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sendordie sounds a lot like Geordie, seeing as you are from Leavenworth.

The bitch is that I like what I do. I just wish my boss wasn't such a tyrannical fuck that micromanages the shit out of everything and plays favorites. I knew from a very young age that not being a kiss ass would be a hard road to walk. Some of the people I work with are so far up my boss's ass I'm surprised he can take a shit. It's disgusting to see people with no backbone slithering around his chair like he's some kind of god. It's positively repellant. They're always bitching at their wives and lecturing their kids over the phone. Again, repellant. And I'm sick of hearing about how viewing porn fucked up his computer at home and his non stop commentary on gay marriage and the general state of women; I won't even get into his making reservations for lunch at the STRIP CLUB. It's like fucking high school. Stop making comments on every woman that walks by, quit spraying your anti semitic bullshit, quit arguing with your wife over the phone, and for the love of god shut your fucking mouth about your political beliefs at work. Go home and get laid or take a day off to go shoot all your guns you talk so much about. Do something but for the love of god, LET ME DO MY FUCKING JOB IN PEACE. I feel a little better now. Dude, you have an out if you have the guts to take it. What you do is this. You start documenting all the things your boss does that are either illegal or against company policy, like sexual harrassment, doing personal things on company time, etc. See if you can't get a coworker who also hates your boss and whom you trust to do this too. Collect evidence for about six months. I'm talking about a journal in which you record exact date and times. Take pictures and make photocopies. Finally you unload this journal and other evidence on your boss's boss. Either it works and he gets fired, or it doesn't and you either get fired or quit. Either way you will be better off.

In fact, I did get up a 5.11 that evening. I haven't tried many. I have this quaint notion that I should be able to do any 5.10 first, but that I'm learning is dumb. There are plenty of V2's I can't do, yet I try the V3's. So I plan to try some more 5.11's and see what happens.

They had a facility in the Homestake Mine in North Dakota. The company plans to abandon the mine and flood it destroying millions of dollars in improvements. That is why they are looking for a new home for the laboratory.

I can only do one or two V3's. I'm weak.

Chance of precip Leavenworth: 45% Vantage: 27%

Almost all the money for the recall has come from one man, developer, Martin Selig. This is the guy who built the Columbia Tower. I think that he has some land that he will be forced to sell to the monorail, or property the value of which would be compromised, so he decided to kill the Monorail. Seattle Times Article

Vantage is a great place for kids if you just go to The Feathers. There is almost no rock fall there and there are easy routes the kids can do and have fun on, like Where the Sidewalk Ends, 5.1, the easiest route at the Coulee.

Chicken Dijon left over from last night. Ripe Orcas pears from my the tree in my back yard. An apple from my King apple tree.

I noticed this question never got answered. The road was built to the Bornite Mine around the turn of the century. It was improved an maintained for logging purposes. Although I am certain no one cares by now.

Jim, how do you expect me to reply to your PM if you are not accepting PM's and you don't have an e-mail address listed? If you see this, I'll get there between 7:30 and 8 and climb till they close.

I'm hungry for a peanut butter sandwich.

7:30 PM. Bouldering to V3 and toprope in the 5.10's.

This is all happening because people are bored. Controversy and emotion are what the hoi polloi want.

Okay, I'll bite. I was a skinny college kid on a 10 day backpacking trip with my buddy Flint (even skinnier). We made a day trip up to some high mountain lakes by scrambling up a dry gully about a couple thousand feet. There were many lakes in the basin which my friend soon discovered had trout in them. Since he had brought his rod, fishing was what he was going to do. I spotted a cool looking series of rocky summits called The Pinnacles. I couldn't talk Flint into joining me for the scramble to the top, so I went by myself, agreeing to meet at a certain lake at 6 pm. I got to the summit and the view was wonderful. I knew then and there it was what I wanted to do more of. I then surfed some scree slopes down to the lake where I arrived at the meeting place early. Only problem was my cotton clothes were completely soaked in sweat and the sun had just gone behind the mountain. I was getting really cold fast. I had nothing with which to leave a note. I looked around at some of the nearby lakes but couldn't find my friend. I was stiff and sore and getting cold and made a bad decision to descend to camp by myself. At about 10 pm, my friend arrived at camp to find me after having searched for me for hours and throat hoarse from yelling. He was so mad he almost punched me out. He eventually forgave me. I learned a hell of a lesson about being prepared with better clothes and sticking to a plan.

That is a memorable story. I could have sworn I heard it before and sure enough, I found it (unusable link deleted by Off White because it messed up the page format)

Training from a book only counts if you actually went out and practiced the material.

So has anyone been using these dyneema slings long enough to comment on their abrasion resistance? I'd hazard to guess they would cut more easily over an edge, but maybe not.

The water bottles are lined with enamel, no contact between aluminum and beverage. I used one of their fuel bottles for years, and it never got crushed. It had some dents, but never leaked. Freezing might be an issue. Maybe cbs can figure out the relative pressures of water freezing vs. white gas being warmed up... There is no question that water freezing creates much more pressure in an inelastic container, such those made of aluminum than elevated vapor pressure of gasoline (modest temperatures ~120F).

Here are the facts. "Based on research by the California Air Resources Board, operating a jet ski with a two-stroke motor for one day produces as much smog-forming pollution as driving a car 100,000 miles." Jet skis and snowmobiles have similar engines. Suppose a day is 8 hours and the snowmobile travels an average of 30 mph. It will have travelled 240 miles. 100,000/240 = ~400 x as much pollution. Sorry, I was off a little. I do think that the snowmobiles have bigger displacement engines than jet skis, so they may indeed put out 1000 times the pollution of a car. This source says 100 times.

You'll only break a picket set as deadmen in very hard snow using powerful tackles and heavy loads. It is not really something to worry about.

People are figuring out more and more ways to dodge sales taxes, such as going to Canada and Mexico. The wealthy are more able to do this, by the way. The other thing that needs to be clarified is that all sales tax would not be eliminated under the Sims proposal. Only the state portion would go. Local and county portions would remain. I do not recall what is the breakdown.

Each sled puts out at least 1000 times as much pollution as an automobile or snow cat. The phase in of four strokes will take TEN YEARS.

Like on Dark Rhythm, for example?

Chumstick Snag, West Face(?), 5.7, A1, and that is dryad climbing. Mattp has the connections, if you want to climb it, but my curiosity is already sated.