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ahhh...the brownie point system...you make withdrawals and you make deposits... NEWSFLASH...it doesn't work cuz the chickies use a different accounting system... i've found saying "Fuck it, i'm going, i'm taking the kids cuz they enjoy it, i've done enough shit around the house and its a nice weekend and i'm going to go PLAY, later..." works really well... oftentimes, when phrased that way, the wife says "you got a point, mind if i come along?"

no...they started profiling too many canuckyfuckysticks...

what is redding hard 10's????

sweet arch! How's the commute going to be????

did anyone catch john fine's letter to the editor in the newest rockandice?? it was spot on...two thumbs up to parents...

I have found that when i climb to my heart's content, absolutely everything else from job, to family, to household, to relationship is totally fucked...it honestly is a balancing act and i don't sweat it as bad as i used to... plus, i'm going injury free for the longest time that i can remember...

Rudy some fucking slobbering imbecile hacked your password. STFU DUMBASS CANUCKYBOY

Rudy some fucking slobbering imbecile hacked your password. hey...sometimes one has no choice...sigh...sunny limestone on the french riviera is a fantasy now...

i just tell her my right hand doesn't have tendonitis yet so its all good...

minx...my son was exactly that way...he'd boulder over headsplitters all day long...put a rope on him and he was done within one foot of the ground...two things helped...i put him in the little rockers at the vw so other kids were going through the same thing...and the second thing was: I made him into a "hero" down at smith...the way i did that was i put my draws up a route (chosen for him, without telling him...i think it was Jete` or Dancer?) and then when i came down/ me and all my buddies got real "sick" and just too tired to climb anymore, just didn't feel well, and all of us stressed out about what we were going to do about those draws...I looked at my son and said, you know, as many as you can clean off would be great cuz i sure don't feel well and you'd be doing me a favor...well, he managed to get all the way to the top and has never looked back since...

oh yeah...i always have a third who does the actual belaying...and there's always a set of eyes on him when he leaves the belay and when he arrives at a belay...we make him do all of his own knots and tying in etc. but its also looked over as well...

started both kids at 3 by swinging them in harnesses and helping them boulder and monkey bar around...fun timez... Both kids wigged out about heights around 4 but the older one has gotten over that by 6, and i suspect the younger one will do that too...the seven year old's done great northern slab, then rapped off by himself from the top of BOC (as well as climbing that...its a tough offwidth for him near the top)...he's also climbed the 2 pitch flank route of karate wall and rapped that...that's some exposure for a seven year old...this summer we are planning on doing the grand and some other multi's up at squamish (he can pull 5.10 and 5.11 crack routes, plus, if he gets stuck he's so stinkin' light i can winch through a tough section)...

chuck... just answered your poll...ten days a year "alone" is my number...give or take a couple days. it gets lower each year, but i'm not too upset about it. Our youngest is 7 months now and she just necessitates being home more from both parents. My oldest is 7 and he chomps at the bit to get out, so a lot of "my play days", i'm actually out with him...he can absolutely crank, so he doesn't hold me back on that side of it, loves to ski, loves hiking, bitches far less than some of my buddies do and generally is an all around good guy to be around...yeah, sure, might have to take in an animated movie down at smith, but that ain't so bad instead of hanging out with the drunkards at the grasslands... his younger brother at 4 is shaping up to be the same...my guess is that the daughter is gonna be a tomboy because of her bro's influence.... one hidden benefit to this, is my wife has gradually drifted away from outside "play"...well now that her punkins are stoked on it, she feels like she's missing out and is starting to include herself in the fun... MY SECRET PLAN IS WORKING!!!! --ropegun development --ski buddy development --packhorse development its rad!!!!

hahahaha welcome to my life, buddy...

its the fucking industry...duh...

Oh boy...where to begin...where to begin...

OMG...ITS KEVIN!!!! LOOK LIKE HE'S BEEN BONED TOO!

Then we could see your chin. no that would be cutting your's off and exposing flyin'pig's chin...

if i cut off my ballz, i'd be 80lbs less!

78 daze of plastic pullin'! YEAH!!!

all the people who go to "pubclub" are not at the gym or climbing...one would expect them to be porkers...

UTTERLY FASCINIATING ARTICLE

yeah H20...you'll have to have me over...

man it would be great to get a database of garage gyms in the seattle area... thoughts???

killer bees??