While Dallenbach's cow has served me well as an icon for some time, I think it needs a-changin.

I don't understand. I was taking it 'easy' tonight in light of a possible shoulder injury last week. Then suddenly I was on top of "Broken Glass", rated 5.11c. I just weighed in at 183.4, so it's not like this was a result of superior strength/mass ratio ( Read more... )

Alive, and weeping for liquor lost.

Tonight is come to end and tomorrow starts soon. At days end tomorrow comes to soon and I hope to wake in time. If not, please pardon.

Truly a gem of the english language:

"These antennas are the simplest practical antennas from a theoretical point of view."

When you're out alone on a dark road at night and you're suddenly not alone. You're being followed, and not by just any night-time friend, but da po-po man hisself ( Read more... )

Let her name not be lost to the knowledge of men.

I have one single goal for tonight: I want "Gravity Hates You" (5.10c, lead). This will be my fourth serious attempt at this climb, and hopefully my most successful to date. We'll find out tonight though ( Read more... )

First off, I weighed in at 191 this morning. Then I got ready for work (for instance by putting my shoes on) and suddenly weighed 201. Good times ( Read more... )

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
-- Lord Alfred Tennyson

For me, tonight, Love is an extra large black plastic trash bag. I don't think I've ever needed one in my life quite the way I needed one tonight.

It came through for me tonight when I needed it most.