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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 1, 2017 - 12:44am PT
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A well-traveled mind reveals itself, showing us that there are two sides to every coin.
Humans are fortunate that our minds are able to scale up and to scale down as needed.
Welcome to the poor man's "Mind Thread."
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 1, 2017 - 12:56am PT
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This is being posted here for a reason.
The reason is you should stock up for the coming holidays.
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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On Gerle Creek Trail
Just a jaunt by the cedars
great pines and old firs
we hiked along the creek
through their ancestral home
Tongues voiceless but wagging
we talked with our limbs
as the autumn winds spoke
what the animals all know
Took the old foot bridge there
The timbers were healthy
The rails showed little rust
The walking stick tapped along through the forest
On Gerle creek trail
it's not very far
When the campers go home
You can find solace
and food for the soul in the mountains
-bushman
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 1, 2017 - 07:29am PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Well, Señor, that's how Garcia spelled it, phonetically. I believe he had a BMW.
Have we been down this way before?
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Señor, señor, let’s disconnect these cables
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zBrown
Ice climber
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If I can trackdown Rosemary, I'll ask her.
Denver crime scene photo 1968
Making LSD in Denver was very similar to making LSD at the Point Richmond lab. Acid Makers’ Queasy kept everyone wired and focused, but Scully was just as high on the idea that they were pumping out a miracle substance that would save the world. With Stanley and Cargill’s help, he and Douglas had converted all the lysergic acid into pure LSD by early September. The output this time was even larger than before: 300 grams, or about a million doses of LSD. http://www.westword.com/news/denvers-underground-lsd-labs-fueled-the-psychedelic-revolution-9644844
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 1, 2017 - 04:41pm PT
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A Throwpie Favorite!
Panch and John are cruising an almost empty LA freeway when they spot a stop sign violator,
who turns out to be one of a myriad of stupid SoCal drivers.[Click to View YouTube Video]The video that was too stupid to post to "I am tired of stoopid" works fine here.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 1, 2017 - 06:31pm PT
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Oh, I miss the Flames and all you guys here! I am so freaking busy that most days are almost a blur! Joined a board that keeps me hopping, in a good way. Took on an editorship of a journal, and meanwhile, I am doing all this Egoscue training, which is fantastic. I am not allowed to run yet, but maybe I can X-C this winter. And it snowed today. :)
My flute is tarnishing. I looked at it today. Just looked. I miss porcelain, and getting all muddy. I sneak in and stealthily read posts when I can find some time. I miss those more leisure days, but I am on a mission. Mouse, thank you more than I can say for getting in touch. I have been gone for far too long, and need to catch up on news, the happy and the sad.
neebee, I know you will read this, so let us make an appointment to visit, because otherwise, we neither one of us will have the time. I am remiss lately in my social correspondence as well. I am truly sorry. I am trying to make a bit more free time by the first of the year.
Mouse, I see you are out walking around the 'hood and visiting people and places. Bravo! You lead by example, as any proper leader would. Thank you for keeping the Flames going. This place continues to be a sanctuary against much of the madness that occasionally occupies top billing, although I think the trend is toward more relevant information and civility, as far as I have observed.
It is good to see you all still here. Sort of like leaving base camp for a foray, coming back in a week and finding all you guys still hanging out. Very heart-warming. But I have a few more solos to do by year end, so I'd better stay on mission.
Carry on
Keep on Having Entirely Too Much Fun
And raise a glass to Doug and me when next you have a bit of wine.
See you soon, and neebee, send an email when you can, so we can try to plan an appointment.
So good to see you all here.
Happy All Saints Day!
Happy Thanksgiving!
ff
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zBrown
Ice climber
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ff
Not that you need to, but keep on getting better
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Thank you zB.
I am getting better, out of the being ill phase and into the
'Let's see how far I can go!"
phase, which is, as you know, what life is all about. :)
Good to see you here.
ff
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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On the Pile as I recall
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 1, 2017 - 10:52pm PT
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Throwpie:
The Nutcracker was the very first climb after my knee surgery...this was June or July of '79 and the surgery happened during March Madness.
That is Marc Irwin, now fat 'n' outta shape 'n' living on the East Coast somewhere. Marc was my brother-in-law at the time, about six years younger.
We were super-slow as a party of three and some diquad down below was bitter in his vituperation, but our shouting match solved nothing and did his cause no good. I think he left the field to us, much chagrined, doomed to stand and wait some more.
I think Old Millis would have been proud that day to see what his mentoring had accomplished, cuz Old DM didn't take sh#t from anyone.
Between us, I think we sold most of what we two were wearing, except for the knee pad, at the TNF factory outlets. Marc was running the Palo Alto outlet when I was running the one in Berkeley. He is modeling the Chamois Shirt in green which we bought from Robbins, probably. I chose to wear a CPO shirt, even though it was in summer. I still have one.
You musta been living in SF. I recall you wearing a black helmet, like a motorcycle helmet. I couldn't see how you could keep your head up straight, the thing was so heavy-looking. Maybe time's distance is distorting some things, but that's pretty close.
And feralfae is an editor because she is, let's face it, a polymath and a whiz kid and a beauty queen and has a kind heart but won't accept less than one's best.
And who among captains of industry would not like her on the board? Many, I'm tellinya, cuz they don't all play by the rules. Not by a long bag of chalk. Her morality would make their bones ache and their teeth loosen, cause their bowels to turn to jelly and their eyes to glaze, get them to do the right thing or else to hide their nefarious business even deeper.
See you when the fruitcake blossoms again, m'dear.
zBrown, can't knock the Dodgers for not tryin'.
But there is no trying in baseball or Jedi life, as Grand Master Yoda said.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 1, 2017 - 11:33pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 2, 2017 - 02:02am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 2, 2017 - 02:22am PT
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I've been weirded out. The clock on the bottom of the computer monitor and the clock on my phone are one hour apart. When I went to sleep earlier after posting the little boy's pic it was not so. I checked the phone for messages then and it was in synch. Now it is one hour late in comparison to the computer.
I dunno. Shades of Y2K. The phone magnates do pretty much what they want.
I had a disturbing dream before wakening, too, involving content manipulation here on this thread, which was not only disturbing but lewd and would have called for my immediate banning, had it been real.
Psychotropic effects from smoking lots less weed? Seasonal depression? Time change depression? That Jolly Rancher I sucked on before bed?
But none of this explains the difference in the times.
Patti Smith - Changing Of the Guard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY2B_9KpRqk
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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the appearance of ff makes for a good page, i wanted in on it. it's still bring what you got, right?
this jag i been on ... i'm thinkin' it's "framin' at fingertip range." ... 'boutout. i'll go get some more
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