Finally went climbing again - first time in months, since I broke my little toe. Lost a lot of grip strength in the meantime, but still made it up a 17 (just). Toe survived without complaining, and so did the tendon I did something odd to in my other foot, so that's good. Just a few odd cramps in my thigh halfway up the wall. Presuming I don't ( Read more... )

My moment of awesomeness for the day: pausing half way up my climb to do up my shoelace, without the person on belay having to hold my weight. Everyone, including the HangDog staff, was well impressed.

I woke up with two cats on the bed this morning - Spoons lying down at my feet, looking worried, and Greebo up at my face trying to get me to wake up and feed him - no baseball bat thankfully...
There are still moments of caution when passing each other in the hallway, some ocassional crying from Spoons, and the raised paw of dominant smack-down ( Read more... )

So last weekend I put my old couch up for sale on TradeMe, along with a set of shelves in the shape of a boat. I had been planning on taking the shelves to the tip shop, but put them up with a $1 reserve, just to see if anyone would pay money for them. The couch went for $51, and was picked up this afternoon. The shelves went for a staggering $ ( Read more... )

Went rock climbing for the first time in forever, with Nigel & Anna & Andy. Was awesome fun, and we might make it a regular Tuesday thing. If Darton singing practice starts back on Tuesdays again I'll be able to fit in climbing beforehand, since we all skive off work at 4 so we can be climbing at 4.30 and beat the after-work crowd. We had the ( Read more... )