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I wonder how soaking raspberries in Vodka or gin would go? Made some hot pepper vodka once for bloody mary's :) Quite Tasty!

Anyone who's seen the picture of you in the red dress is very aware of that

It is Sad!! But theres too damn many of them! We tried to get friends to pick them, but they either don't believe us that they can have as many as they can pick or they're just lazy

Are you makin fun of me

Vodka shall not touch my martini. It is a sin. A proper martini must be gin, vermouth is optional, as is being dirty. Has anyone else tried the Cascade Distillery Gin? Pretty damn good. Very nice flavor, and a little more pungent than Sapphire. Though I haven't tried Ten yet.

mmmmmm, going to have to stop at the store on the way home. Fingers of Fury huh? Is that reserved for people on your good side or your bad side?

Yes please. Probably leaning towards full-bodied, don't know that i could recognize peaty or smoky yet, but always willing to try. How about 1 of each?

Glenfiddich is very popular, but my recollection of it is that it's not much better than a good 12-year old blended. There's a lot of better single malts out there. Which one depends on taste (from lighter body ones with almost no peatiness or smokiness to hardcore Islay's). Any good recommendations for a novice?

mmmmmmm, Mr's Selkirk has put up something like 14 or 20 pints of raspberry freezer jam this summer I don't think she believe me when I told her that no one I've ever known has been able to actually pick all their ripe raspberries for a patch of any reasonable size. At one point I think we picked 4 or 5 gallons in 1 week! Though this past week we've been bad and some have gone bad on the vine

just finished a bottle glen fiddich I think? 12 year old something or other. I have no idea what the differences between good whiskeys are, but it sure was tasty goin down

personally, I prefer good whiskey.

Mascular

some mexicanish sandwhich - bread + warm mushed black beans + cilantro + avocado slices + sautéed ham and tomato slices = Pretty damn yummy. Especially if you have a beer, which negates all those pesky healthy aspects.

So shorten the arms and limit the extension. I use this for quite a few top rope anchors while cragging, and just throw and overhand in the arms to limit extension in the case of failure. Max extension would be 8 or 10 inches, but maintains the equalization through a reasonable range. Besides, while it might be a "shock load" the only place I've ever really used this anchor is on Sport routes, at which point it's no like your taking a static factor 2 onto the anchor, but most likely a dynamic top rope fall.

mmmmmm. Had black bean Torta's. healthy but so damn tasty!!!!

mmmmmmm, every day is a good day for italian!

Mostly the poster child for stubborn streaks coming in from every branch of my family. I have rarely met anyone who is as stubborn or bull headed as 95% of my family, and I've never met anyone who was more stubborn or driven then a few select members of my family.

ooooh, I hope Chorizo and Salame pooed on your pillow for that

That I'm neither priviliged, nor born into money, and both comments were intended to imply that my opinion or reasoning is less than valid. The appeal to the "authority" of someone else who's pulled themselves up by there own bootstraps is also pointless. It lends no more credence to Savage's opinions than it does my own.

In that case can you come over and walk Wonder Dog when you hook up with Archie? We pay well in gallons of raspberries and anything else you'd like out of the garden, Oh and all the bamboo you can use!

My dad is a rag's to upper middle class person. He was the son of an abusive father with rage issues who worked at tire factory in Pennsylvania and a stay at home mom. He was lucky to get C's in highschool. My great grandfather, grandfather (when he was 8 or 9) and grandmother (all of whom I've known well as my Great grandfather only passed away 2 years ago) worked for the mob running numbers and booze during prohibition, then was a teamster for a while during the 40's and 50's and hustled golf into 50's. One of his favorite sayings was that "A dago's as good as a * any day". He wasn't being facetious. Hell, I remember living in a house in Chicago that only had 3 walls, and lived in downtown Oakland during the late 70's. We were poor enough one year we had a construction paper christmas tree, and the weekly treat for my parents was to go the payphone down the street to call home. I wasn't born into money. I'm exactly 1 generation removed from poverty, and 2 generations removed from the mob, and 3 generations removed from dirty Italian immigrants changing the spellings of their name to fit in better. My grandfather pulled himself up by his bootstraps, as did my father. I have a reasonable perspective, and my fathers is even better.

