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I had my wife review the exercises in your book last night.
She has been a physical therapist for 31 years.
She gives you an excellent review!
Cheers.
Cool! What did she think of the book? bada bing
He's here all week, folks, Try the veal.
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Thanks for that link, John. :-)
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I might try to con my way into CERN one of these days, but that's not the job for me!
I think they're on to the people wanting to make black holes for nefarious reasons now.
I figured Seattle is a good place to post this because of its high geeks that climb mountains quotient.
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Pat Ament, John Long, and John Gill have done some great writing... and climbing.
I haven't read House's book but anybody who thinks it is boring should go climbing with him and experience terror first hand.
Maybe in some future life when I've been assigned a better body.
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If you get a chance, head out to Nowra.
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How does it compare to Dave Roberts?
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Nice job, Mike. I'll have the wife pick up a copy when she's back in the US next May.
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Was Paul climbing in the Blue Mountains? That's where this other incident happend: http://www.onsight.com.au/news-blog/articles/36/nicks-accident-what-happened
The Grampians are down in Victoria. The Blue Mtns are in New South Wales.
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Right on, sling us a few pictures now and then from that side of the world, its always swell when old hands gone far away visit with a little eye candy and a story.
Maybe you need a helmet cam to send a little vid from a ride on that machine.
I'll try to pull it off. I managed to find some local guide books the other day and there's huge amounts of stuff around Lake Como that just looks sweet. Oddly enough, no one I work with climbs. There's one ex climber dude but no one else. I've never been around such a collection of techie types with no climbers amongst them. Plenty of bikers and semi-Italian girlies though.
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Yeah, I glanced at a gun shop that I happened to pass by and about had an aneurysm. Thinking maybe I SHOULD have imported something along with my personal effects. The other hilarious thing (at least, to someone like me who grew up around guns and then spent way too much time in places like Boston, SF, and Seattle), there's an outdoor gun range right next to the parking lot of the big grocery store that we go to. I'm thinking "Oh, that would have gone over really swell in Redmond."
Good times. Just a heads up - if you are looking to score either a few grand or a great pistol, I understand that the Sig P210 has a SIGnifigant price difference in our 2 countries. They are highly desirable and no longer made.
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How is the media circus down there right now?
You know...sadly...I have no clue. I've got more than enough to do so that I'm largely unaware of the whole thing (like spending half my days in Italian classes). I'm sure that'll change soon enough.
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So, I'm down in Switzerland now and do have one of the above show black Speed Triples (should show up here sometime around Oct 10 or so). During the obligatory trip to IKEA (the only place you can really afford furniture around here....and, yes, we did buy a sofa bed) i discovered a sporting goods place with a fair number of local climbing guides to start me drooling. Ski season should start soon enough...woot!
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My condolonces and I'm glad to see you reaching out to the community here and that it's responding.
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Unused pad, still in plastic wrapper.
Dimensions 20"x72". 0.75" thick. 1 lb 3oz.
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Actually, I just sold my BMW F650. Thinking about getting one o' these for those Swiss roads:
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I should mention that when I said 'each item is $10', I mean if you see 8 tent pegs, it's $10 for all eight, not $10/peg. ;-)
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Leaving overseas so it's time to clear out some crap.
This is the $10 pile, i.e. each item is $10. Please don't ask me to ship anything.
2 BD tool slings. Unused.
Mountain Hardwear gear loft
Metolius ass bag that attaches to your climbing harness. Used once. You may like it better.
2 OR bottle cozies, older style.
2 Snargs. Christ, I haven't used these in yonks.
Mountain Hardwear tent snow chutes. Perhaps less useful than they appear. I don't know. Unused.
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I work in the field of scientific and high performance computing. I've been working for a vendor for awhile and reached the point, quite awhile ago, where I wasn't happy doing basically what I felt was the intellectual version of assembly-line work. The position I'm taking is with the Swiss national supercomputing center which, for some reason (all politics, I'm sure), they chose to locate in Lugano. It's basically a chance to get both back into geophysical research and assisting customers rather than flipping burgers for the sales team. Thanks for the advice on skiing, I'm sure I'll be completely overwhelmed. If anyone needs to buy a condo in Redmond or some Ethan Allen furniture, let me know. All this stuff has to go. I'll post some contact info here when I've landed in case anyone finds themselves messing about over there.
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Seems my time here in the PNW is coming to an end. I've accepted a new job in Switzerland and am busily going through the motions of trying to sell the house and almost everything in it. Would love to get out to the crags once again this summer but am not sure if it's in the cards. At least I got 3 days of midweek skiing in at Whistler once last month. At least I get six weeks vacation with the new job and a nice raise...that and getting to live in Europe. Last time I was there I was living in Sweden and that wasn't....so great. This time I'll be in Lugano, in the Italian part of Switzerland (I may have to get that Triumph Speed Triple I've been lusting after). I'm guessing the food will be better this time around. No more herring in cream sauces and potatoes in cream sauces.... Which is great since the only other language that I have some sort of facility in is French.
So, this has been a great place to hang out though I haven't been around much lately. Kind of took a break from climbing after the loss of some partners. It's been great climbing with those of you that I've met and I'm sorry I didn't meet more of you, even the ones I've had differences of opinion with in Spray. If you happen to end up in my part of the world and need a place to crash temporarily while out chasing the dream, give us a shout.
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REI-Outlet has their men's and women's Sub Kilo +20 sleeping bags right now. If you buy before 1/29, you get an extra 20% off.
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I just love the people here. You're always guaranteed to attract at least one freak.
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I have to take next week off from work but the missus can't. Looking to get out and have some fun instead of sitting around watching the snow melt... I'm pretty non-intrusive and self-entertaining and I won't be boozing it up or smoking cigs/dope.
Job here in CH doing grid computing for CERN's LHC
in Spray
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We also have some three year research positions in high performance computing that are going wanting for good candidates. Looking for people with experience with hybrid computing (mixed MPI/OpenMP and/or GPGPU experience as well as parallell algorithm development for atmospheric modeling).
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