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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 26, 2015 - 02:10pm PT
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For Gnome, who's lost his camera and is losing his grip. :0)
The Farm Team, not even on the bench.
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zBrown
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Jul 26, 2015 - 05:08pm PT
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Grips, we got tons of 'em. What we don't have is crips, though there is some weird graffiti in the drain culvert.
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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 - Jul 26, 2015 - 08:20pm PT
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Cosmic, that's the Abominable Snowman--where are your glasses?
Hahahahaha.
HEY, HERR BRAUN!!!!! Look at what I found!
Except in salt water, then the edge goes to Namu.
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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 - Jul 26, 2015 - 09:02pm PT
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Mid-August, 2014.Where have all the wall climbers gone?
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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 - Jul 27, 2015 - 02:14am PT
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Our Flames reporter, on his day trip to the Valley two days ago, reported that the river was muddy. However, he neglected to tell me of the Hwy. 140 road closure because it opened just before he had gotten on the bus to travel into the park that morning.
He mentioned an incident at the four-way stop at Stoneman Bridge, where Northside Drive and Southside Drive intersect. He was on his bike and it was his turn to cross the intersection on his bicycle when some flat-lander in a big pick-up made a turn-in-a-hurry, right there by Curry, only to become the last in the string of cars strung out on Northside Drive ALL THE WAY TO THE VILLAGE STORE!
So not only was the river muddy, but the roads were sludgy.
Yessir, you can have July and early August in the Ditch. Give me September and October any year.
These are from October 2013.
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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 - Jul 27, 2015 - 06:20am PT
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Off to see the heart wizard in Palo Alto.
Did you know that the words in Spanish "palo alta" mean high stick?
"Palo Alto" means just that, "palo alto".
It might be a more interesting trip if I were going to Alta Bates Hospital in Palo Alta. It's actually Sutter Alta Bates now...a merger or buy-in/out.
Best possible scenario would be to live on Dwight Way once more, and have to go across the street to Herrick Hospital.
Except that it's now called Alta Bates Summit Medical Center--Herrick Campus.
Medicine is getting more whacked out and more expensive AND PEOPLE ARE STILL DYING!
How pucked up it that? So don't ask me what's up, Doc. Ask the nurse, who usually has the right skinny.
Six out of ten doctors will not agree, but they're the ones to avoid.
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zBrown
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Jul 27, 2015 - 07:55am PT
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He'll call if he needs yhou.
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zBrown
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Jul 27, 2015 - 07:57am 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 - Jul 27, 2015 - 07:59am PT
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The fickle finger tickles me, sometimes. Take this morning, for example.
I'm scheduled to meet my ride at 6:40 a.m. for Los Banos. I'm waiting and waiting and waiting at the Transpo Center a block over from Middle Earth.
Another vet is there, waiting for the van to Fresno's VA hospital. We are waiting and waiting and waiting.
Mouse and Ken are waiting. See them wait.
Mouse and Ken are early. They are waiting.
Mouse is fed up with waiting. See him do the slow burn.
Mouse is burning slowly. He is very hot.
I came back home and grabbed my phone to see if there was a message.
There is a missed call at 6:47. I called that number.
"This is Mr. Bermingham. Who is this?"
"This is Mr. Hoover."
"Are you the van driver?"
"Yes, and I'm now in Los Banos with the other guys."
"Fine. Can you tell me why I wasn't picked up at the Transpo Center?"
"Yes, it's because we called at the Tioga for you and blah-blah-blah..."
Well, no one mentioned I was being driven door-to-door, so that clears up any mystery. It pushes back everything. I need to re-schedule today.
It never ends. Fate's weapon, coincidence, allied with God's freakish will, are united in an axis of weirdness that defies my feeble attempts to cope with life, apparently.
I'm not looking for sympathy. I'm only relating what's happened. As long as the Higher Powers, Jesus and fate, are happy, I should be, too.
Tranquility is not just a town in Fresno County.
Serenity is not just a worn-out crack climb in Yosemite.
I can at least go back to bed and dream of pretty nurses delivering bouquets of get-well flowers.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Stop laughing at me, Gnome, you sick bastion!
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Jul 27, 2015 - 09:02am PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]
It is my Seoul more slow burn, spouse 'n rife with 'k. Dam strife fro ,my tooeeding
Also, too I to am a'goin down to see the doc if that creek don't. Rise
calls for flash floods 'n such . 'Round herae,
that mor' newenglandeese 'fora yeah'
I too will need to b suffering a through
phlobotimizing
Edit :) the use of Statins, as the only form of cholesterol reduction when the levels both remain too high and I'm a solid
A cholesterol reducing drug that . . to do the job of ridding --
. -try to follow in that I'm jumping,-
the body of bad cholesterol.
This was after the science has been around through genetics.
, blah blah ..
It has a long term important health change !
So , I have already for a good long time, kept getting regular, ' labs'- Sucks!
Baseline history and good stats will help qualify me for first trials ?one can hope.
to say that I have turned a true new shade of loud angry , wilted by the humidity that marks this as changed climate heat , the lady who is A saint to put up with me,
is taking the brunt .
just a terrible mix,
no food till the test,
and having forgot, I got the family special at the fling-moon-yawn,
some sort of Chinese restaurant , a eat in /take out place on the neast corner for us.
(trip to buying Real Estate:)
What does the phrase, "Location, Location , Location ," mean?
. to find the definition that suits you personally the ,
(sweet spot where balance can be found . )
Turns out for me it was Pizza chinese food and beer,
well not that last it was more like diapers for the
kids and a good Pain clinic for the two almost adults,
Now thats a vin diagram to try to visualize.,
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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 - Jul 27, 2015 - 09:35am PT
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Thanks for not getting "Flipper" involved in this, Xosmix.
