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hobo_dan

Social climber

Minnesota

Sep 18, 2009 - 05:29pm PT

I thought the memory was the 2nd thing to go?

jstan

climber

Sep 18, 2009 - 05:33pm PT

Hobo:
Actually getting one up on Bev was a primal experience so I noted the event on my spreadsheet.

Character strings were very limited back then so there is no record beyond the above.

While, at the time she was still living in Maryland, you could tell she could hardly wait to go west. In the East this, of course, put her outside the class of normal people.

Jingy

Social climber

Flatland, Ca

Sep 18, 2009 - 06:04pm PT

Great story dononiini.. (sorry)

some times things just fall into place just right...

hahha

dogtown

Gym climber

JackAssVille, Wyoming

Sep 18, 2009 - 06:25pm PT

Love your stories. Man!

Peter Haan

Trad climber

San Francisco, CA

Sep 18, 2009 - 07:33pm PT

Stannard doesn't have linen on his bed; he has spreadsheets.

guido

Trad climber

Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific

Sep 18, 2009 - 08:06pm PT

Happen to be any Germans in the adjoining campsite?

jstan

climber

Sep 18, 2009 - 08:30pm PT

Bump for a climbing thread.

I think I can see what Guido is saying.

In German the action always comes as the last word in the sentence. Same thing when you throw a hatchet at a tree.

My original comment dealt with the fact men have absolutely no idea what women are thinking.

Jim was/is thinking in terms of what a guy would think. Bev would more likely have concluded she could get Jim to do anything she wanted.

I'm not saying she was right. But those eyes were pretty big.............

As soon as Jeff makes POTUS we should have legislation as regards this problem.

jstan

climber

Sep 18, 2009 - 08:34pm PT

Come weeez me babeeeee.

Fritz

Trad climber

Hagerman, ID

Sep 18, 2009 - 08:43pm PT

So----Donini! Now that you bring up stories-------respecting your privacy: I sat on my memories of you being not only a Green Beret---but a Green Beret Medic --------on this site, and elsewhere.

For those that do not appreciate the difference: Green Beret Medics were expected to do far more than most Army Medics.

"Appendectomy with a spoon & knife,” was one of the slightly overstated feats I heard about from another Vietnam Era, Green Beret Medic, friend. He spent most of his tour as the doctor for a Thai village that was near Cambodian border. Told me that he either took care of the local’s medical problems, or they died. That included female health and childbirth.

If you read the post earlier this year about Donini giving extended mouth to mouth & CPR to the, horribly injured, tourist woman who had fallen near Yosemite Falls-------he knew exactly what he was doing and did it until the helicopter people finally took her away.

Remember! “They are only dead, when they are cold and dead.”

Dr.Sprock

Boulder climber

Sprocketville

Sep 18, 2009 - 09:16pm PT

i don't know, but if i'm a chick, and someone pulls off a stunt like that,
i would instantly drop to my knees and purse my perfumed lips around that prickly prang of pleasure.
especially if it was purple.
because the purple dong, is very long,
and the odor it exudes?
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Lynne Leichtfuss

Social climber

valley center, ca

Sep 18, 2009 - 09:36pm PT

t*r

Guys are not into girls with big eyes....they are into girls. I rest my case and see you in Valley of Wow manana. lynnie

Sprock, yo giving manhood a blemished name. Dude .....yo wannna be the cool one with class dripping from you. Dirtbaggers excell at that. Corporate suits, Not ! jess sayin'.

Roger Breedlove

climber

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Sep 18, 2009 - 09:57pm PT

Hey Lynne, cut some slack. I wear a suit, have the soul of a dirtbagger, and have a collection of really fine hatchets, some of which I can fit unobtrusively under my jackets.

I may have to practice throwing them over my shoulder at meetings in our conference room. If I change sides I could stick them in the mahogany paneling (otherwise they might bounce off the plateglass and hurt someone or bust it and fall 41 stories to the unsuspecting folks milling around on the sidewalk. “I got the axe,” would take on a whole need level of meaning in corporate America. I could get back to everyone in ST land about the effect it had on my co-workers and visitors. You know, I could pass out survey sheets with categories and 1-10 scales. Have some analyst build a spreadsheet. Work up a strategic assessment rubric.

Life is so much more complicated now that it was in Camp 4.

Ed Hartouni

Trad climber

Livermore, CA

Sep 18, 2009 - 10:01pm PT

the real history here is that jstan invented the spreadsheet way before its time!

Peter Haan

Trad climber

San Francisco, CA

Sep 18, 2009 - 10:02pm PT

Especially if you make it so, Roger. Can we talk?

Take a look at Lynnie. Here she has simplified. She is headed to Camp Four as we speak having quit her job, loaded down with the required brews, tie-dye outfits (her new business) all in a big ole school bus. It is altogether simple for her. What about you? Are you ready for the Leuchtfuss Challenge?

Lynne Leichtfuss

Social climber

valley center, ca

Sep 18, 2009 - 10:10pm PT

Roger B, yo the best! Wish we heard from "this suit" more often. When are you going to bring your beautiful wife and perhaps the daughters out to Facelift here in the Valley of Wow ?

Ken has such a classy, well organized gig going...along with tons of fun. Anyway, Roger B. I never think of you as a suit...just a youngun' with alot of curly hair.....love those bitd photos. Thanks for your huge help in moving lynnie along the path to healing from grief, pain and loss. Yo, Bachar, Craig Chaos, Todd Gordon and a couple others were such a blessing and gift to me in processing the enormity of Dan's death 12/29/07...21 months ago that seem like yesterday or 20 years ago....

I could never have gone to a "circle of sharing with strangers at some prearranged event here in my city.....BUT the circle of campfire here on ST was awesome in helping lynnie along toward healing. Peace to all tonight and Dude, watch playing with hatchets on the 40th floor or they may retire YOu ! :DD lynnie

jstan

climber

Sep 18, 2009 - 10:10pm PT

There is actually a story here AND it is ON TOPIC.

When I was working for the Naval Research Lab. I needed a program to do this kind of stuff and a programmer Carderock friend was looking for work. It took only the amount of brain that I have to realize there was an opportunity here. I convinced my supervisor to let me personally hire him to do this for us.

Well my friend was endowed with more brains than I and he wrote the program, in Fortran, to do all that I needed. So I had something ahead of its time.

Now I don't want you to think it was easy. I was there one day when John smacked the T36 saying, "I will not be defeated BY A BOX!"

This is the kind of thing that has made us all successful.

Whether we know it or not.

John McGowan

Lynne Leichtfuss

Social climber

valley center, ca

Sep 18, 2009 - 10:18pm PT

Fattrad, Climbers that wear suits are not really "Suits". Suits are namby pamby dudes that think they are living life but not. imho

Peter, hope you are coming to C4 the 19 and 20th. Wait til yo see the psychedelic, but tasteful outfit I am wearing to John's celebration of life. Tasteful but FUN.

Gotta get home and load up the van. Gezzz it is 7pm already. Life Soars. We be praying for all those left behind to carry the work load. And we be asking God for clear sky's and love and joy and peace at the Lift. Smiles, lynnie

wack-N-dangle

Gym climber

the ground up

Sep 18, 2009 - 10:21pm PT

I took a class in college about the war in Vietnam. The teacher asked that we say simply [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Capps"] Welcome Home [/url] to any veteran who served there.

Some of my family served in war. I am lucky to say that I am a pacifist.