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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 16, 2014 - 06:14am PT
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yee-haw, boy!boy, howdy!
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Oct 16, 2014 - 08:17am PT
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zOrro
eLzOrro
zCaesar (zCaesar_salad was invented in TJ you know)
zCommerce, zBay, zSpn, zZRider, studZ Terkel
from the "The zWax Museum" (interesting note: studZ was an attorney, not a scientist - go figure)
[Click to View YouTube Video]
and who can forget zantZinger (me apparently)
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Oct 16, 2014 - 08:26am PT
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eWipeout Take II - Can anyone classify this move?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 16, 2014 - 11:20am PT
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EZ PZ.
"Oops zDaisy."
Technique invented by Tom & Dick Smothers for cravis rescue, so it's not really a move but a rope maneuver.
Speaking of pumas...
Boy, howdy![Click to View YouTube Video]Yee-haw, girl!
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Oct 16, 2014 - 11:26am PT
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Need I say foxZ ladies? Would zantZinger have beat 'em with a cane?
I wouldn't touch 'em with someone else's stingZer.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Oct 16, 2014 - 11:42am PT
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WTFin'A - I had always heard that the Fifth Beatle was white.
In this, oh so obviously, photoshopped rendition they succeeded in Michael JacksoniZing Richard into a white boy. Not Ringo, man, the other one.
Just a quick question, (I've heard it pays not to be too inquistive in these partZ (well ok as long as we're here is it true partZ is partZ?)
Are those a pair of locker re-soulZ that Ringo is wearing?
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 16, 2014 - 02:05pm PT
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A Troll, caught by the dawn turned to stone.
(That is what happens to them if they do not hide before sun up. It's a family thing, goes way back. A Bilbo Baggins Trick ,,)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 16, 2014 - 04:50pm PT
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"Mah friends, listen to me now and believe me later..."
Dog With A Blog, from DISNEY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYoIO8_IEVs
It's a puerile piece of typical Disney "family-style humor," this series about a talking dog (a friend of a talking carrot, a relative of the talking yam from above).
neebee, I hope you will watch it, please. There is a clown painting in the clip which is frightening, if one is as sensitive as zClown.
I was feeling pretty low this morning. Laugh, clown, laugh.
The ancient elevator in the building (it goes all the way back to the twenties) will soon be renovated; the project will take around two months; the management is offering relocation for those tenants with problems ensuing (handicapped and wheelchair-bound and those like me who suffer from breathing issues) from climbing stairs. It's five stories and I live on three, that's not so bad.
My main concern with accepting other lodging for two months centered on my new bike, Electra the Graceful, as to where to put it. Carrying it up and down three flights of stairs is not to be countenanced. It turns out that there will be a bike rack installed in the lobby, so this made me decide to stay in the building. I'll be able to lock it securely and not hassle the enduro-climb.
My breathing (COPD strikes slowly, but perniciously) is seriously going to hell--at least it's more noticeable and more annoying and more frustrating than ever. I am hardly ever able to draw a breath without noisy rales anymore, accompanied by bouts of coughing up nasty stuff and it's really making me lose a lot of rest. It may be affecting my appetite somewhat, too, but I'm still eating raw foods, mostly, so that helps. Some of you who saw me at Facelift know my speed is slowed way down compared to "normal." I can't keep up and gotta go my own speed.
Anyway, I decided to stay. There is a hernia operation pending, too. I don't know how that may affect me as far as my mobility is concerned, but it's going to limit it for however long and however severely.
I want to assert that I am not whining, looking for sympathy, or seeking help. I'm just layin' it out there what's happenin' to me so rumors don't start a-bounding. My sit. has the pot. for depression, but I'm not letting it get to me. I look at that card, think what a wonderful world, and want to stick around to enjoy it as long as I can, ill or not, mobile or not.
I think of the song Black Peter a lot. It's an easy tune, I've listened to it hundreds of times. When I look at that card, I think, too, of how much pleasure I've had meeting the members of "The Flames Gang." I have yet to meet Jaybro and neebee and JohnTP and feralfae and zBrown.
I hope that before any of us pass on to the future life, that this will be taken care of. Life's been good so far: My troubles haven't been as great as some of the rest of you on the Taco have experienced, let's put it that way.
