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Interesting. I guess this explains why I never became an alcoholic

This is what we did. It made sense because my carrying capacity was far greater than hers, and as you point out it, with a big kid, it wasn't long before she wasn't really carrying him anymore, anyway. I can't remember how old my son was on his first overnight, but I definitely remember it was before he started walking.

I'd smoke with him. I do a good Jesus schtick, I think he'd enjoy it.

That is so retarded. When I was growing up we would disappear for hours... and that was a welcome relief to the parents. Our society is so fearful of everything these days. When I was 10 or 11 my parents let me ride my dirt bike through the forest by myself all day. There were no cell phones, either. I'd crash that shit into trees and try to hide the bent levers from my father. Sometimes they weren't even home -- that was the best.

soon they will say taking your kids camping at all is too risky. Some lady called 911 once because my 9 yo daughter was playing by herself at the park ACROSS THE STREET. The cops showed up at my door while I was cooking dinner, with my daughter and the crazy woman who called 911 in tow.

wouldn't be suprised - a good cover story if you were freaking out over having kids and wanted to ditch them? sure, but can you really send people to prison for 12 years on that kind of speculation? And then say it's because they camped too close to a river? Weird, isn't it?

Actually, at least with bike racers, what happens is that your cardio gets so much work that eventually you just can't hit your calculated max HR anymore -- your leg muscles give out before your heart. Case in point, when I started racing, I would regularly hit my calculated max or slightly above -- like, over 200. But now that I'm more fit on a bike and my heart has gotten stronger, my resting HR has significantly lowered and I can't even get my HR over 180 -- now my legs are the limiter, not my heart. I'm sure I'm oversimplifying it. I read an article about this, something about how the stroke volume of a trained athlete increases (apparently the heart actually enlarges), increasing the cardiac output and thus lowering both resting HR and HR at exertion. I heard that Miguel Indurain's "max" HR was like 155. Sure, his heart was certainly capable of going higher, and his calculated max was certainly higher, but in practice that's as high as it ever needed to go. Or something.

12 years! Holy shit, seriously? There must be a big part of this story missing....

*everybody* gives me a hard time. I don't understand it, I look like a nice guy.

"What will you be doing during your stay in Canada?" "Your wife."

Just make sure you don't accidentally do any cardio on the stairs on the way to the hangboards, that would be counterproductive. Best take the elevator.

Canada may not be the best place to escape American fascism, after all.

after 1 hour @ 158? you guys must be out of shape. I'm no sports scientist so my eyes kind of glaze over when you start using big words but all I know is that if you can't use your muscles anymore after an hour of cardio something is wrong with you. Should cardio make you throw up? I've thrown up after intense workouts of several hours on the bike before but certainly those workouts were not aerobic.

Pearly Gates (in leavenworth) is a nice place to climb if the sun it too hot (because it's north-facing). I think a lot of the climbs there are two pitches, though. Index is awesome, and on the way to leavenworth, but you're going to run out of single-pitch easy/moderates there pretty quick. If your GF can handle two pitches and easy rapping, Great Northern Slab is a fun climb, and basically right off the parking lot.

This doesn't really sound like cardio 60 minutes @ 158 on the stairs made you throw up and use all of your glycogen? Maybe you're doing it wrong

forget vantage, even if it wasn't too warm. Like dan said, kinda sucks anyway. Leavenworth is way better and has tons of moderate single-pitch, though most of the moderate sport there will be way lower-angle than at vantage -- lots of slab. Plenty of cracks, too. Givler's Crack is technically two pitches, I guess, but super worth it and has a walk-off.

it sure doesn't help when you live in a political culture where the label of "flip-flopper" is instantly applied to anyone who dares to change their mind. STAY THE COURSE!!!!

Of course, buyer beware -- but keep in mind that just because it's used safety gear doesn't mean instant death. Haven't you ever driven a used car?

tell him he listens to too much Glenn Beck. The truth is far different. Only about 10% pay no federal taxes, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Meanwhile income for the top brackets have grown faster than every other bracket, while their taxes keep lowering -- more than any other tax bracket, btw. Meanwhile middle class wages are barely keeping up with inflation. Sure, the rich's income is SOARING, so of course they're paying even more taxes. That's hardly a good reason to give them tax cuts. It's a good article, make your friend read it. But it won't change his mind. People like that want to believe what they believe.

Oh man, I'm wasting my life. Nice shots

People aren't pissed because someone else is making an extraordinary amount of money, Minx, they're pissed because somebody else is making an extraordinary amount of money while using that money to lobby the government to further subsidize their profit-making endeavors at the expense of the underprivileged. People are pissed because the rich are getting richer than ever before and yet paying fewer taxes than ever before, and yet are militantly opposed to raising taxes back to normal, historical rates, even in the face of economic collapse -- and instead insist on cutting social programs, public education and infrastructure investments in order to continue to pay for their tax breaks. On top of that, they've convinced the government to give them money to make up for their bad investments by holding the world hostage and threatening to crash the stock market if they don't get their way. Things have swung so far in favor of the few and the fortunate that I'm surprised people still try to deny it. People who think this is just "jealousy of the rich" clearly just don't get it. hey Wookie, you should come over to my house and try to punch me in the face. That would be fun! I haven't been in a fist fight in a while.

I dunno, I also have health care but I'm still pissed off that the extreme rich have pulled off the world's biggest scam on the rest of us. World's biggest scam? Please explain. One thing many of us can do is refuse to work for a company where the execs make 20+ million and go to a smaller company where the disparity bettween the rank-and-file and the top brass is smaller. Sounds great! Are you hiring?

I dunno, I also have health care but I'm still pissed off that the extreme rich have pulled off the world's biggest scam on the rest of us.