chelle Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 Call me naive but not sure what you're proposing with the tape and bubble wrap Erik. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted February 17, 2003 Author Share Posted February 17, 2003 crafts day  make mommy a statue out of bubble wrap & duct tape left over from al-Qaeda-proofing the house Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelle Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 sounds cool. Martha Stewart could add this to her list of crafts for school holidays. Please post photos of finshed product. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toast Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 Col. Von Spanker picks me up at 5 AM Saturday with grand plans to slay Dragontail. We cross the pass and enter the drizzle zone. More drizzle. More drizzle. More drizzle. In Leavenworth, what do we find? You guessed it, drizzle. We abort, and the two of us fight dozing off on the drive home. Geoff's at the wheel, remember, so we get our dose of danger in as he tries to out doze me while driving. Â I wake up somewhere after the pass, and glaze over at Spanker. Some weird shit's on the radio, Polish opera or something. Spanker looks pissed, or at the very least, remorseful. I know what's going through his mind, cuz it's goin' through mine. We pussied out, didn't we? I speak up, and Spanker replies rhetorically, "what would a Hardman do?" A glimmer of sunshine peaks through and I think to myself, not pussy out. Â The two of us pull off at the Index espresso stand. You know the one, Bigfot lives there in a camping trailer. Well, actually, they have a honey bucket. They also have a pictorial relief map posted of the Central Cascades. It's 10:00 and a light bulb suddenly fizzles above our heads. We can conquer Index. Yeah, that's it, we got no maps, no guidebook, no beta. We're gonna FA this thing like they did in the old days. Â We pull into the Lake Serene parking lot and gear up. Spanker's in his plastics, and I'm strapping crampons onto my pack. The two of us have trekking poles. We're cascade climbers, goddammit. Just then, four Japanese tourists giggle and jaunt off ahead of us in jeans and tennis shoes. I'm so embarrassed. Â Colin and Mark suddenly pull into the lot. Colin, by the way, is a high school kid who's climbed more knarly peaks solo, car to car, than most on this board would dare to dream. He may still be an adolescent yout, but he's as hard as they come. Anyway, Colin and Mark, had also ventured out to Leavenworth with similar plans for the weekend and had hightailed it back to the Westside. They're here to get some elevation in on a quick trail run so as to make something of the day. The Colonel and I are relieved. We're not such pussies after all. Â Colin and Mark pass us. That's not surprising. What is, is that we never pass the Japanese tourists. You know, the one's in jeans, giggling in soft pastels. What the fuck? Spanker and I screamed up that trail at a pretty quick clip. We shoulda passed them easily. We saw no sign of them till we got to the lake. Those fuckers beat us there. I can't believe it. We are such pussies. Â It's 11:20 now, and it's apparent there's no chance of taking the peak in daylight. It was a pipe dream, anyway. The two of us sulk back down the hill. The Japanese tourists, jaunt past us. I'm so embarrassed. I guess I'm resigned to be a pussy. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 ehmmic said: sounds cool. Martha Stewart could add this to her list of crafts for school holidays. Please post photos of finshed product. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fern Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 iain you crack my shit up. fine form today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PullinFool Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 Muffy_The_Wanker_Sprayer said: iain said: I also watched a quality canada goose porn movie down below the smith rock group  thats not possible.... Geese mate for life Now, THAT'S what I call endurance... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CascadeClimber Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 Before you all send out a party of ping-pong ball imprinted Mounties out on a SAR mission for me, I thought I'd let you know I'm back. Â It was incredibly difficult- the trail had mud in places, and there were several downed trees. Three times I had to exit the rut to pass parties bivouacking in the trail. The partly sunny weather was also menacing (I burn easily), and visibility near the summit was limited to only several miles. Â After 46 arduous minutes I reached the top, and seriously considered spending the night, as I was spent and worried about descending safely. Â The call of a half gallon of cookie-dough ice cream in the freezer overruled my better judgement, and after 35 sketchy minutes I was safely back at the car, though quite rattled from the whole experience. Â Now to complete my February day in the Cascades day, I'm going out to mow my lawn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allison Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 Friday: Valentine's Day. Â Saturday: Drive to the lovely community of Yacolt, WA. Discover Soobie is blowing oil at rate of 1Q/150 miles. Read book about granite whilst looking out window at E Fk of Lewis River. Â Sunday:Drive to PDX for case of motor oil. Limp Soobie back to Seattle. Â Work until 5AM. Â Monday: Laundry, hot soup, and a visit from my mechanic, who is now trying to figure out . Â Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toast Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 Hate to say it, but it's time to put ol'Soobie out to pasture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 Nahhh. She probably just blew a seal! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allison Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 It's ice cream, you dolt! Â And I doubt it's anything life-threatening...it's not totally dialed in yet from getting the new motor....still working out the tuning and whatnot. Anyway, it's only got 175K on it, and I'm bound and determined to wring every last mile out of this car!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 apparently cases of motor oil are cheaper south of the Columbia? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted February 17, 2003 Author Share Posted February 17, 2003 allison is a penguin now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allison Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 iain said: apparently cases of motor oil are cheaper south of the Columbia? Â Duh, everything is cheaper in OR, there's no sales tax! Â BTW as suspected, it was just a case of a hose that didn't have a hose clamp on it. All is well in North Ballard again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 I can breathe again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 Nice catch, Webster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 only a junkie such as yourself would be refreshing the page enough to pick up on that gaff and have time to get in a response Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chucK Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 Man are you thick!! Do you need everthing ekthplained to you?!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 AND get in a second EDIT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 chucK said: Man are you thick!! Do you need everthing ekthplained to you?!! heartless creep making fun of the verbally-disadvantaged. or are you quoting a shrubism in verbatim? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 Cooking container accusing the dedicated water-heating container of absorbing light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chucK Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 nerd trying too hard to be witty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 Dr_Flash_Amazing said: Cooking container accusing the dedicated water-heating container of absorbing light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 Just because you had a hard time figuring it out does not mean Dr. Flash Amazing had a hard time putting it together, buster. Â Anyway, who you calling a nerd, Mr. Addicted-to-cc.com? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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