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Hey, does anybody know if Snoboy still has his Unimog?

Darrington! Courtesty of mattp

Anyone care to guess what the elongation would be on said 70 meters of 8 mm rope?

I heard of that. It's similar to lithotrypsy and not many doctors are even aware of it yet. If it works on feet, it might work on hands. Anyway, I plan to get an ultrasound to find out for sure if there are cysts. Ultrasound is good at detecting fluid-fill cavities. Icegirl warned me that not all hand doctors are able to make an accurate diagnosis. I should have taken her advice to see Dr. Hanel. Regardless, the ultrasound will tell.

Dude, he is speaking TO the Mounties, not FOR the Mounties. It's a fine point, but there is a difference.

If we could just manage to suck in Mar..., I mean kitergal, with a thread about cheerleaders, or something (insert chin-scratching gremlin here). I mean, come on, everybody's talking football, why not cheerleaders?

Yes, I am aware of that trial. It's encouraging. At present, I can afford to bide my time and wait for the results and for clinicians to gain more experience with the treatment.

Come on, now. You are just making this way too difficult. You have to use common sense. If you don't have a good reason to do otherwise, clip alternately. If the route wanders, do what you have to do to mitigate rope drag and/or protect your second on traverses. Usually you can manage to clip alternately for your first few placements until the fall factor decreases. After that, the skinnyness of the rope becomes less of an issue. As I see it, edge cut resistance becomes the biggest source of risk. In my experience, even on wandering routes, it is seldom necessary to make more than two or three consecutive clips on one rope. You still get SOME redundancy from having the other rope. It depends on where the ground and/or ledges are.

No relatives have had it that I know of. That's the unusual thing about this. I'm wondering whether this was set off by a month long course of fluoroquinolone antibiotics I took a couple year ago. They are known to cause damage to tendons and any tissue that contains collagen.

On a tour of a sewage treatment plant - d'uh! I'll bet there are queues around the block for that tour!

Catch some Duff Beer , but don't get "toasted".

Dude, I knew you were going to post that, even before I finished scrolling to the bottom of the page! They should hire you for a testimonial. Just subsitute the slogan, "Tastes Great, Less filling" with "Get's you drunk, costs less".

I'm sure you are right, but they all do it for the money.

Supposedly, it is a Scandinavian/ Northern European disease. I am unaware of any Scandahoovian ancestors, but those Vikings had a habit of spreading their genes around, so I probably got a dose through a Norman ancestor.

I credit you with allowing me to look on the bright side.

That is pretty damn gross. Gross enough to gross me out. Where did you find that little factoid? It is very Dru-like.

Well, icegirl, I showed my hand to the hand specialist and she thought it was Dupuytren's contracture. I'm going to get an ultrasound to determine whether there is ganglion cyst in addition to the cords. I'm not happy about this. There is very little that can or should be done unless the condition becomes much worse. [update] Ultrasound shows that there is no fluid-filled cavity. Hence the differential diagnosis is Depuytren's.

Ware do you where it?

Is that him posting on Cascade Bike Club's forum?

Somehow, I'd be surprised if you told me you made fun of Cecil Fielder's name in front of his face.

You have a very good point there.

Ambergris is essentially cholesterol, or closely related to it. There are synthetic or semi-synthetic alternatives now for perfume fixatives. I always wondered what they meant by the term "fixative", so I looked it up. Perfumes are mixtures of compounds, some volatile and others less volatile. Fixatives are waxy or oily substances that dissolve the more volatile components and prevent them from evaporating too rapidly from the skin. Without fixative your expensive perfume would only last minutes.

It seems like it has been a long time since a Chair Peak NF trip report.

Yeah, by the time I found out what happened, you already had the situation under control.

Dave Ross interviewed the attorney bringing this lawsuit. As Click and Clack, The Tappet Brothers, would put it, this guy is completely "unemcumbered by the thought process".