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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 - Jun 6, 2016 - 07:02pm PT
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One which always concerned me was why did the makers of rubber "army men" never produce another color than the olive greens?
Red would be the obvious, post-war bid for a small fortune.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Fresh from a last minute trip to make copies of the Final exam that is the AP
(advanced placement) class' final graded project.
This was my intended target all along, A Brand New Crescent Moon;but I was working against a bunch of negative factorsthen the spot that was most shielded from distorting light was occupied, and shiny for-head here, Had an a opinion to share go figure
**edit, they make light brown 'Army men' as well as the zen ones,
Blue is the answer to every and any question, just ask the duck, if you lite that buck up
He'll unwind a tale or two
I saw Merry BITD, she was so cool.
Then there is, over on the Lesher Archive thread,
Nita!
Did ya see Her ? that is a photo, soft, crisp focus,
of way back when
That shows, WHAT A GEM!
It clearly shows
she, was & still is HOT ( mysagenistic, (fun spellin' huh?) aside,)
Timid ! Ya' dog! You scored right there sir !( the music always lands the winners!)
The story of how you reeled her in must be full value!
And you musta'been a Hunk Too!
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Maybe you weren't around during the Civil War.
Rumble in the Jungle.
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zBrown
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Originally there was a move afoot to add color and switch to plastic instead of rubber, but the manufacturers thought better of it.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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I am a rock climber. I was born that way
And I always will be.
It means I always look at the hardest way up 1st
It means things to me that can not be put into words
for me, It Has been literally
EVERYTHING!
My eyes have seen some sights.
Lots and lots of things that all climbers see.
(Eventually)
The visions have formed me,
Changed me
Made me grow to appreciate so much of what we can never know
I like 'da Boyd's' too, some believe, whist fully, that when we die,
We come back as birds
I hope we do
seems that I'm a fool if it is all that I've ever done, other than Procreate and have fun, I was lucky this time around, I got born ' Merican,
I think in pst lives i suffered too
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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 - Jun 7, 2016 - 07:33am PT
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Further headband sighting in The Lesher Archives thread.
Ron Peers works out at the Tuolumne Gym. Great color choice in a fine, absorbent, durable cotton, from the Heddy Casuals Collection.
($18/ppd).
Some inventive names for new routes from the Cozmic Bandito Flies.
Acid owl swoop...
Dangle jug spin nausea...
Manzanita death grab...
Mankful copperhead (too close to the ledge)...
Chief Tenaya's revenge...
Classic Mt. Watkins Revival, Sir Vival. What a thread, fer sure.
Cozmic Banditos Archives Survive. An Ode to an Adventure.
Tripmaster Bruce and Lesher let loose a slide of solid rock and loose memories.
It lies down there smoking still amidst the rubble and the toppled trees.
http://www.supertopo.com/tr/Cozmic-Bandito-Gang-Bang-South-Face-Mt-Watkins/t126n.html
I won't say a word about nita's Surprise, which would be a fine route name as well.
Like nita's Payback.
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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 - Jun 7, 2016 - 08:13am PT
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Spent the early a.m. hours in my recliner, minus any clothes.
The cooling night breeze paid me a visit and so I finally dozed.
The EOS Rebel and I each woke as the dawn became exposed.
These were shot most candidly, none of them were posed.
My pathetic lower shanks, no swelling but kinda gross with lesions produced because of the swelling.
WARNING: Could cause laughter, could cause mirth,
They're the worst they've looked ever since my birth.
Except that the swelling is under control. Last week--oh, my!
Don't call me Shirley and don't call me Legs.
There is a chance that I may seek the shelter, the animal shelter, that is and attempt to rescue a kitten. There is a new one down in the alley, a really nice, but skeptical young one that I talked with last night as I was returning from taking out the garbage. She was so kitten-adorable and amenable to listening to me. But I know she's feral, old enough to have begun learning that street life is okay if it's what you know, and that I have a chance to rescue somebody special from going into the void for no reason other than no one cares about it.
My main objection to having a pet cat: odor. But that's my end of the bargain. It will be fine if I task myself with the daily routine, which is what it takes. Not really a biggie.
I will name it Schultz, or Schultzz, if male, or schultzee if female.
