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I think having house/senate/presidency/judiciary all in one camp, either camp, is a recipe for disaster. Current situation is a case in point, and I don't see much appeasement of my viewpoint going on, so don't blame the deficit on liberals.

I was just partially listening to the NPR story on the latest jobs report while on my back inside the sink cabinet replacing a faucet. I didn't listen well enough to regurgitate, but it did set me thinking about my personal jobs report. I'm a general contractor in Olympia, and while there's talk of falling home starts, I haven't experienced it yet. In fact, I have more work than I want or can handle, hired a sixth carpenter yesterday, and would hire a project lead at the drop of a hat if I could just find a qualified one. For the most part, my clients are not wealthy enough to benefit from Bush's tax cuts in any meaningful way, so I sure wouldn't endorse those defict plumping measures, but not looking past the end of my nose, the financial world looks pretty rosy to me. Of course, one of my carpenters is just a temp framer who's moving to Seattle to go to dance school at the end of the month (there's a sterotype shatterer, eh?), and there have been several times I couldn't keep 4 people busy, let alone 6, so I don't know if this is just a temporary boom or my new reality.

NSFW!!!

Bring It. What, you want a pat on your parrot poop encrusted shoulder because you have a back up avatar? Don't make me play wack-a-mole with you Mr. Wolfe, I can smack 'em down as fast as you pop 'em up.

It did come with a tepid warning: "Probably NSFW" means "probably not safe for work." It would have been better to dramatize that warning a little more clearly, but "toilet+orange juice" should have set off some alarm bells as well. Sorry for your shock, though I rather thought you to be unflappable.

go on, admit it, it gave you wood.

You must be in Penis, Arizona.

Oh, sod off you whining pissbucket, you're banned!

Gorgeous. The Fisher Creek Valley is equally wonderful when the meadows are full of flowers, a great place.

Yes, those Ukranian knock-offs are stunning. I wonder if anyone is concerned about their use of the terms "camalot" and "flexible friends?" Check out the quality manufacturing: that paint job, tidy swage covers, and precision milled grooves just knock me out!

You should post the best of your pics on the gallery here (and then link to the TR), it would be nice to see them in higher resolution. Looks like a great trip.

That'd be great, you shoot good mountain pron. Looks like a great day in the mountains Zoro, thanks for sharing.

5/31/06 Chance of rain this afternoon, but odds are things will be fine. The cliff is surprisingly dry considering the recent rains.

Or gone to the Tieton, it was very pleasant, and much closer.

I'm against it. I bet Dean Potter was there.

I got some great placements out of the smaller ones as well, but then I'm a hex guy from way back who thought it was brilliant when Chouinard stopped making them symmetrical.

I placed a few of the WC curved hexes today, and give 'em a big thumbs up. The dyneema slung ones are really light, gonna find a place on my alpine rack for sure, though Joseph Healy's testing of slightly aged dyneema slings makes me leery of just how long I'm going to let the factory slings stay on these puppies.

Mister Desmond Dekker got a crown made of gold

*sigh* You make it sound so ronrey!

Well, not me not this weekend, but I swear one of these days I'm going out there with you Sobo, that place sounds so great.

Sounds like you're thinking for yourself Octavius, you'll do just fine whatever your choose for sources of instruction.

I think I can explain it in one word KK: wrestler

I've come out of the closet as a bass player. I now play in the bedroom.