Laura and Erica settlin' the score with the boys. Priceless night. Thanks everyone who came. Let's do it again soon.

I miss my friends sometimes. Somtimes I miss my friends. A lot.

Today I went and worked in the gym for two hours on endurance. That means I had little to eat and pulled timed laps on the wall for two hours: 20 minutes on, 5 minutes off. Rinse and repeat. I didn’t think I’d have the juice for quarry night, but at 4:30 I called Dom and told him I was in. What a good decision!

At the quarry, despite my strain inside today, I rallied some effort actually climbed. I felt smooth and comfy on stuff I’ve felt a little sketch on before. I pulled The Governor clean and ran laps on Calvin and Hobbes commando style…and could have kept going!

I have no idea where my sudden energy and endurance came from, perhaps it was simply psych. I dunno. We’ll find out next Wednesday.

It was a good night for everybody. Melody got to spend some quality time with Nic on lots of different routes, Dom got to clean up a really cool 5.9 that he was excited about, I got Squirt Theory clean to my fail point (typical – headspace and fatigue issues, but stronger than last time), Laura just had a damned plain good time all around, and the dogs ran and chased and barked and were content. What the hell else could anyone ask for?

Life is good!

So, I dont have any images yet, so I’ll post one that I yanked from Micah’s site.

Melody and I watch as Laura belays Dom up Architect Rally.

Today was the first day of my Wilderness Medicine class. I have so mutch pitch in my hair and I never want to have that many hands all over my body again in my life…well, maybe someday.