Don't Forget

Leah ... don't forget to re-dye your hair today. I know you said you weren't going to, but the Past Leah would be disappointed in Present Leah for just that defeatist attitude. And here is Leeloo, demonstrating one possible color.

Netscape Navigator

One year ago today, the nearly fourteen year old Netscape Navigator was finally killed off. It's final release was v9.0.0.6. It's been years since that browser has graced a computer of mine, but it was a Giant in its day - and I&

Presidential Traverse

It's finally time. I have all of my gear in a large pile on the floor (soon to be in a duffel bag) and a reservation for a car to haul me (and my gear) to the airport at 6am tomorrow morning. US Airways will probably take much

Street Fighter IV ... I might just cry

It's beautiful. It's not stupid like pretty much everything post-Street Fighter 2; it has all of the good characters (and a really gay "Dan" character that I hadn't seen before - what's the deal?); and it seals my fate: I&

Life sucks...

...and then you die. I'm going to sleep now. I hope tomorrow is better. It needs to be.

Challah-Challah-Bo-Ballah

Vacations have a lasting effect on me: when I return from vacation, I really, really don't want to get back to work. Today, I aided my desire to procrastinate by making challah bread. Step one (after you pour an endless amount of flour into the sticky battery stuff

Vicious Raccoon

It was nearly midnight last night as I finally decided to go to sleep. I was in bed and I found that my fancy new two-way radio was within arm's reach. This didn't surprise me much because I intentionally put it within arm's reach

On-the-Mountain Entertainment

Until today the definite plan was to pick up an iPod Touch (32GB) and load it full of movies. What better way to spend day after day, stuck in a tent, enduring a storm? I could easily fit a few dozen movies and still have room for a decent supply

A Week of Ice Climbing

Just finished up a week of ice climbing. It's so much fun. My memory of ice climbing a year ago still had me believing that ice climbing was fun (although hard), and I was pleased to find that after another week of it, it definitely is fun (and

Ice Climbing

The day has come. I dusted off my half-sharpened crampons and threw on my new boots: I realized that I hadn't yet sized the crampons for these boots, so I got that taken care of. Then I opened up the trunks of climbing gear and pulled out everything