I want to say hi to Amyjo, too. The day we went birding out on the river and to Hornitos lives fondly in my heart, just next to the City of Rocks Expedition with MooseUse to visit with yet more of the ST crowd, and alongside the Oakdale Climbers Festival with all those dozens of fine folks.
Speaking of which, I won't be going to the OCS this year--the ladies will have to find someone equally good at shooting your fair faces and forms (and I was so looking forward to that, too). Instead, I'm resting my bones in Middle Earth and being "sedate" and not going far--the store, PO, maybe a turn around the block or over to Reinero's, but this hernia's no joke and it's getting me down just thinking of it and the upcoming procedure, whenever the VA gets around to me.
No day trips to the Valley, certainly. I may talk to my sister, Lenna Lou of the Lieback, and possibly take a week or so after the surgery to visit with her and Ed, up in Cedar Ridge near Sonora. This is a good thing, because we have much to talk about since none of our planned get-togethers have panned out this year. I think, though, of our Nana and how much she missed her sisters when she was on the road with Grandad, out in the West building dams and highways and SAC bomber runways on Guam. Part of her story, believe me, because a glass of wine alone is sometimes one's only solace.
I'm not forgetting the Road Trip to visit Cosmic; nor the one to visit Ron A and Max and SallyO--both last year, and T Hocking, yur not chopped liver--Tom's Thumb was unbelievably satisfying, if too short a trip. All these were doable only because I had some wheels. If this seems maudlin, it is. But better to take this opportunity NOW, than to let it go till it's TOO LATE.
I've been spending too much alone time in graveyards, I suppose. But when I'm dead and gone, it will be the same, because I don't want no plastic Jesus grave marker. I want the solitude of the High Place, the curving moraine below the SW Face of Mount Clark mentioned by Clarence King in "A Sierra Storm." I'll be comfortable there. It won't be that big a change from my life as it is.
Conversation between myself and the stars above Yosemite might be as much or more fun than dealing with the stars whom I have mentioned here. The big bonus might could be meeting up with my Liz once more, laid to rest next to the San Andreas Fault at Seal Rock on the Great Highway, maybe down by the Farallones in a few million millennia. Quien sabe, amigos?
Serious sh!t from Mouse from Merced. Thanks for reading this.
It's been perking just below the surface like a weak Yellowstone mud-pot a long time; and now the stink is let out I feel lots better.
Solomon Burke, Jennifer Grey, Patrick SwayZ/Cry To Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pouIFiaIig
It's time to say welcome to GOD, Gnome Ofthe Diabase, too. You're just what the Doctor ordered, dude!
Throwpie, you are chopped liver, my brother. :0)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 16, 2014 - 05:12pm PT
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hey there, say, mouse... hang in there...
was hoping that the one trip i had to calif, for my family, could have taken me to merced area, for timid and nita, and you, and a few others, but no time to get ride out that way... my mom needed me and the unexpected, best surprise, was the miracle of ALL my kids, only god knew that THAT would happen... so perfect, was his time...
had hoped johntp could have drove up too, but it was sooo far from folks, had to just get the bay area folks, and the great surprise of susan, over the santa cruz mts...
wished to get to facelift some day, would see many then, extended family, and hopefully audrey, and all you all, but i knew there was no way, after the recent trips...
so HANG on there, for all those folks that YOU still want to meet, too...
we are many, hoping for lots of various open doors... got good friends in bend, oregon, too, that wish to someday see...
so for you, and for me, and for all those hoping for good 'meet up trips' with good buddies--here's a cheer and prayers for us all...
now, LET us know of the surgery date, we need to pray and send you good cheer--it helps for the recovery...
good to hear the bike has a safe place to be locked down... though, during surgery, would it be good to have someone get it up to your room, to wait? or is the office good to watch out for it, everyday?
:( oh, i wish you had not, the breathing troubles... do you use oxygen at night? my 91 year old german friend, she recently got it, and it has helped her a lot...
keep thinking of all the love in the card that we all have for you, mouse...
i had a few hard weeks here, so i could not post the fun 'mouse' pics that i wanted to add to this FLAMES THREAD... :(
THOUGHT you'd get a happy kick out of them, but will have to wait...
not sure when, but we shall see...
put lots of my surprise gifts, on hold, as well, and am just taking care of nearby stuff, 'til the hard 'not feel up to par' days, are done...
knowing that god watches over us, though, gives a solid anchor and hidden flow of joy, in the midst of harder journeys...
MAY--this hold true for you, as well...
