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Hey Gary, is there a website that I could download Irfanview? I don't have any photo editing software, but have been thinking about it. So far all the editing I do is on the camera itself, basically downsizing images to send. I don't think I need anything fancy like photoshop. Also my camera has a "fine" setting, what is this used for? I have been thinking about buying an external hard drive for images that I have been collecting since I have been in Rwanda. Any suggestion on where to go to get one, who has the best prices?

Alright, alright back in Seattle on July 25th and there until August 25th. Of course I will be looking for some climbing partners during this time. So which ones of you is free during the week days for cragging at Index, day alpine outings, Darrington, what the hell I might even be up for exit choss but there better be a good for climbing crap. Da fine print: Because of obligations I probably won't be able to get out during 1-14. Also need to go climbing with someone with a car and rack, since I won't be traveling with either. In first week must be willing to cut the day short if I get and emergency call. The later part of August we won't have to worry about this. So who is up for climbing during this time?

I don't know why I continue to torture myself day after day with this shit. Nice job on a good day out on the big hill.

What a great loking climb. Another one I would love to do some day.

Any type of injury is dumb. By far though I have been injured more often mountain biking and downhilling. To many to count contusions that were severe enough that I could not sit or apply pressure (by severe I mean bigger than 12X12 inches in area), blown out knee, fractured vertabrea, should had stitches for a gouged out cut that oozed for months (gotta love not having insurance), and couple of time whacking the nuts real hard not landing right. Luckily I have never gotten my nuts slammed between the seat and rear tire while landing off a big jump, friends of mine have, poor bastards. The only other injuries that I have had not climbing are tore both hamstrings in terrain park and strain back lift a 50lb bag of onions while turning. Injuries just suck. I have definitely been much safer these days since my soul is no longer uncaged, and I really don't want to find out really how bad the health care is here. Plus I think I am getting older.

It was sort like that for me, with an extra step. 1. get girlfriend 2. marry her 3. she divorces you 4. soul is uncaged

And of course drinking a fine complimentary wine to the meals I make.

That is awesome!! That is route I am hoping I will do in my life time. I have always liked plastic shovel in the past because of the weight difference, but now I am having second thoughts about that knowing that a metal shovel can be used as a pot.

Yeah but it doesn't bother me. You can try that tool dip stuff that you can buy at hardware stores or just some good old rubber cement.

Don't come here, there is mosquito here too! These ones will kill ya, though. I am surprised I am not dead yet, holy shite I have just remembered I have forgotten to take my medication since I have been here, ah the sky is falling, the sky is falling!

Damn man, you still don't have a car?

When I first moved to Seattle I started having problem with my shoulders, mainly because I was unemployed and climbing a lot, essentially over use. I was having a hard time raising my arms above my head. I saw a doctor and was reccomended to give it a rest and do the elastice band exercises. I started with the elastic bands, and light dumbell to build up the smaller muscles. It didn't really have positive effect until I found a job.

This one above is pretty cool, like someone mention it has some Monet qualities to it. This is the first picture I have seen on this website that looks like this though. It doesn't have any semblance to pictures you have added you image processing editorials to. Now the image below looks airbrushed, I am expecting to see a damn unicorn or Care Bear some place in the image. It way too clean and perfect unlike the real world, and the subjet matter is B-O-R-I-N-G. There is little creativity here, all it is mastery of photoshop editing. Now with that said though, I do like some of the images you shoot, but it is not because they have all been cleaned up. It is because of the angle it is shot at and/or the subjet matter you have captured. As for offering your assistance, yes some might like that, but to do it in a trip report is social retardation. Yes at this point everyone knows that you are the king of Photoshopping or whatever program you use, I don't know and I don't really care. If anyone needs help or wants it they know how to get a hold of you. So stop stroking your photoshopping ego and spewing all over a trip report everytime you see a "bad" image.

