catbirdseat

Two years ago, my Astro Van was stolen from in front of my house. The damn thing was 13 years old, but I had just paid $2000 to have the engine rebuilt. The auto insurance company paid off $3,300 for the car and the homeowners policy paid me $600 for the contents, which included some of my climbing gear and tools. The car never turned up. It probably went out of Port of Seattle to Russia in a shipping container.

That's not very nice!!! Fred was referring to his Aunt Esther played by LaWanda Page (1973-1977). She was funny as hell.

You're thinking smooth granite and perfect cracks, but just tell her, "honey, I was only thinking about how beautiful you are and how lucky I am to have you."

As Fred Sanford once said, "beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear down to the bone!"

You'd NEVER do a deceitful thing like that would you, Mr. Natch?

Trask, are you out of traction yet? Did you get a decent insurance settlement?

Don't go saying things like that. His head is so big aready it is liable to explode.

Kitten, you have absolutely nailed it! Men are not nearly as complex as women. Women think a silent man must be full of complex thoughts. It ain't necessarily so. You will go far in life and live happily.

Erik reminded me of an old joke. Ooga Booga There were two missionaries traveling in the rain forest and they happened upon some local natives. They got into some sort of trouble with the Chieftian. The Chieftian gave the two men their choice death by boiling in the stew pot or ooga booga. Well, the first guy thought about it for a minute and said to himself "ooga booga sounds better than the stew pot." So, he chose ooga booga. The Chieftian called all the men of the village together and they formed a long chain and each buggered the poor bastard. After seeing this the other guy said,"I'll take the stew pot." The Chieftian thought about it for a minute and said, "It's the stew pot for you, but first some ooga booga."

I don't think that the YDS rating is relevant at all. What is relevant is that the fellow who bolted the route was not experienced enough to do the job right without extensively consulting with other area climbers. He just assumed what he was doing was right. I think that in his mind he was developing a safe route for the beginner to intermediate climber, of which there are not enough available.

How about Marymoor?

This all happend last September. I can hardly believe it hasn't come up on cc.com before now. I did a search and didn't turn up anything.

By "working for it", I was referring to the dating game, going out to night spots and finding women. By "defending" I mean fending off other men. Amazing how someone can read something and get a totally different meaning out of it. I was trying to explain why men get into relationships and how they actually gain by not having to endure the stress of finding new sex partners. However if you are trask, you don't find that stressful at all, but rather stimulating, and a challenge.

It's conflict. Conflict between those with big egos sells copy. Doesn't really matter what the argument is about. It's emotions.

Actually, Seuryncks in his rebuttal denies that his bolts were that close to gear placements, but doesn't elaborate. "All of the bolts were not placed next to obvious gear placements, as you suggested." JT didn't chop all the bolts either, just the ones next to obvious placements.

The article said that Mr Seuryncks went back and replaced the bolts. Based on what Mr. Thesenga stated, he was justified in chopping those bolts and should go chop them again until "Mr. Sewernicks" either runs out of bolt money or get's tired of hauling his drill. "Each bolt was drilled within a foot of a simple nut or cam placement that even a day-three novice could safely fish in." It appears that the two agree on the facts, just differ in philosophy. Sewernick thinks that because it is okay with the first ascensionists, a mixed trad climb can be converted into a sport climb. Screw that!

Stefan is right. In GENERAL, women have a much greater need for relationships than men. There are always exceptions. Men frequently give up great sex when they have relationships, but they gain something in exchange because they don't have to work as hard for it, or work as hard to defend what they have.

Typically when you dig you call Locate. They will mark where all the utility lines are, but there is an error factor...+ or - a couple '. The contractor could have fucked up or he could have been digging based on the information he had and the design requirements and had an accident. Things can get messy when you actually do something for a living vs paper shuffling. Indeed. My dad was once sued when a subcontractor jackhammered into a high voltage line and fried himself. He sued the contractor, the architect and anyone else he could point a finger at. Too bad he didn't look at the plans before he started hammering.

Mr Seuryncks needs an old fashioned "attitude adjustment". I'm sure there are plenty of climbers around (who don't like bolted cracks) to do it too.

That 7/8 time section gives people the fits until they get used to it. One-two-three,one-two, one-two; one-two, one-two, one-two-three. It's murder to count rests in that time.

We have another building that is unaffected. That one little building now has a huge billboard on EITHER side. It is now a "billding".

Three words: Hook, Line, and Sinker.

Is this F'd up or what? I come to work this morning and I can't get into the parking lot because there is a huge auger machine there. They are putting in a huge new billboard for Ackerley Communications or whatever. The landlord didn't say anything until yesterday and none of us were notified. To add insult to injury, they bored through our water line. The copper pipe wrapped around the bit and pulled the line out of the ground for several feet in both directions. They will have to dig a trench in the parking lot to make the repair. We will be without water indefinitely. Don't you think that a metal detector would have been used by a competent contractor?

We don't see failing high school as dishonorable, because we all can relate stories of high school dropouts who have "made it" in life, who have been successful, built up business and the like. In Japan there are fewer options for those who don't fit in. It's sad really. There was a young Japanese woman in the concert band I in which I play at Shoreline CC. We were working on a very difficult piece of music called Armenian Dances by Reed. She told how when she was in junior high school they prepared that piece. They rehearsed that ONE piece of music for ten hours a day until it was perfect. She said it had been like torture. I was amazed that she was willing to play it again. So here we were college level students and adults spending one hour a week for 6 weeks to prepare this piece. We were doing it for fun and enjoying it. The point being that the Japanese don't seem to strike a balance between work and play as we do.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.