could be used as a fast and fun way to get to the upper Backbone route on the fin. The Gerber Bone could be flat out the funnest line on the mountain...

See, it just doesn't pay to move to Bellingham.

It's hard to get anywhere in the market by touting yourself as the cheapest. Wal-Mart makes it work with volume, an option that won't be open to you. The mark up you're talking about comes with the retailers, which covers both overhead and profit. I'd guess that their markup is not unjustified, in that it's both a risky business, and it doesn't seem that lucrative, otherwise Murray would have a Lear jet. You'd do well to thoroughly develop a plan, and interview folks who've been in that game. Try Mike Graham or Ray Olson over on Supertaco, see if you can track down the guy who ran Schonhofen Packs in Seattle or Dan McHale who also did that sort of thing. It's not to say that you can't make a living with excellent designs at reasonable prices and grass roots marketing, but it can be a tough row to hoe. I started a business designing & sewing pile and fleece clothing back in 1979, and hung it up for good in 1985. While I enjoyed road trips to the Valley with enormous duffel bags of product strapped to the roof and selling in the parking lot, production sewing was drudgery personified that could only be partially offset by blasting music and herbal medication. If you're interested in using my old business name, I'm sure my attorney could draft up a franchising agreement:

I'll second the Bondo: cheap, sets fast so it's easy to do multiple coats (which you'll want to do) and it's worked well on an array of repairs. Don't neglect the ventilation if you go this route though, stinky stuff that probably gives you cancer. SC's Synco sounds interesting though...

I hear he's going to Burning Man this year.

No, but I have the super cool shaped picture disc of Motley Crue's Theatre of Pain! Hubba hubba!