My rent's going up next month, and it will not be a terrible thing to have to feed and provide litter. I should qualify for Food Stamps no problem, and if I play my cards well, I can go to both the shelter and the County agency today.
Health check today sez 112/74 and 177.5 lbs.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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That's some mighty good BP.
Have the medicals ever discussed compression sleeves like the ones that runners and b-ballers use?
Compression has been known to be effective in the treatment of leg swelling as early as Hippocrates. A first of its kind compression garment was invented in the 17th century by Richard Wiseman. It was laced and made of skin (he preferred dog skin because it was soft). Today, most compression garments are graded compression stockings made of various synthetic elastic materials. However, even today there are several alternatives for people with swollen legs who need compression.
This guy offers no opinion on kitten huffing.
Michele likes the color. YMMV. They probably make green ones too.
As I thought.
http://www.angiologist.com/uniquely-vascular-medicine/compression-for-leg-swelling/
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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 - Jun 7, 2016 - 10:02am PT
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Cannot help the baseball reference.
ChiSox-CompSox vs. BoSox-NZ All-Blacks, in a cage, going head-to-head with Game 3 of the NBA stupor-playoffs.
This is all coming LIVE AT FIVE tomorrow at 6 p.m.
Do-o-on't miss it, squares!!
Breakfast of Champions.
Rogaine? Tommy T never used it.God bless the bounty of this country and those who make it possible.
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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 - Jun 7, 2016 - 12:18pm PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]
Spurious Gear Review #1
Public service broadcast on KMFM.
We’d listened to his favorite, BB the King,
We drank Negra Modelo, for him an unusual thing.
Tommy’s not a Mex beer fan--he prefers Cobra.
Even for formal wear, it’s a cobra necktie or nothing.
He biked off to El Bajio, the local Mex supermarket.
He came back with his bike; but before he could park it,
I had opened the bottles with a horizontal piton-cwym-opener from Black Diamond.
This remarkable tool, heavy but solidly at home in my pants pocket next to my hammer, was given to me by a BD rep at Facelift. I had to use chicanery to get him to part with one, but that’s a campfire story.
I think it’s maybe contributed to my discomfort, carrying it around. Perhaps it’s responsible for my sore back. Maybe it’s causing me to walk funny so my knees are being unduly stressed. Maybe I’m a victim of commercial avarice. Maybe I could sue. But, hey, I asked for the damn thing.
However, I’d venture to say its weight has skewed the scales at most of my medical appts. The energy expended is negligible, likely—like a totally off-the-wall guesstimate is 29,000 tiny energy units.
Though one really needs to be
Thorough when reviewing gear, you see,
Accuracy is what it may be.
Just call me Bill O’Reilly
[Words from the expert truth-bender himself, channeled through me.]
By the way, this may be a first--I’m writing this “gear review” following a couple of Negra Modelos, which gave me the idea in the first place. How often are gear reviews done under the influence, DMT and other enquiring minds might ask.
This is getting circular and circular, Toto.
Will we ever find that animal shelter?
WE NEED THOSE PICS!!!
And for dissemination, this is not satire, it’s parody.
Having said that, here is my disclaimer:
“Do NOT try to use this item for pro until you’ve opened yur beers. Do so in yur own stupidity.”
My take on this item is such that, hating to call attention to myself in a blatant manner, like wearing a carabiner on my belt loop holding my keys and library card, or a bandana, or approach shoes, this key-holder is best left in my pocket. But when I take it out, still nobody notices. That’s its most redeeming feature, however, other than it works if you finagle it.
As I mentioned, the thing is heavy. Also, it is made from fairly soft metal alloy. It needs periodic dressing of the lower jaw. This is seen in the extreme close-up.
It took three tries to pop the caps on the Negra Modelos, on average. Were it sharper at the corner, I’m certain as I can be without having tested it, that a single pry would have been needed.
The impact resistance is only OK. That’s the American equivalent to the French Rating of So-So. British "hard."
You may be able to make out indents resulting from falls reaching seventy feet on to concrete. It’s definitely passed that test because it just moves the mass into a new configuration. But I’m no metallurgy guy. I’ll leave that to Yvon, who promised me he’d come say something.
He may be here, shortly.
Go have some lunch, maybe a good Mexican beer, and a siesta.
Who knows, but the surf may have come up in Los Banos.
