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With the help of CJZ I put in a new sliding glass door and on my own I screwed down a bunch of deck boards.

Ya know, if you lived where you grew up you wouldn't have to travel long distances over the holidays.

Small tree specialist? Right now it's fruit tree pruning season. All the rest of us use orchard ladders, but you wouldn't need them. Hey Rudy.

Here's my take on the whole thing: Gary is an idiot savant, and he will never make the avarage wage of a miner which is $50 grand/year. All the rest of you would be so fucking fired if you worked for me. Do your bosses know how much time ya'll devote to this drivel.

So you're finally going to go over to your mom's house to get your gun.

He couldn't guess ladder.

Workers who've earned a living wage and supported families who are now forced to earn minimum wage if any wage at all is not a good thing.

I know that dumbshit, everything you learned, you learned from my pals (the real)JZ, and TFM. I observed them and learned how not to do things

Jeff H and I went up there on the 28th. The snow was good. There are still a few rocks out at the top of the Queen. We skied a couple lines on the King. One started down Brain Damage but then we traversed over a rib, and another went somewhere in the vicinity of pinball. There's any icy layer from the warm period that really stands out plus a lot of rocks to avoid. We still found some good powder though. It was lots of fun. I hope they get some more snow.

I learned most stuff about tree work in Washington dumbshit. There are a lot of ways to get dead doing tree work. It's hard to say whether the guy was a dumbass or just inattentive at the wrong time. CJZ does bring up a good story though involving a line clearing crew in Denver. You need to keep electric lines clear of trees and there are a few nationwide companies that specialize in it. It's a necessary job, but the work involves a lot of wacking instead of pruning trees, and the people who end up doing it are more likely to be a little shady. Anyway this friend of mine was working at a house in Denver and there was a line clearing crew down the street. At some point durring the day a couple guys from the line crew walk into the yard where my friend was working and ask him if he saw a dog run by. They said that the dog got hit on the head with a log they threw down and ran off. My friend hadn't seen the dog, so he watched the two guys walk away and call for this dog. The next day when my friend came to work he found out that what had happened was that someone on the line clearing crew threw a log down and hit this dog square on the head and killed it. They freaked out and decided to chip the dog. Eventually the dog's owner came out looking for the dog and they told the owner this story about the dog running off. To add weight to the story they walked around the neighborhood and pretended to look for the dog. Later on when they got back to the shop their boss started asking a lot of questions and eventually they had to come clean.

On Ascentionist, Fairweater said: Other than the obvious hummor I'd say Brian is fixin to have a meltdown for our amusement. Lets hope he doesn't wait too long.

I've seen Mike Layton, and he looks nothing like that.

You should burn it. It'll cut down on your heating bill.

Exactly, and he's very easy to troll on the subject.

What are you looking at?

Bummer Eric For stuff like that I'd talk to a doctor and or go see a physical therapist. As for chiropractors QUACK QUACK QUACK QUACK.

Once you start deleting dumb threads you'll find your job is never ending.

I've heard of it. It isn't right now, but it has the makings of overhyped extreme sport.

Maybe he doesn't need a wide mouth Nalgene.

Today my job was to turn a bunch of hazard trees in this new suburban developement into habitat snags. (cut the top out so it can't hit anything of value and girdle the base of the tree so it dies meanwhile birds live in it) There was this one tree that I'd had a bad feeling about. It was well over 100' tall and stone cold dead with conks growing out of it. The wind was blowing when we got there, so I looked at it for a bit and then decided to think about my plan while I worked on a tree 20' from it. While setting up to cut this other tree I heard this large crack sound. I turned around and watched as 80' of the top of the tree broke and fell away from where my helper and I were standing. Fortunately the tree fell away from the house too. I was eventually going to have to climb higher in the tree then the break point, so I feel pretty lucky. Plus I still got to charge the customer for turning his tree into a snag.

Fuck yeah, and only one more day of work this year.

Hmmm, I guess I'll just keep working on my deck.

Can you buy goat meat in Seattle? There's lots of lamb out there.

That's the other issue. If Gary doesn't have the balls to fight his TA's mano-a-mano then why should he sneak around posting about them behind their backs. At least invite them on so we can be entertianed by your geek fight.

When it comes down to it I bet Gary is pretty smart when it comes to his specific academic persuit. The problem is he thinks that his smarts in a narrow field imply that he's smart at lots of things. Sorry to break it to you, but you lack a lot of street smarts. It doesn't mean that you can't learn, but for now I recommend being more humble.