Friday Comic of the Week: Twofer!

Oh Girl, of Cat and Girl, your personal introspective meta-narrative commentary makes me chuckle. Probably more than it should, but, who am i to stop from enjoying your brilliance? Am i made of stone?

And, well, to add insult to injury of my decision making abilities, the comic that was posted today was also simply too good to pass up. It stars one of my favorite characters from the Cat and Girl library - Bad Decision Dinosaur. So, in case the troubled, self doubting tirade of the comic above doesn't make you laugh, here's some more comedy, but with a history twist! Histo-medy!

Another Vedauwoo Party

Its funny, the amount of time that I've been spending of late in the equality state since i broke all employment and residential ties with it last year....

But, common sense be damned, we tromped back up to Wyoming last weekend with the regular crew of Dyl-ann and Mar-kate and camped out Friday and Saturday night. Liz and i were excited to get onto the crags, if only to relieve stress, but also to inaugurate the newest member of the family - our new rope!

Saturday morning saw us heading over to the Lower Blair Formations, where, after meeting and picking up Sean as well, we spent the majority of the day dancing between shady spots and belay positions. We shimmied up three climbs the first part of the day, which were all directly in a line and in respective difficulty ratings of 5.7, 5.8+ and 5.9-. (In case you're not familiar with the climbing grading system, here's a good page to reference. If you haven't noticed, much of the posts found here have something to do with this Yosemite Decimal System.)

After these wonderful climbs, we decided to set a top rope on one last route for the day: Intimidation, 5.9+. The climb turned out to be a 100 foot grunt fest of a crack, and certainly put me through my paces by the top of it (read: exhausted me) and sent home for the day with a wonderful Vedauwoo souvenir: exfoliated skin.

Sunday morning we rolled back over to the same spot once the tent was rolled up itself and did a pair of fun crack climbs before liz and i bolted in the afternoon. The first was a big, fun roof-prone crack 5.7, and the second a glorious 50 foot 5.6 handcrack that I could have spent all morning doing laps on, if only to hone the mystical art of crack climbing.

I put a few photos up on flickr here, but, per usual, Kate, Dylan and now cousin Ann all recorded much prettier shots, the favorite of Dylan's ill handily steal and post here.

Friday Comic of the Week: Coconut Dreams

Sorry to be so blank of late, but, truth be told there weren't many adventures had to speak of from last week and weekend, as I got to take a three day tour of South Central Wyoming (pretty, but, well.. you can tell why the settlers didn't stop the wagons) and then Liz and i spent the weekend cleaning the house. You know, a little Late-Summer-Cleaning.

So, we'll be up in Wyoming again this weekend, for a friends wedding in Cheyenne tonight, and some climbing and camping over at Vedauwoo to do our best to escape reality for a few hours.

I'll leave you with a little Natalie Dee - who, while may not make you bust a gut with laughter, i defy you not to smile at this little picture. Happy weekend, all!

Friday Comic of the Week: We welcome our maniacal overlords

Getting in near the end of the day here (it's still Friday! Lay off!) due to the fact that i've spent the last three days in the rockin' town of Rawlins, WY for work - setting a 80 foot tower base and pouring 16 yards of concrete. Just another week in paradise...

This weeks winner has to be from Diesel Sweeties, which never fails to illuminate the honest to goodness truths of life.


Also, as an update, my wounds are doing better and i now only have major road rash covering most of my chin, though it is getting better every day. I'll be pulling myself up to the top of hills with my face in no time. Happy weekend everybody!