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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 - Jun 7, 2016 - 12:44pm PT
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No, I haven't begun to vote yet. I never forgot to vote, as I mistakenly mistook the other day for the Primary date, not the other way around.
Now that I'm perfectly "clear" and my Scientology friends will attest to that, I'm voting for the oldest candidate. I have no other criteria which matter to me.
And I like the headband.Pete's a Brit or I'd vote for him over the rest, as well.The Statue of Liberty windmill.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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And now love's got that in common with the rocker, there it goes auto cored tied ha ha ha
Corrected.
FOUND IT ojrtybolgds? Meaning so cryptic, it is a break down of
Oh, Jeez, ritghtious yee be o-g-d,s(zhzhzh): or
well that's a relief ...
The rocker, who, in my impressionable youth, told me " the Smoker you get the player you are. . . ?
wait. . . . was that it? I better check
no it was
"The Smoker you drink , the Player you get
`[Click to View YouTube Video] poignant, to the point even topical,
but of course I have to play the one & only
Rocky Mountain Way[Click to View YouTube Video] there were a bunch of live versions too.
but for recalling Halcyon days, from in Richard Harrison's basement,
to tugging' on Horn pipe tubes, made from an Alaskan Dhal sheep horn,
in The parlor of the Shinns' of Merrill & Lynch, Fenner , pierce & SHINN
this was after the drunken incident on the stage, taking snaps of the school play, Hello Dolly?
or That Bye Bye Birdie jive. ( Ive told that story but it was long ago , I convinced the bigger than anyone I'd ever met to get his 6,6 arse in shape, to go rock climbing, to dry him out )
I was then invited to the posh estate, just a six bed room house
with five kids, 4 girls, & my friend 'Slim' it was a modest home on a busy road;Go Figure?
that studio version was the one. YMMV
yup , sure 'nuff,
Nujff said,
and did you catch a look at the Brave Cowboy's erosion thread?
He Shows a passport with dates & places That if I were to go Id end up Dead
Headless ( Eyeless in Gaza)
and back when He went? if it is his Papers. . . Please, well, back then Id'a' got stoned on Hash and lost my head, trying to import,
And the dates are for. . . for Christmas?
well I guess we know what his take is on Palestine or maybe knott
it would be those same entering* minds - that is *inquiring,
( O non auto-incorrect,)
I was trying to say before we were so rudely interrupted,
That only ekaterwalling mindsz, bored & under sexed , ( I know 'cause I got one of those, too )
she is not mad at you,
it is me;
C, I'm the one who pointed out to them, ( the never sharing Blanchard , Luthier to who?)
( and the one who's validity, other than as maybe a LEO in the valley BITD, has not got much to add no more than I really...)
&
that Sometimes Some of the Flames are in Keith Richards Backyard on a regular basis !
That and that I do not Googe rhymes with spooge & stooge , So for me to attack ?
could do damage - some unknown point - that it was on.
and there will be no turning back . .This has a cute introduction .[Click to View YouTube Video]
I just thought I should share all that??
Did any one go to this one?
New Riders Ofthe Purple Sage, your coast,1971, Skip around, go to the middle, or if you can, show some focus and listen to the show while doing some stationary biking Two Milk crates can be easily tasked for the purpose.
https://youtu.be/bY1qLlBYjm4
No way should I stop there, I want share about Englishtown, Raceway Park, Old bridge NJ 9/3-5/77
Like our own Woodstock with a year to prepare. high school kids with big plans and connections Kinderhook were our pals, and then of course I was In as were the Shinns it was . . . ?
It was an amazing life altering event and Not my 1st show by far.
The bands were playing only miles, as the crow flies from my pillow.
but it felt far off we all had to figure out were to go & meeting up was a very long shot.
this was a show held at a 20,000 seat area race track & like 125,000 of us showed up
We all boogied, rambling around it was Huge. Now, 37? years later,
The best of from that show is a best of of the whole show, the link takes you to 6 videos
https://youtu.be/cPJOmkDOFcQ?list=PL0BZlqSGMjpepuxI81Upy43-T9b0N7-0i
This was one of those very magic times for me when all was better than good like there was no reason to ever stop
The next time that would happen would be At Lake Placid '83 , Thats another long to fun time.