Baked brie, asian pear slices and sliced almonds, served with baggette Butter grilled bagel with cream cheese and onion garlic jam Sushi (yellow tail, unagi, tuna) B&J Chubby Hubby (B&J's ultimate creation) Fried polenta slices topped with copanatta Hobnob ice cream sandwhichs (Hobnob's are a british cookie use a good vanilla ice cream like Hagen Daz or B&J) Soft shell crab crusted with saltines and pan fried in butter Almost anything with carmelized onions Pecan squares (same recipe as pecan pie though add chocolate chips and make thin like brownies) Pot brownies and herb pizza Ramen noodles cooked and drained add half the seasoning and some honey Risotto rice pudding with real vanilla bean and orange rind, cooked with whole milk Raw oysters with rice wine vinegar, black pepper and fresh tarragon vinagrette spagetti and meatball calzone I'm hungry now......

Shit I hate news like this. Hoping for a speedy recovery for you Kurt.

Hey got nothing better to do than to wish yourself a happy birthday. Damn. You should leave the house occassionally it might do you some good. Oh yeah by the way Happy B(utt pirate) Day!

Ya I play the same one over and over again and laugh my head off the whole way..it goes like this I fart you choke, this joke usually works best if your the driver with power window controls..it also has great side affects..like this weekend I dont get to drive.. Hell is also another great game..point all the vents at partner and turn up heat..but slowly so he doesnt notice..love that one..again may limit future driving time so double bonus Or you could buy a duc..I did and its awesome but im too afraid to leave it anywhere so no go for many crag trips.. My favorite game is to wait until my passengers are asleep then head to the nearest rumble strip, just as you start hitting it, scream out real loud. They'll think twice about not keeping you company on the drive.

Get the fuck out, you sound like some of the Euros I climb with here who whine. "Oh why do you want to go to Panga, it is a 3 hours drive, let go to Gitarama (a shitty chossy piece of shit thing they call a cliff, worse than X38)" Jeezus H Christ! I don't really care how long I have to drive as long I know I will get some climbing in. I guess I am lucky I don't need any more motivation than the route that is waiting for me. Maybe I am a little wacky, ok yeah I am, but we used 5 hours one way for a day of climbing at Willowby and return the same day 2am start, midnight return. All it is a alpine start that is pretty cush, instead of humping it up to the base of the route at 2am, your sitting in a nice comfy car, good tunes, good coffee and good company what else could you ask for, for an alpine start, it doesn't get any easier. Now what gets me back is the thoughts of nice warm shower, scotch, spliff, and comfy bed. I really don't like sleeping outside, yeah I can, but I would rather sleep in my bed. Also there is always something happening in town, even in this little machete yeilding sleepy town of Kigali that I call home, so there is always something else to look forward to a like a party, music or dinner with friends. How do I do it, easily. All I really desire more than most things it to climb and there is more that I want to do besides just climb. Now stop your whinning and don't even get me going on gas prices, shit I never knew how cheap gas was in the states. No wonder people don't drive around here.

I used to stick a rubber snakes in my gf dresser drawers. I knew she found it when I would hear a blood curdling scream. An after thought, maybe that is why she is not my gf anymore.... something to think about.

No shit seeing these pictures is driving me crazy. What the fuck are you trying to do to me. Count down is T=27days including a freakin' 30 hours of flying, then I got to get on some Index goodness. I don't know what I will do in the mean time, jeezus.

Argh being a pirate back in the day of lore was much easier. These days on the open sea are much trickier, what's pirate to do when up against a military-grade sonic weapon??? A true pirate woe.....

I spent a month in France last year. A whole month of good wines, cheeses, pates, breads and crossants, not to mention going out every night to nice resturants. I was starting to get tired and not appreciating the good food. By the end of the trip, McD's was looking very appealing. I think it comes down to if you don't know how bad food can get, then you really won't be able to appreciate how good it can get.

I was taking a chica out for some climbing and I thought it might be pretty cool to break out a bottle of wine at the end of the day and watch the light change out in the desert. Lucky for me I didn't get my shit together and make it to the store. Later when we were more involved I had told about my plan, but that I had failed. She told me it was a good thing because she would have never gone out with me a again. She wasn't looking for a guy who posts in Cafe' Sensitivioso, she just wanted to go climbing.

Damn Canadians are always pushing the illegal stuff across the border.