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You'd bitter not ask, you'll pith them off.

Truer words were never spoken.

A billion. I'm pretty sure GSI's got ya covered on that. DP's been a big presence at the show for years now, oddly he was absent this time around. It was Timmy O'neill, every day, all the time. I especially enjoyed when Jim Donini was letting TO dry hump him on stage at the climbing movie thing.

Went to Salt Lake Shitty. Next weekend=Ihhcicle. Off trail high lakes await....

I'm already aware of the Israel problem. Can I go in a different line?

I had a hard time getting to SLC with the security thing messing up Sea-Tac as it did, but finally made it down there. Anyone see anything interesting? I saw Crackers, he and I went to a party and dinner. I saw Murray, but we were running off in different directions. Thinker and I had b'fast and then he took me to the airport today. Thanks, always good to see you, Thinker. Good weekend,wish I'd had more time to look around. The airport thing on Thurday caused me to miss seven meetings that first day, and it was tough to make that up. People missed meetings right and left due to some rearranging of booths, the new immense size of the Salt Palace, and a vexing new booth numbering system. Good: lots of companies getting more green technologies going and the use of recycled materials are way up. Bad: lots of new innovations from the last couple of seasons being rehashed, mostly to unimpressive results.

Malaysia is worthless also. Never go there.

That pizza place is YUM. I et there after four days in the White Clouds week before last. Idaho rawks!!

Ed Miller perished in an accident on Formidable yesterday morning. No one on nwhikers is certain whether or not he posted over here, but it seems right to pass on the information. There is a thread on the accident here. He posted on the hiking site as "Edd". He will be missed.

I'll be there.

Check fire conditions. I was there a few days ago and stuff was on fire then.

Leary Way, where the laundromat used to be in Fremont. I dibs the seat next to Puget.

Might be because ropes are made from petroleum products?

How come image posting never works for me?

Can we go somewhere where we can sit outside?

Murray, I think we should discuss this vital matter over dinner. You going to be in Utah in a couple of weeks?

I just got back from Idaho, and at least there, the fiddies couldn't get enough ANTS. They went totally bonkers for them.

I just looked in the regs and I don't see any special rules for the Enchantments, meaning theoretically bait and treble hooks are ok. That said, if you have started fly fishing, what's the point of returning to the dark side of gear chucking? If getting deep in the water is the issue and you only have a floating line, why not tie on an extra-long tippet and put a piece of split shot on?

Don't do it.

I had a brief visit tonight. He is in rehab (PT/OT) until 4:30 every day as far as I can tell. I asked him if he was tired, he said no, but I think he was a little bit. He's in pretty good spirits for a guy who's been in the hospital as long as he has.

the latest

Kurt's mom called me today. He will be starting rehab today or tomorrow. He will still be in the hospital, but they will having re-learning to do things. I don't really know what all of this means yet, but it's a big step. EDIT: They moved him into another room today. His rehab schedule is posted on the whiteboard, looks like he will be pretty busy during the day.

The painting is almost done, and it came out a lot better than I'd feared it might.

So we'll take that as a no from the Chilliwack contingent.

A friend of mine bought a couple of paintings from me some years back. Her house caught on fire and the paintings were irretrieveably damaged by the smoke. I offered to make her some new paintings like the old ones. I finally got around to starting one of them today. The destroyed works were from 2001. I've painted a lot since then, and my style and skill have developed. In some ways, this has been harder than I thought--even though I painted the originals, it almost doesn't seem like it, I guess just because of the passage of time. On the other hand, I'm a better painter now, so skill is taking over where emotion left off. I'm just blabbering here while I'm waiting for paint to dry, but I wonder if anyone else has experienced something similar in making art or doing something else......