(%D
Hey sir get well would ya? Im all in for a bit , I Hammered back some drivel ? Eh?
grr,rock Star? yes with a hard growl when addressing all, - Grr,rock Star- poet Fool on the Hill?
Holden, not Coalfield though just like ole tom wolf now there wis a movie/! Jude Law to play the Flame? well that should suffice.
I'm not sure if Johnny Derp or "leo-I can swim in frozen waters" - would have been better cast ?
but not things, Movies , I'm not much into till they hit TV/internet, & my screen at home.
Naw, never mind; Not a fool -is fine- on the hill Grrockstar?
thats a large foot to bill? shoe to fit? Bill to foot Fit to shoe/
Only one Whats got One Flew Over The Cookooezznest, got to do with anything ?
Oh yes Best movies. . . ?
C how that works? no worries, Im fine I think I should take a brake Ok?
( sorry Nee Bee, it is my worst vice, , I would not sleep but for the drone and glow, like fire light, of a old school big box TV, Oh the Humanity think of the chilern'' or at least the electric bill)
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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 - Jun 7, 2016 - 05:04pm PT
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I was never in that basement. I had my own after '76 in El Sobrante.
I was never at Redlands, Keith's Sussex manor. I've never hardly been out of state.
It was my impression that the cross-dressing old reprobate lived in NY State, after reading Life. What a book that was. What a life he's had.
Rock star or rock star, Gnome, which way would you prefer to be remembered? We'll follow your lead.
T Hocking, he'd settle for the bass. He gives a good belay, tellya that. Mr. Rock Solid.
Cosmic would be the harp player, of course. He's the raspy-voiced wry guy struttin' his stuff in the tie-dye. Frontman.
I believe zBrown has some skills with a drum kit. He's so multi-faceted and inventive. Rockmaninoffski of the Skins and Shirts.
hooblie can sit in his driver's seat, tapping the horn-rhythmical, changing the channels Siriusly. Mr. Mooglie.
Then there's neebee, who plays spoons like a real westerner. That's cuz she is, at heart.
Harmonies by feralfae and Gypsy, natch. What a catch.
Geez, the potential for jamming on the TACO is huge, as Timid TopRope proves time and again at Facelift and his more private jams. We'd invite him as a guest artist - his ouevre is really jazz standards on the uke - but he does lick that guitar like a fat boy fixated on a mixing spoon.
And that's just this small band of brethren & cistern.
So that's an all-star line-up, but then there are others around, REAL SOUNDS having been joined in a harmonious whole by others on the big ST.
The playing of Survival I have not heard. He's supposed to be the second coming of someone famous, but that's all that I HAVE heard. So far not a discouraging word.
And Rong plays well enough for any garage band, but he needs practice at getting along with others. He don't play well with others, or he'd have stuck around.
There are the Chapman boys who jam with TTR, too. neebee's family is apparently musical as get-out. Maybe not ALL get-out, cuz there's a lot out there, but they got their share.
I did not forget Bushman. Who could fail to neglect the potential of Tim "Robert the Taco-Hunter" Sorenson's way with words once they've read some of them. Poems are easily converted to songs.
I've volunteered to manage and to produce for these high-ballin', high-powered-but-laid-back mountaineers.
Call me Bill Cheesencrackers and you're on the air.[Click to View YouTube Video]
DMC story pt. 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTUqUS-qd4E
edit: Thinking of BB King this morning, listening to him with Tommy, it occurred to me that in just over one year we have lost the King of the Blues (May 14, 2016), Prince (April 21, 2016), and The Greatest (June 3, 2016). Throw in David Bowie (January 10, 2016) as the Court Jester.They were all someone's heroes.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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The greatest to shake his mortal coil in this pass around the son was ?
Lonnie Mac
http://nyti.ms/1T4xe9N
That the original left out the mention of the bass riff heard round the world, the Doors
Road House blues? Whoops they placed that fact in a weak correction at the end of the Obit.
And not any of the others, well Davey Jones/ Bowie, as well as Big BB,
he Was the King, & as you emphasized by listing him 1st.
(The Big sounds we lost this year wow yes they all were musical stand outs )
But
the others? the imbeciles. sorry a bout that harsh critique
Cassis Clay was, as sir name; Clay, implies was molded, robbed and used.
Ended up for a time on Chi towns' south side
living with his 2 wives in a destitute neighborhood
He was an icon from/for the squares', when hate still ruled southern states.
