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ericb

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  1. Oh man....to make matters worse, one of the guys was hosting a wake at his house when it happened....they finish up some light appetizers upstairs and tell all the guests to go downstairs to watch a video/slideshow he had put together about the deceased.....let's just say it's a good thing they ate before going downstairs

  2. True Confessions....

     

    FWIW - we looked at two houses in Ballard before we bought our townhouse, and they were 30% more expensive than our TH and being circa 1900's, we were worried that there could be major unanticipated expenses coming down the road. Truth-be-told, I'd live in Ballard if we could afford it. However, our deck looks over a wetland/bird sanctuary with Glacier and Baker visible in the distance and our development backs up to the Cougar Mountain Wilderness, there's about 500' of paved roads between our place and access to endless miles of of great running trails (Tiger Mountain etc.)

     

    My wife and I lived in separate states for our entire dating relationship, so we decided we wanted to spend the weekend during our first couple years of marriage doing something other than working on the yard, or upgrading heinous floor/wall/counters coverings. No SUV's here.....We both drive Civics - she a 94 and I a 97.

     

    As far as living in an older house, I have two friends whose basements filled with Poo in the last year....one in Greenlake, and one in Magnolia due to collapsed sewer lines....so choose your sword I guess - I don't like SUVs, or the lack of diversity that comes in the suburbs, but pretty happy about the fact that I've done nothing but change lightbulbs and a furnace filter over the last 2 years.

  3. Just sounds like a lot of yardwork to me.....and a lot of running to catch those sheep - keeps you in shape for climbing I guess. There's a photo earlier in the post that you might enjoy in the event you aren't up for the round-up this evening.

  4. There are other differences.....My friends that live in circa 1910 homes in Ballard spend ~ 5K - 10K per year on things like new wiring, new roofs, new water pipes, siphoning up poo out of their basements when the clay sewer pipe collapses between their foundation and the main in the street....I spend my money on gear smile.gif

  5. Gotcha.....and what exactly have you seen in my posts would lead you to believe I'm a conformist?

     

    If I were a conformist, I'd limit my discussion on CC.com to poop, sex acts involving poop, vaginas (their juices, their uses), my junk, things I like to do with my junk, Mos_Chillin's lack of junk....etc.

  6. No one ever called them impoverished and underrepresented, so your sarcasm seems to be misplaced - why are you so angry??? Do you really live in Peshastin???....is that why you are so angry???....are you currently unemployed???....is that why you have so much time to troll this site???

  7. I've rapped on an 8mm Mammut doubled through a reverso....VERY cafefully....I think 8 is the bottom limit for the Reverso according to their literature. Next time I will use my glove....it was VERY fast. I spent so much time worrying about losing control I perfectly positioned the rope in a crack where it got stuck upon pulling. Good times

  8. 57 kids would hardly be considered prosperity in this crowd. I've observed amongst my friends that climbing coupons per summer are inversely proportional to number of children.

  9. Dude...I'm a conservative religious guy whose working up to leading 5.7/5.8 trad....shouldn't be a surprise that I'm sticking to piggy-backing on inside jokes today....even when someone managed to blame George Bush for their diarrhea

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