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donald949
Mar 22, 2010, 10:20 PM
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kachoong wrote: I love the tech tips on this website... makes me laugh every time. The Willy Stick site.
Oh yea, The Willy Stick.
Funny stuff.
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Lazlo
Mar 23, 2010, 1:00 AM
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: caughtinside wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday.  (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Yo burns... we didn't come out here to check things out, we came out here to check things off. I'll climb, but it won't be pretty. A bad day climbing, including cold hands or a twisted ankle, is better than a any day at the home and garden show.
I'll tell you what... After working through the weekend, I have found a new level of suckage and hate associated with Mondays.
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Lazlo
Mar 23, 2010, 1:04 AM
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Lazlo wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: caughtinside wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Yo burns... we didn't come out here to check things out, we came out here to check things off. I'll climb, but it won't be pretty. A bad day climbing, including cold hands or a twisted ankle, is better than a any day at the home and garden show. I'll tell you what... After working through the weekend, I have found a new level of suckage and hate associated with Mondays.
Oh, and I just got off work. Last pay check had 56 hours.
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Gmburns2000
Mar 23, 2010, 1:28 AM
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donald949 wrote: notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: Also, had a little miss hap. I Meat Bomb'd the Noobz. We get to the Big Rock, and its only the 2nd nice weekend since jan 1st, and the parking lot is full. Oh well. Hoping to work some stuff on the left, but its all roped up. I squizze in between two groups on the right and rope up. Climb past the first bolt, standing on a couple slopers, hands on slopers, and feet are sliding. I don't think the route is all that hard, maybe an 8, with the crux being where I'm at. But still. Quick dessicion move up to the good 3/4" edge, and clip the second bolt before I slide off. I don't make the edge. Peel and fall. Tim locks up catchs me no problem. Right ankle must have gotten twisted on the way down, as its tender. Right hand has a blister, yes the joys of slab. But otherwise Im fine. Tim is looking past me. I turn around. The young ladies from the local U are out climbing with their class.  Their eyes were that big. they were right behind me. And I just meat bombed them.  Other than the ankle, thats pretty funny. It's great to see all heads turn when somebody takes a good fall. I didn't take any terror inducers like that but a few falls did happen yesterday. I was climbing with the new guy and two weeks ago was the first time he had lead a route or belayed a lead, so this time round I took a fall so he could catch one and then he took two falls to get a feel for it. He seemed to dig it actually, which is a good sign. Yes, other than the ankle it was pretty funny. I've occasionally thought about taking practice leader falls. Say at an anchor, rather than a single piece. What do you do to set up practice falls? It would be good if I had some instinct when falling. Most of mine have not turned out well.
I've taken all of my practice falls in a gym, usually at least three bolts up.
I did tell Jen to take a practice fall once because she was petrified of what was above her. It was on a bolt and there was another bolt below that (plenty of distance if the top bolt busted). It worked and she sent pretty well.
I'm not sure I'd ever take a practice fall on gear, though. Too many variable that could go wrong.
Just remember, be a cat: bent arms and knees, go with the fall, and let your bendable limbs absorb the fall rather than be stiff and try to fight it.
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Gmburns2000
Mar 23, 2010, 1:30 AM
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kachoong wrote: I love the tech tips on this website... makes me laugh every time. The Willy Stick site.
#2 made me laugh pretty hard.
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Gmburns2000
Mar 23, 2010, 1:31 AM
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Lazlo wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: caughtinside wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: nice. at least your getting out. Ecop is making me climb in 40 degree weather on sunday. (blackmail sucks!). Actually, I'm going to tag along to see where this crag is and get a feel for the place. if it warms up, then i'll climb. if not, then i'll just hang and check the place out. Yo burns... we didn't come out here to check things out, we came out here to check things off. I'll climb, but it won't be pretty. A bad day climbing, including cold hands or a twisted ankle, is better than a any day at the home and garden show. I'll tell you what... After working through the weekend, I have found a new level of suckage and hate associated with Mondays.
what does that mean, you worked seven days straight?
sucks if that's the case.
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Gmburns2000
Mar 23, 2010, 1:33 AM
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fucking A. I can't stand it when I can't find a grammar solution.
In paragraph form (i.e. - not at the start of a letter), do I use "Mister Jones" or "Mr. Jones" and does it matter if there is a Mrs. Jones?
Strunk and White? Nothin'
Grammar Girl? Nuttin'
Woe is I? Packed in a box in NH.
Google search? gives me the history of Ms. vs. Mrs.
My asshole? Nada.
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Gmburns2000
Mar 23, 2010, 1:34 AM
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you should e-mail grammar girl.
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Gmburns2000
Mar 23, 2010, 1:34 AM
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I did! and all I got was a stinkin' form letter telling me that she probably won't answer my question, even though she hasn't already answered it in any of her articles.
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Gmburns2000
Mar 23, 2010, 1:35 AM
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dont you just hate that? it's like that time you e-mailed car talk and refreshed your e-mail 150 times the next hour to see if they had read it yet.
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Gmburns2000
Mar 23, 2010, 1:36 AM
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exactly! and those bastards never got back to me either (except, of course, with a standard e-mail telling me that they had recieved it and probably wouldn't e-mail me back).
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Gmburns2000
Mar 23, 2010, 1:36 AM
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yeah, but you gotta laugh at their chauffer's name.
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Gmburns2000
Mar 23, 2010, 1:37 AM
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the russian dude?
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Gmburns2000
Mar 23, 2010, 1:37 AM
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yeah, his name is Pikup Andropov.
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Gmburns2000
Mar 23, 2010, 1:39 AM
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almost as funny as their landowner, which is the law firm: Dewey, Cheatham & Howe
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Gmburns2000
Mar 23, 2010, 1:39 AM
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aw, at least there's some humor in this world.
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Gmburns2000
Mar 23, 2010, 1:39 AM
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yeah, sure is. Hey, did you go to the gym today?
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Gmburns2000
Mar 23, 2010, 1:40 AM
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yeah, why?
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Gmburns2000
Mar 23, 2010, 1:40 AM
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you fucking stink. go take a shower you slob.
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Gmburns2000
Mar 23, 2010, 1:40 AM
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Gmburns2000
Mar 23, 2010, 2:07 AM
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my, you came back nice and clean. 
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Gmburns2000
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Gmburns2000
Mar 23, 2010, 2:08 AM
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Gmburns2000
Mar 23, 2010, 2:08 AM
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Gmburns2000
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