I did some bouldering today. I bet I got in about an imperial ton in two hours. Maybe not though. My truck was really squatting. I should have got a trailer to take with so I could have got more. There was one hugey I wanted to get, but we were having a hell of a time moving it to get it in the truck. I have to unload them myself at home, so I decided against it. I still got 9 way to heavy for me to lift boulders plus a bunch of smaller ones.

Tomorrow if it isn't raining we are going climbing. If it does rain maybe we will go get more boulders.

7 Sleeps!!!

...now I'm off to see Iron Man...

yup.

I've got a nice new shotgun.

Should we start worrying or stop caring?

Post #4000. Don't know where else to put it.

I AM IRONMAN!! Duna na na naa nana na

Did you wear a beenie?

Oh man, it was freakin' awesome, btw!! Much better than Spiderman!

No

I forgot to take one with.

It wasn't very cold anyway.


Today was cold. I wore a hat. I was wishing I had wore long underwear.

haha.
I actually thought Poser had list potential, but I didn't want to be mean.

Now that Toady is gone, maybe we can vote/add as a suprise for her when she gets back.

You would need to powerwash the deck and use a deck cleaner to make it look nice. Sanding could help get rid of splinters. Is your deck cedar or treated? You can use colored sealer to make the treated look better.

Yes we are going to put a protector on it. The sucky thing with that is you need to keep doing it every couple of years. I shoulda used the composite decking. But that would have made it really expensive.

Since you know so much about it I'll leave it up to you.


And why do they deserve to live? Do they pay taxes? Do they help the environment?

No. The free load and expel noxious gases into the atmosphere with their stink butts. They dig up and kill plants that could have helped reduce greenhouse gases and in turn the plants rot and fill the sky with greenhouse gases of their own. On top of that they eat animal babies and destroy the nests of ground nesting birds. And they carry rabies. They are one of the most likely of animals to have rabies.

Skunks MUST DIE!!!!

See if you can smuggle some shooters on the plane. You know, those little bottle shots.

It will make things much more fun on the plane over.

Not much of a drinker unfortunately... I'll have to smuggle a couple of good books on instead.... it's going to be an interesting 20 hours.

That's a good way to end the trip early.


When was the last time you tried flying?

It's not that hard to do, most of the TSA people are on coke. They managed to smuggle bomb making material right by them according the study that was done by TSA-contracted personnel.

It's also not a big deal if you get caught. I was once, and I just said "hey it's less than 5 oz. (or whatever the limit is), so I thought it would be ok." If it's obvious that you aren't trying to hurt anything and are calm, the worst they will do is take it away...and then drink it themselves.

My cousin ran over a Skunk with her Camaro a number of years ago... ended up dragging the stink rodent a few hundered meters down the road (lower ground clearence). It was a damn hot summer that year too, and no amount of engine degreaser could get the smell away, especially when the engine warmed up.

I fly into Bangkok the night before (approx 20 hours prior) and I'll have already checked into the hotel, slept a night and half the day and will go collect her at the airport when she arrives. Her flight is a bit shorter than mine but she leaves a day later.

I've told this tale before, but I'll share it again.

When I was young, growing up on a ranch, we had tons of ranch-cats. Near-feral things, we would feed them on the front porch in exchange for them keeping the local mouse population somewhat under control.

One afternoon approaching winter solstice as the days grew shorter, my older sister was just arriving home from school. Coming up the steps to the porch, she reached down to pet one of the cats eating from the cat food bowl. Of course, this was not one of the cats, but in the early evenind dusk that she didn't realize this until it stiffened it's back legs and released an immense cloud of pungent stuff.

It took several gallons of tomato juice to clean her and the front porch up to the point that it wouldn't make your eyes water.


The only thing she can really say about it after all these years is "Skunks? Yeah, I petted one. Once."