The additions, to a complex set of dynamics that were
rampant on all fronts of society in those decades; as the struggle for
civil rights preceded, were not helped, by the doings of the ~
`Oslem 'other-hood rats (who kilt Malcom X),
did by way of the misguided Champ.
The Howard Cossel and Ali act was the brunt of jokes.
That was what they overcame
By pouring on his magnificent Charm,He sparkled
but was cast & took the role that if we are honest ,
looking back
The Mix Of Showmanship with Over the top Bluster,
tinged in racist violence, drapped in spectacle,
back-dropped by the Fight game & attending shadowy figures,
seems a for-runner to, or became a template for ( Could say current politics )
what I see as a crumbling of polite society.
So yes a great Blackman, a hero,
& to that clan more so, has finally stopped living a tortured existence
I'm glad, because his suffering was palpable
I pray for his soul to return, in a pleasant form.
( maybe a pigeon in Yosemite? )][edited x2, 1word 2nd][
I was introduced to Owesly and his wears around `71 or `2
when Ali & Frazier were due to do the do I to was doing the dew, too! So were you.
Talk about Not MY Scene ZMan,
I was a tree hugging' hippie ex-prankster wanna be
fly weight wrestling 'cause Keesey did, deadhead.
The wrestling led me to have some exposure plus,
it was inescapable static in the background of important issues.
but the way we( the Grandest Society fawn over relative reprobates is a sad statement Of where we were,
where we've been to get here where a phenomenology occurs:
Prince we lionize? A phentenol junky? no procreating ? is that sharing ? His artistry yes
Very impressive but the loss was not that great what had he done for Mic Jagger lately?
Harsh...
Too harsh,
Sorry, artist formerly known as Prince
RIP
To pass that trip
I'm not going to let slip but regularity, ten minutes at a time get on the floor. To get FIT~
I know the score, make your knees like a tent then go side to side a simple stretch
If you can when the knees are to one side throw the top leg straight to the side, a stretch
Then return to form ,
the knees up tent style, start slow straighten one leg out against the floor
Now the exercise begins rais the leg to match the top of the bent knee height, and reap eat
Sets of 5 on both sides. Next the chest you health mess, get the arms over your head
Stretch
Then arms up to form a prayer palms together, do 5 'flys'
the ones where you stick your hands up out-stretched, then down to the floor
Do this too:
Go around the clock, so to speak,
while lying on the floor, arms out-stretched, do small raises,
Lifting the arms up ten inches off the floor get every angle,
like is "around the clock , more than 10, 2, & 5 but that is a good start,
(Position 5? Hands by your sides, are you Feelin' me here, mfm?)
Presumptive arse hole, that was inconsiderate of me. . .
you can't have room in your rooms for Electra, the bike
( we are not all making a study of mfm)
Maybe there is a sheltered from the sun spot? Lobby?
A Gym like planet fitness?
That would take a lot, so just try to do some floor work by your self.
You no longer need to get dizzy, no jumping jaxs or toe touching,
but lift those arms & legs while in a prone position daily*
every day try to move from 5 reps up to more,
no more than 10 reps with out a 25 count rest.
That's where to start to get the exercise back into your hart.
It will never be fun - it could hurt your hernia to get down on the floor and back up again?
I did not include doing a whole set done while in the kneeling position.
Or Crunches' ya know almost sit ups, to activate the old core?
I have big trouble trying to do the kneeling sets, knee caps can't take it. . .
Then I made an off color, blue, remark that I thought funny but 'twas not.
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Bushman
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The state of quantum flux
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With a leg up on life
Let's us not repeat
The thrill of big toes
And the agony of de feet
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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 - Jun 8, 2016 - 06:56am PT
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Tighter!
Big Toe Jam over at the base of Snotrag Slabs
Will work your feet but not your abs.
A bit of stretching is good for you,
Big toes stretch your shoes some, too.
Wearing them always makes me squeek,
But they keep me from appearing weak.
They've saved my bacon and they'll save yours,
It's called living with blisters and some running sores.
--MFM
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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 - Jun 8, 2016 - 08:12am PT
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I have three Negra Modelos on ice. Thanks for the reminder.
It's not gonna get hot today so they'll sit there and chill until I'm back from errand behavior.
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zBrown
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