Was talking to my Dad the other day (assistant superindenant, working closely with the WASL, used to be a principal at a very poor elementary school in Spokane where he managed to improve reading and math scores from around 30% to close to 90% in the space of 2 years, yada, yada, yada.... any way, lots and lots of experience dealing with kids from poor families, and lots of time spent looking at how to improve scores and improve kids chances of escaping the poverty cycle) Anyways, a study a few years ago looked at a whole bunch of possible predictors of whether a kid would end up going to college/be gainfully employed/escape the drugs/crime/poverty cycle was? Grades, family life, divorce, single parents, etc, etc, etc, etc...... So any guesses what the best predictor was with nearly a 90% accuracy rate? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The opinion of they're 5th grade teacher. So for most kids, by grade 5, they are already on the path that they will be on for the rest of their life. How can you even be responsible for the decisions that affect the rest of your life at that age? That doesn't negate personal responsibility, and some people do manage to break the cycles anyway, but they're few and far between. One big mistake I see made over and over is to assume that you are average and project yourself into the shoes of other people and say you could do better. Very few people I've met in the Seattle area, and even fewer climbers I've met are anyone I would consider in "average", or typically representative of "poor" people (measured in schools by the percent of kids that receive free or reduced lunch). An interesting example is one of the Hell's Angels that was recently convicted in Seattle. Turns out he has a daughter, and is one of the most caring, active parents in his school district. He's still committed murder, and done some nasty shit, but he's also doing everything he can to be a good parent. The problem is that he joined the gang 25 years ago, did some stupid nasty stuff, and now he's stuck. He can be a Hells Angel and try to be a good father. Or he can not be a Hells Angel and die. As a single parent, how does that affect his daughter, and her chances of getting out of the same cycle? please. people make choices and then blame "fate", "the system" or the "man", but the fact is, they make choices. repeatedly. Your right, people do make choices all the time. The question is weather they make a conscious choice or an unconscious one, and weight that with the answer they are predisposed to come up with. And of course whether or not they make a bad enough choice before they manage to pull their head out and permanently screw themselves. It's still their choice. Looking at individual paths it's easy to point out turning points and bad choices, but when enough people are making the same choices over and over again, even though they may be clearly bad to the rest of us, does it speak to simple laziness, or something else?

So what do you use to beat your meat? Hammer, meat tenderizer, single tail? Do tell

He's entitled to his opinion. He's also a privileged, well paid, likely well educated, reasonably wealthy idiot with a narrow viewpoint.

Was talking to my Dad the other day (assistant superindenant, working closely with the WASL, used to be a principal at a very poor elementary school in Spokane where he managed to improve reading and math scores from around 30% to close to 90% in the space of 2 years, yada, yada, yada.... any way, lots and lots of experience dealing with kids from poor families, and lots of time spent looking at how to improve scores and improve kids chances of escaping the poverty cycle) Anyways, a study a few years ago looked at a whole bunch of possible predictors of whether a kid would end up going to college/be gainfully employed/escape the drugs/crime/poverty cycle was? Grades, family life, divorce, single parents, etc, etc, etc, etc...... So any guesses what the best predictor was with nearly a 90% accuracy rate? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The opinion of they're 5th grade teacher. So for most kids, by grade 5, they are already on the path that they will be on for the rest of their life. How can you even be responsible for the decisions that affect the rest of your life at that age? That doesn't negate personal responsibility, and some people do manage to break the cycles anyway, but they're few and far between. One big mistake I see made over and over is to assume that you are average and project yourself into the shoes of other people and say you could do better. Very few people I've met in the Seattle area, and even fewer climbers I've met are anyone I would consider in "average", or typically representative of "poor" people (measured in schools by the percent of kids that receive free or reduced lunch). An interesting example is one of the Hell's Angels that was recently convicted in Seattle. Turns out he has a daughter, and is one of the most caring, active parents in his school district. He's still committed murder, and done some nasty shit, but he's also doing everything he can to be a good parent. The problem is that he joined the gang 25 years ago, did some stupid nasty stuff, and now he's stuck. He can be a Hells Angel and try to be a good father. Or he can not be a Hells Angel and die. As a single parent, how does that affect his daughter, and her chances of getting out of the same cycle?