Cheesecake for lunch... doesn't seem to be on the approved list of foods for any diet.

But I made a mean chocolate ganache espresso cheesecake for Heffe's birthday, an I brought leftovers to work, and I forgot my lunch at home. So... cheesecake it is!

And I am not sorry. Not a bit.

Oh, and Ed brought homemade ginger syrup to make coctails last night. And then left all the ginger-soaked-in-syrup at my place. So I am drying it to make candied ginger. But at the rate it is going, the ginger will be all eaten, before it candies. OMG, so good!

Seeing Banz's facebook status show he's lost what, 10 lbs in 2 months, makes me feel guilty. I know that I have way less extra weight to lose than he does, but I'm dreading trying to cut down 5-10lbs and I know it's going to take way longer.

Of course not - why should you be sorry? This is one of many questions you may ask yourself over the coming months and years. Here's another: "Why I cannot haz 5.12 now?" or "When did I become such a big fat fuck?"

Seeing Banz's facebook status show he's lost what, 10 lbs in 2 months, makes me feel guilty. I know that I have way less extra weight to lose than he does, but I'm dreading trying to cut down 5-10lbs and I know it's going to take way longer.

Cheesecake for lunch... doesn't seem to be on the approved list of foods for any diet.

But I made a mean chocolate ganache espresso cheesecake for Heffe's birthday, an I brought leftovers to work, and I forgot my lunch at home. So... cheesecake it is!

And I am not sorry. Not a bit.

Oh, and Ed brought homemade ginger syrup to make coctails last night. And then left all the ginger-soaked-in-syrup at my place. So I am drying it to make candied ginger. But at the rate it is going, the ginger will be all eaten, before it candies. OMG, so good!

mark it 55lbs for me. Sedentary jobs and asthma meds (steroids) blow

[climbing tawk]Also[/climbing tawk], did not train as much this winter as I did when I had access to the gym, but am really psyched on still doing the obscure tard lines.

Went out yesterday with Wagner (anti-semite!) on the headphone, and TR-soloed a REALLY cool line that I may put a bit more work into. If ya'll know the NRG, it's the blank orange face that is climber's left and facing the Honeymooner ladders; one corner/arete system right of Quinsana Durp. Mikey headpointed it as a 13a tard line last fall; it's really cool crimpy reachy climbing, crux is a rightward dyno from one crimp to another, protected by equalized ballnuts, thena big rest jug, then TONS of runout OneTwo to the top. Big fall potential, but no decking chances I don't think.

Gonna TR it quite a bit more, and it needs some winter munge scrubbed off it, but I'm pretty psyched, especially since I'm a kinda facetard gumby still.

mark it 55lbs for me. Sedentary jobs and asthma meds (steroids) blow

pictures of climbing are from actual cameras and not available yet as far as I know. Here's teh Flange Buttress (above teh Brit's head):

Second day solo Truh Ruhing the proj. Figured out the gear, I still need to get a blue slider nut, though. Did a lot of brushing and scrubbing, too. Rapped to the ground after tons of messing with moves and gear, and then managed to get the tredpoint. This kind of scares me, though, because now it means I have to do the route. The crux is still going to be hard, bad lockoff on a tiny crimp with no feet, and you have to slam in a red slider, THEN do a v7 dyno to another tiny crimp. Both of my hands have bleeding fingers right now.

Got to the top after the tredpoint, and found that I had totally core-shot my rope over a sharp edge. Not a big deal, it was an old rope, and none of the core strands broke, but was still a bit sketchy. I take it as the climbing gawds telling me to just sack up and lead the thing. That's gonna be scary.

Gneiss! Columnar basalt! Looks cool.

so much for whatever lessons you claimed to have learned from teh lispaul injury.

Australia report!

Well, the start of the Australia report; I'll probably just occasionally add days as I have time.

Flew out on a Friday night (myself, teh gf, 2xAgent, and LLL), got into Sydney on Sunday morning. Got our bags, did the customs/immigration bit. Discovered the Sydney->Hobart flight was not actually Qantas, but Jetstar instead, and had to pay $5.50/person to take the bus from the international terminal to the domestic terminal. Jetstar is somewhere between Spirit and Southwest for Australia. They noted that we could use the bathrooms free of charge.

Got into Hobart, picked up the klown kar, and drove back to teh Brit's place (with some of our baggage in the Brit's car) on the RONG side of the road. Many accidental windshield wipings ensued.

Six of us staying at teh brit's place for the weke (brit + wife, myself + gf, 2x, LLL). Wandered around Hobart, ate some seafood.

Next day we did some climbing at Mt. Wellington. Went to the Flange Buttress (not named after jak's bro The Flange, so far as I know). Warmed up on Neon God, pretty cool sport route. Crux was very thin move early on, after that it was all pretty reasonable mid-10 climbing, with the bolts getting more spaced towards the top. Then did Digitalis, a mostly carck-ish route with a thin traverse at the top out of the corner. Had to wait around on the P1 belay ledge for a bit because teh brit took forever to commit to the traverse (he and LLL had started up while we did Neon God). Followed that, then tried After Midnight. Onsighted the first half, but ran into some trouble at teh crux, with hard moves I couldn't figure out while potentially looking at a ledge fall. It was about time to get going anyway, so I tension traversed over to the anchors atop P1 of Pleasant Screams (described in the guide as "Tasmania's To Bolt or Not to Be"). Didn't have time to TR Pleasant Screams, but teh 2x cleaned up After Midnight. Headed back down, ate and drank. Teh GF was hanging out with teh Brit's wife during this time, checking out the Huon Valley, going to various sheep cheeseries and honey stores and what have you (apparently Tasmanian Leatherwood Honey is well known -- it turned out to be pretty tasty).

Second day solo Truh Ruhing the proj. Figured out the gear, I still need to get a blue slider nut, though. Did a lot of brushing and scrubbing, too. Rapped to the ground after tons of messing with moves and gear, and then managed to get the tredpoint. This kind of scares me, though, because now it means I have to do the route. The crux is still going to be hard, bad lockoff on a tiny crimp with no feet, and you have to slam in a red slider, THEN do a v7 dyno to another tiny crimp. Both of my hands have bleeding fingers right now.

Got to the top after the tredpoint, and found that I had totally core-shot my rope over a sharp edge. Not a big deal, it was an old rope, and none of the core strands broke, but was still a bit sketchy. I take it as the climbing gawds telling me to just sack up and lead the thing. That's gonna be scary.

With all of NRG at your disposal, your choice of line to work on is rather strange. But well, what else is new?

Second day solo Truh Ruhing the proj. Figured out the gear, I still need to get a blue slider nut, though. Did a lot of brushing and scrubbing, too. Rapped to the ground after tons of messing with moves and gear, and then managed to get the tredpoint. This kind of scares me, though, because now it means I have to do the route. The crux is still going to be hard, bad lockoff on a tiny crimp with no feet, and you have to slam in a red slider, THEN do a v7 dyno to another tiny crimp. Both of my hands have bleeding fingers right now.

Got to the top after the tredpoint, and found that I had totally core-shot my rope over a sharp edge. Not a big deal, it was an old rope, and none of the core strands broke, but was still a bit sketchy. I take it as the climbing gawds telling me to just sack up and lead the thing. That's gonna be scary.