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A beautiful obit. My thoughts go with you and your family and I wish you the best during these trying times.

Yes, I see that you are brimming with concern. My mistake.

Dude, you suck.

steepandcheap.com is selling a helmet today (11/15/06) which they advertise as: You might take a look and see if this serves your purposes.

One common method is to set up your new drive as a slave and format/partition it. Copy your files to a partition on this new disk, and then switch it to master, reboot on the new disk and reinstall windows and your apps. Imaging software comes in real handy in these circumstances. But what makes you think you need a new harddrive? Did you replace the board and memory with faster hardware, or just new versions of the same thing? I would recommend running a scandisk/defrag on the existing drive first. You should also pop some more memory into the board. I would have done this first. You should aim for a gig. You're running XP, right?

Try to do 20-30 minutes. If you keep missing a step, you either need more practice, or need to change your footwork. If you keep doing the same jump the whole time, your muscles will fatigue and you are more likely to miss a step. I change my footwork every couple minutes to prevent this. Also, try playing music with about 120-130 beats-per-minute while skipping. This helps keep your pace up.

That's worksafe.

Rockin. Thanks!

I'm cursed with cold hands, and now that it's getting cooler, I find myself climbing a lot with numb fingers. I hate numb fingers! I'm looking for a good glove that can handle light/moderate technical rock. Is there such a thing? Someone recommended OR's Alibi glove -- said it was real sticky. Any advice? Or should I just suck it up? TIA

Is it safe to use a flemish bend to join cord/rope? Someone admonished me the other day for using it. I was under the impression that it was safe, and I sometimes use it instead of a double-fisherman's because I find it easier to untie after loading. This is the first I've heard that this is unsafe. Now, I do know better than to use a flat-eight, and I thought perhaps he had simply confused the two. I tried to point out the difference, but he seemed pretty adamant. He said that the knot could spill under load. But I thought I'd ask around anyway. Is this guy smoking crack? TIA!

Your signature is especially germane to this conversation....

Fuck, that's so sad.

mmmm....Rudy's. Sounds like a great trip.

Gratz!

I was going to get a fuzzy monster outfit and throw on a leisure suit and go as the boogie-monster, but my wife says that's too dumb, even for me.

thanks for the great advice, guys. Cheers!

Should I loosen all my knots before a climb so that they can all "tighten"?

Check out Muralla Grande at Sandia. Good sport climbing at Enchanted Tower, not too far from ABQ. Hit up Rudy's for BBQ after climbing.

Don't they have Doctors and anti-malarial medication in Thailand?

Because I was just kidding, whereas you're serious. No offense, but I think you take this board too seriously. Relax, take some deep breaths and go climbing.

I know, cause they always make fun of my shorts over polypro.

Don't quote me.

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