knotzen

Here's my family at our reunion last summer.

Ouch! The things we do for "fun." I'm glad it wasn't worse.

There's that reading comprehension thing again.

Actually, Oly, I've always pictured you looking more like this:

How come my darn pictures keep turning into Xs?!??! Man, I hate that!

Wow! You look amazingly like that guy in the movies...what's his name?

Is that you?

I'd bet $20 all three avatars have the same IP address. Besides which, if he really were homeless, he wouldn't have a computer; he'd have to be using a library computer or somethin' (and thus, constantly changing IP addresses).

What, man-boobs?

This thread .

Likewise, I may get some abuse for saying I really, really, really dislike my McHale pack. I bought it in the early 90s, so maybe Dan McHale has changed the design by now, but I paid top dollar for that pack, and have used it only a handful of times. It has a pouch on the bottom for your sleeping bag, etc., but if that pouch isn't full, the main, top pouch sags (i.e., the bottom pouch has to be full to support the top pouch). Silly. Because when you're setting up your tent, you'll likely remove your sleeping bag, and then the top pouch, with everything else, flops around. And it's very difficult to fill the bottom pouch if you've got anything in the top pouch. And then, it's very narrow and tall, so that when it's full, you can't move your had back more than about an inch without hitting the pack. Makes it very difficult to check out routes, trees, the sky, scenery, anything. Most annoying. The quality of the gear isn't crappy; just the design. An expensive mistake, my buying that pack. Anybody want to buy a snazzy McHale pack? Hardly used.

I do try to be helpful. Thank you for recognizing that, Foraker. Obliged.

But it was Squidly! See, right here: "It was good for me. Did you summit?" I merely clarified his innuendo.

Here we are again, drifting from climbing to sexual innuendo. Coincidence? I think not.

I think you mean "peak."

No. But the whiskey sure worked well.

I always get people asking me if I reached the summit. Then I have to go into this long story about how I was talking on my cell to my mother's step-sister's cousin's former best friend from high school, tripped over the dog, hit my head on the doorknob, and now have a hangover from drinking whiskey to kill the pain, and that's why I didn't make the summit. Arggh. Wish they would just let me enjoy being out there and not ask if I made the summit.

And I hereby change my name from knotzen to notzen, to reflect my actual climbing style ("Fuck!" "I'm SOOO thirsty!" "Fuck!" "Aaaaagh!"). But it was a good day. A beautiful setting to swear in, and it was cool to meet some fellow cc.comers.

Watch out You might get what you’re after Cool babies Strange but not a stranger I’m an ordinary guy Burning down the house Hold tight wait till the party’s over Hold tight we’re in for nasty weather There has got to be a way Burning down the house Here’s your ticket pack your bag: time for jumpin’ overboard The transportation is here Close enough but not too far, maybe you know where you are Fightin’ fire with fire All wet Hey you might need a raincoat Shakedown Dreams walking in broad daylight Three hun-dred six-ty five de-grees Burning down the house

And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack And you may find yourself in another part of the world And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful Wife And you may ask yourself-well...how did I get here? Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down Letting the days go by/water flowing underground Into the blue again/after the money’s gone Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground. And you may ask yourself How do I work this? And you may ask yourself Where is that large automobile? And you may tell yourself This is not my beautiful house! And you may tell yourself This is not my beautiful wife!

After you get what you want, you don't want it. If I gave you the moon you'd grow tired of it soon You're like a baby. You want what you want when you want it. But after you are presented with what you want you're discontented. You're always wishing and wanting for something When you get what you want you don't want what you get And though I sit upon your knee you'll grow tired of me 'Cuz after you get what you want you don't want what you wanted at all. Changeable, you got a changeable nature always, always changing your mind there's a longing in your eye hard to satisfy and here's the reason why...

I wanna be loved by you, Nobody else but you. Pooh-pooh-bee-doo!

Shit bitches? Ow, that would hurt. Especially if the feet get stuck on the way out.

in the fire....