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yes, yes please. Being married, I still manage to eat all I can whenever I can, but I just never seem to get full. You two offering?

As with ken4ord and DeC on this one... Whole roasted elephant garlic cloves on crostini Other usual suspects... Turkey Refried beans Burger King onion rings (oh GAWD, the stench! And the humidity in the room goes up like 75% ) Pork loin, chops, or roast Broccoli Cabbage Sauerkraut Crab meat I'll come up with more after refresh testing...

Don't worry, kid. I was the exact same way 25 years ago or so. That will all change for you in about 10 to 15 years or so... Better live it up now while you can. Just for the record, I didn't see this thread when it first came up, so I didn't sign up for the contest. However, in the last six weeks, I've lost 7 pounds just by not eating to the point of feeling stuffed all the time (from 192 down to 185, and still dropping). Just this week, I got back into a belt (a 34) that I haven't been able to wear since around 9/11 - and the buckle is in the middle hole!!!!1 I haven't done any more exercise/activity than before, haven't change what I eat, and I still have my "glass o' red" every night. It just goes to show, as Couloir and others pointed out a few pages back, it's simply a matter of "calories in / calories out." Get less in, you lose weight. Get less out, you gain weight. Simple math.

It's easier to do it the other way around.

I'm not trying to tell how you should progress, but I can say that if you ditch the jammies now, you'll get hard core a lot faster. Things like jammies lead to a false sense of security (kinda like too much TR-ing before you jump on the sharp end) and it will become more and more difficult to chuck those crutches as time goes on. My $0.02

AR- You're not alone in your thinking. Every year or two, a few n00b leaders fall out of those climbs down on the far left end and break an ankle or something worse. It's not uncommon to hear your rant. But what I wanna know is, why do you even own a set of hand jammies? WTF?

October 23, 2028. My money's on this guy... Sheeeeeeeeeeit, I've got 20 more years. w00t! w00t! PARTY!!!!!1

Every time I read that, I burn about 35 calories. calorie calculator

I can't wait to read what you write about that. Neither can I. I'll need a few minutes to recoup, though...

Ahhhhhhhhh, I'm back. I feel sooooooooo much better now. So, what did I miss?

That reminds me, I need to go back and read that again... like, right now!

you typed that with one hand, didn't you?

I'm going off what people told me that I said and did at the time. Most of it was not pretty, to be sure. But then again, they could all be double dog liars, too, eh?

I'm not sure I would go so far as to say I've given it up, but it has been a very long time, and I have almost zero iterest in reliving the past. It's a funny thing to have done which can make for some good stories, but I would never recommend it to somebody as a must do. I'm sure I'm past all that shite now. The consequences of getting busted, what with a family, home, and professional career and all that rot now, make contemplating returning to those care-free, drug-induced days of yore totally untenable. What was left in my youth 25+ years ago is best left there today. Still, as you opined, it is great to have those cherished memories and stories to relive and tell to those coming of age now. "This one time, at a bluegrass festival..."

wow you are lucky you are anything at all Peeps overrate acid. It's not that bad. However, that being said, anyone ever try to change a flat tire immediately after an outdoor Frampton concert while severely trippin' on mushrooms? Every single damn muthafuggin' concert-goer has a fucking opinion about how to change your own goddamn flat tire. Second warning: Never never never never go to a BMX event at the Astrodome while trippin' on acid while your "friends" (that have your ticket with THEM) are already inside waiting for you to show up. It doesn't work well with the turnstile staff to try to bribe your way in. Third warning. Oh nevermind... I'm just glad I finally gave all that fucked up shit up. sickie

OK, DeC, you touched on a new game I play around the house with our cat, Phydeaux. Although he's not fat by any stretch, he did recently have to have an eye removed. So now the game is to wait until he's really groggy or has just fallen asleep, sneak up on his blind side, and scare the crap outta him. Great fun! Here he is on the back patio shortly after the stitches were removed.

Yowzerz, do you write for a living? I felt all tingly inside after reading that, but now I'm feeling a little tired all of a sudden... 8D

A hearty second on Toast's recommendation for the Fasulo book. I found it slightly difficult to pair up the text with the illustrations at first, too (sitting in my La-Z-Boy after midnight with a glass of fine Cab). But after "taking it to the streets" so to speak, I found that the descriptions and illustrations make for stellar reference material. Moral: Read and practice completely sober (unless you're not going to climb that way).

chirp- I like the T-shirt, particularly... Have you had your Powdermilk biscuits today?

Agreed, tvash. It is totally within the landlord's control to not support known criminal activity upon or within his properties. dtw: Can you say "aiding and abetting" a criminal?? Although I'm a staunch supporter of low-litigation and personal responsibility, I have to say that you're off the mark on this one.

Man, if peeps on this board think Vantage is loose and chossy, you ain't seen nuthin' yet! I can't even imagine doing a tech route on Kloochman's (at my age) any more, although I did hike by boy up the trade route on the SW side a couple years ago (in a kid carrier when he was two years old or so). Good thing he couldn't talk very well back then, cuz my wife would've killed me if she knew what I was doing with him that day. I guess if you're gonna go, bring a helmet. As a matter of fact, bring two helmets, cuz you're gonna need to shit in one of them. That entire place is a freaking bowling alley, all of it. DANGER!!!1 WARNING, WILL ROBINSON!!!1

Thanks for the beta, Craig. The guidebook, and talking firsthand with Joe, scared me away from the upper pitches.

Well, technically, Kloochman Rock is behind you as you ascend Goose Egg's eastern wall, so you wouldn't really see Kloochman's unless you turned to look over your left shoulder. Good on ya for salvaging the weekend, Craig. I've only done the first three pitches, but I enjoyed that much of it. Nice to see ya topped out. How loose are things after Pitch 3?

He was an awesomely great guy, Kurt. The very best. People like him don't deserve to die like that. And certainly not while leaving a wonderful woman and a new kid behind. He's dead and there's two loozerz walking free. That just ain't fair, and it just ain't right.