:)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 16, 2014 - 05:31pm PT
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No, I don't use oxygen, neebee. I may start using it later, depending on "things." Just what those things are: Will the VA cover it like they are covering my other Rx? and will it actually be beneficial? and whatever else.
I very much liked what you said. You're such a blessing to the Taco. I certainly pray you are back to where you want to be--healthy and strong and independent-but-dependent on the Lord, which is how I try to be, honestly.
"Trails" would be boring without "travails," eh? A path through the talus is never to be taken lightly...Ed Hartouni ran into a little bitty biter on After Six when he climbed with Lilabiene there two weeks ago. Small troubles are not easily seen, we need to watch out constantly and I pray for safety even as I walk (or glide on Electra) down the sidewalks here in town.
I will make sure the Silver Ride is parked and locked in my room when I go to visit the VA, which is the 29th, for a pre-op consult. I can't imagine there will be much of a wait after that, but it's the VA, and you just never know. I use both the cable with which it came and my old U-shaped lock, the Titanic of bike locks, when it gets parked, even for the shortest visit to a store or wherever.
And thank you, one more time, you awesome lady!
And Powder, sweetheart, thank you for your effort, too. I sure hope your physical woes are on the road to wellness and that you get some climbing in before this spectacular fall weather turns.
And one more thanks, one more time, to Lilabiene, for her strategic role in the delivery of Electra.
Golden Girls Theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiQzUEc_FmI
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 16, 2014 - 06:03pm PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]
Happy Anniversary, The Flames.
October 16, 2012. Installment number one.
Fletcher
Trad climber
Fumbling towards stone
First "poster boy" for The Flames.
Eric doing his Mr. Natural impression, sans robe and beard.
Mr. Real Natural
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 17, 2014 - 06:19am PT
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six to three first walk off home run pennant win since when?
I am flying blind my pre view is not UP?
this was yesterday at 6:13pm I started
the family was heckling me but the light...
.(I had missed some)
The loves me Jay bird (get this done get thet done Quaw Quaw QWAUW)
is at me
so sorry (one more)
argh. wait whats that do you see it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z-GwdaKrn8http:
V V V V V V V V
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 17, 2014 - 06:33am PT
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^^^G.O.D., ever climb Try Again Ledge?
It's right of The Caverns in the Five Open Books, an Ed Leeper route.
Oh, this might be a weird day. I just clicked on this thread, and Rodger's post at the top of the page mentions, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, Try Again Ledge.
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=984269&tn=80
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 17, 2014 - 11:05am PT
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Get it done yet, honey?
Spent a little time on the mountain,
Spent a little time on the hill.
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Oct 17, 2014 - 01:04pm PT
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Love that New Speedway....their take of the Altamont Adventure I've heard.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 17, 2014 - 01:24pm PT
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Mod Squad be not squat
Come together in a figure-eight knot
See the reggae cowboy war be fought
Somewhere where it's really hot
Like in Fresno County like as not
I'm be fakin' it horse tonight
Somewhere out in the bright moon, right
Under the musical orbs in flight
Man oh man it's so far outasite
Jimmy gimme the DY-NO-MITE!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 17, 2014 - 01:25pm PT
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Oh, he'll claim not to remember this night in Berkeley.
Or was it?
We were in a closet smoking out with Jones.
No, wait...that was at Apathy House with Leo Newburn and Mathis and Leo's little brother Louie. I remember that.
The question remains, "Why deny?"
Let the flow go.
Man.
Mon.
Trojan skinheads (also known as traditional skinheads or trads) are individuals who identify with the original British skinhead subculture of the late 1960s, when ska, rocksteady, reggae and soul music were popular, and there was a heavy emphasis on mod-influenced clothing styles.
Don't forget the grass, lass.
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I'm thinkin' out loud
Can you hear me now
Thank me later
It's a great big roogalator
The question remains
Unanswered
But it's still the same
Is cheese better or is dreck better if dreck is better than drivel?
If dreck's not better*
Than drivel** it tends to beg the question
I end up juggling things
And never get my ducks in a row
Not even on a pond
*Send him to Dr. G
He's the new science guy
Relocating to another planet in the SoCal Galaxy
**Then where does that leave me
Out in?
In out? "Captain,sir, you've got to exhale."
Burton Cummings/WHO?/My Own Way To Rock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a1qeKzBf7Y
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