I debated taking my phone before I stepped out the door this morning, too.
That adds irony to the pathos, thus turning it to COMEDY!!
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Jul 27, 2015 - 09:50am PT
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The camera is gone! WTF IT may be the heat and so misplaced, but I may have been lightenened of it from the un- locked car.
the story is as always abit off the jist is that I met a man with a camel colored '68 VW micro bus+sahara canvas tent back, cant find a pic to show to ya!
http://www.volksworld.com/photos/events/camperbus-show-2014-photos-33654
!This is a Rare Bird, and an incredible opportunity when he says to me hey Ill be pulling it out to ship it on monday come and get the royal tour' . . . . [[]'NO CAMERA!??[]}
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Jul 27, 2015 - 10:10am PT
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I took a stroll with the older camera, Now if i can find the right down load cable . . .
but i need to make peace with the srifewife, , ,
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zBrown
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Jul 27, 2015 - 10:17am PT
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Sometime soon, in the not too distant future or in the very distant future, when everyone is living on one of those billion distant Earth_Clones, auto transportation with become of thing of the past.
Which raises the interesting issue of who is going to inherit all those low-riders.
They seem to attract the attractive women like honey attracts peanut butter and toast.
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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 - Jul 27, 2015 - 10:26am PT
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Be of good cheer, Gnome.
Even the worst things go better with the Real Thing."Tulainyo Lake sits in a desolate bowl 12,828 feet above sea level nestled between four peaks – Mount Russell, Mount Carillon, Tunnabora Peak and The Cleaver.
It is one of the highest lakes in the contiguous United States and impressively large for its altitude.
Due to its elevation and shadowing effects from nearby peaks, the lake often remains ice and snow covered well into the summer.
In late summer and fall, with the ice and snow melted, the lake reveals a cerulean color with turquoise along its shores.
The photogenic setting is stark with the lake’s pure waters set amid granite boulders and cliffs.
I have wanted to visit this lake for some time and it did not disappoint."
http://pantilat.wordpress.com/2013/10/15/tulainyo-lake-the-cleaver-and-mount-carillon/
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Jul 27, 2015 - 04:48pm PT
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when last we left you hero you were gonna get it done and true to form the life that is yours turned its tail and run>??;9(There is So no cake for icing that vice is for young runners not ol' plodders that stumble along,
The vice that is my ginger brew is on moderation too I am fat( weird bowling ball tummy bulge ) because ,
i have to much surgar in my diet,
that is not coffee roll or anything that is easily cut out,
the vageries of wageries of a war against a bulge A bulge that is soft not hard, and stiff in soreness not in resistance
the calf muscles still rock but the toes they dislocate, after climbing.
no walking out after ten pitches
still able to climb though.
seems ten pounds i.e.
instead of ?
instead of say ? once in the days of yore.
zero elevation gain ,
it is a trick of the eye , iagh?
Seems I mis placed or lost had lifted by a very petty thief the camera,??gave the blood it takes me out, I am a huge woosie, and get faint past light headed.
Have at it I was always a SNAG sensitive new age guy, that is drawing howls of critical laughter from said #1'n only wife, she can't stop,. . say it, ? is it true?. . . . No . . .she's laughing still. . .
No, she is saying "troglodyte with an aversion to bathing". . . - but it takes one to marry one right,
. . . . .- now I'm ducking small flying objects,
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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 - Jul 27, 2015 - 05:03pm PT
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"Anything to keep the peace."
Show her this and see what happens.
Tell her for me that I have St. Jude on the case.
Hahahahaha and good luck, buddy.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jul 27, 2015 - 05:36pm PT
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this is the bottom of the positive hold, one is eventually pushing down and moving head first into the chimneyLike so many of the small stones I post; this is a lone stand of steeply leaned granite.. less pink, less quartz than some in the southern more zone,
this is akin to" Bald rock Basin" only better. The chunk is shortand full of faces, said it again but. . .
longest point from the gound . most problems are ten moves or less.
With the top-out, heel hooks & mantles, being crux.
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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 - Jul 27, 2015 - 06:34pm PT
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Are those "snail trail" from tree resin? Or What, Dafucqueue?
It honestly looks inviting, but resin on the sole of an expensive boot is not a hoot.
It's a duality thing, a Laurel/Hardy thing. Predestined to laugh at fate, we are, until gobbled up.
What a treat! Turkey a la King and all the smoke you can eat!
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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 - Jul 27, 2015 - 11:28pm PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]FAMILIAR FEWED
A midnight ramble through old musical memories, mixed with the worst TV has to offer, and some biting social commentary,
provided by your local Indian Giving Society.
Guest host John Denver stands to Contestant Willie Nelson's left. He says:
"Are there any real cowboys left, John?"
"My survey shows it ain't necessarily so."
"My survey shows the person on my left is sinister. Is he an Indian?"
"Survey shows....nope, not at all."
"Would that person be a so-called country singer?"
"Survey said....it ain't necessarily so."
"Would that person be someone taken home by seven Spanish angels?"
"Survey said....a cadaver! Well, that certainly rings a bell."
"Would this person like to host this program for the rest of his eternal rest?"
"Survey said....he's in Limbo, Willie. Close enough. One more correct answer gets you the prize."
"Would the person have a terrible habit of squinting when he makes contact with the driver?"
"Survey says....I can't hit the ball worth a darn! You win, Straight-Shooting Willie.
By the way, what's your handicap?"
"The IRS. Where's that check, John?"
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