iain Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 a great weekend of skiing! can you believe it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
specialed Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 Who cares what you losers had for breakfast and shit. Get a life. Â Just kidding. Â Doesn't sound like you're havin much fun in Africa Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj001f Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 a great weekend of skiing! can you believe it? No. You were skiing on Hood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squid Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 I had hernia repair surgery. The cool thing is that they did all of it through my belly button, now my navel gazing has taken on a whole new aspect. Â I've discovered a deep and meaningful fondness of oxycodone. Â what was I talking about? Â Oh, yeah, this is my self-pitying-wallow post. Â The surgery was on Thursday, and I didn't realize until Sunday that the docs had shaved my pubes. I've got a Brazilian!! The flesh above it is now soft and squishy and deep purple. Is that sexy, or is that just the oxycodone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric8 Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 The best is reading about how your boss got his pubs shaved while on drugs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWolfe Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 ...and your boss hooked on synthetic heroin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbw1966 Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 Friday night: learned that I had a busted water pipe leading from the meter to the house. Spent hours hunting for a plumber who would work on Super Bowl Weekend. Â Saturday: dug a new trench for new water main; Â Sunday: complete trench, lay pipe, backfill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 I know how that job goes, having done it myself. The hard part is going under sidewalks and foundations. It probably wouldn't be considered fun by most people, especially as an alternative to drinking beer and eating nachos on Super Bowl Sunday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbw1966 Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 Actually, a neighbor clued me into a nearly effortless way of getting under sidwalks. You take some PVC, cap it with a cap that has a very small hole in it, then glue a component on the end that will screw on a garden hose. You have a self-made water pic that drills under sidewalks like butter. The PVC section I used was 8' long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 Actually, that's how I did it. Learned that trick from my father. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmace Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 Sunday: lay pipe, backfill. Â sounds like a good sunday!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COL._Von_Spanker Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 (edited) Index! Where was everyone? Â Bigwalling doing what he does best: Â Edited February 7, 2005 by COL._Von_Spanker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glacier Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 fri night: took sweety out for dinner. No loathing to be found. sat: took sweety to airport at the ass-crack of dawn, went back to sleep, got up and cleaned house and ran errands, bought food for Chinese New Years party on Sunday, go for a run and wallowed in self loathing while pulling on plastic. sat night: learned at last minute that Chinese New years party postponed due to illness, make calls for climbing or skiing partner, but there is going to be some sporting event on that people watch, drank a half bottle of wine while wallowing in self loathing sun: did taxes, which lead to more wallowing in self loathing, pulled on plastic, made meatloaf for comfort food and drank remaining wine and watched '24-Hour Party People' (pretty good movie on 80's new wave scene in Manchester) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurthicks Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 sat: drove to the Wallowas, hiked up to the bench below the NF of Chief Joe, camped. played in the snow, went to bed. Sunday: played about in the meager snowpack some more and hiked out. got back just in time for the superbowl parties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken4ord Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 Yeah SpecialEd and Minx life is rough here. Yesterday I went mountain biking for about 2 hours and then slept all day long. Later that evening I went out for Indian food and we watched Meet the Parents. It has been fun, but that may change soon, I got a job. So I am going to be like the rest of you, working on the weekdays and playing on the weekend. It is only a contract so come July, I free to travel and climb. The job will involve travel to So. Africa, Tanzania, and Kenya, I'll make sure to bring my climbing gear when I go to those areas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squid Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 pictures, ken! Send pics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpinfox Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 Yeah SpecialEd and Minx life is rough here. Yesterday I went mountain biking for about 2 hours and then slept all day long. Later that evening I went out for Indian food and we watched Meet the Parents. It has been fun, but that may change soon, I got a job. So I am going to be like the rest of you, working on the weekdays and playing on the weekend. It is only a contract so come July, I free to travel and climb. The job will involve travel to So. Africa, Tanzania, and Kenya, I'll make sure to bring my climbing gear when I go to those areas. Â What kinda job did you get? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 Monkeying around with gorillas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken4ord Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 No Dru, not yet. I will be working as a consultant helping setting up a new lab here in Kigali. The lab will be used for a microbicide ointment clinical trial and they need a to have it GLP and GCP qualified. If things go well with this site they are considering a fulltime position doing audits at other locations, in South Africa, Kenya and Tanzania. We'll see though. Â Oh here is a pic from the other day of climbing. This is Sive a new climbing buddy. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
specialed Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 Looks like some nice vegetation filled gashes to thrutch up. Â Shit man, sounds like everything is working out awesome. What an adventurous and unique situation you got So, what do the locals think about you cruising by on your tricked-out bike? Â Hey, if that's Sive who is climbing, you should give her phone number Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Fly all the way to Africa to climb a roadcut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaphappy Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 shit needs some bolts... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 who would bolt a boulder problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken4ord Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Bolts really would work there for one the local would just spend hours chipping away at it, even if they were glue-ins. They have already managed to pull most of the pins that were used for TR anchors. One thing I was thing of was those removeable bolt thingys. I don't want to invest too much time there, there are other places to go. Â As the bike they trip out on it since the only thing they have around here is 3 speeds with steel rims, push lever brakes, that weigh more than my free-ride bike. The other day I was doing some small drops 2-3 foot and they definitely tripped on that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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