Whooooooooohooooooo!!!! I can like to have weekend!!!! 

Alrighty then. It’s been a hectic couple of weeks and some serious changes along with it. I dare say I think it’s all going to be OK. Let the bragging start:

- Work: following an update from the big man it looks like some travel to Australia may be in the pipeline, maybe more than that later? Who knows, but at the very least I’m going to dip my toes in the ocean over the ocean

- Adventure Inc.: What a shitty name – I think I’ve lost my self proclaimed gift for nifty naming. Anyways, until some better title pops up, it’s what I’ll call my effort to get a group of regular friends together for some climbing. I’ve been playing with the idea of guiding and if I’m going to try get some experience herding cats, I might as well drag my friends along for the ride. This Sunday is episode one.

- Mortgage burning party in the pipeline, although probably still a few months away. Got a buyer who’ll be renting until the sale goes through, so a huge relief for me. No more keeping 10 000 sqm grass civilised.

Ooh, and did I mention Ramfest? Yes please. Good friends, good music – what more can one ask for?

Whooooooooohooooooo!!!! I can like to have weekend!!!! 

They crawl in like a cockroach leaving babies in my bed, dropping little reels of tape to remind me that I’m alone.

(Blue October)

(Jethro Tull)

….and man invented email and powerpoint slides. He invented adress books and made it possible to send emails to everyone at once. He thought up soppy stories of religion which he spread mercilessly and without thought,
and saw that it was not enough.

He added thinly veiled threats of impending misfortune, or sly insinuations of not caring for family and friends to ensure recipients did not “break the chain” and faithfully assisted in spreading these messages.

But man was not satisfied. In a desperate cry of insecurity, he added a rule: “Though shall send this message to all your family and friends. Though shall also send it to me, and I shall feel vindicated”

I’ll add religious mails to my list of things I hate about the email I get. I think I’ll make this post my standard reply to any further religious mails. A little random something’n’something to think about before hitting “Send” next time round.

Accept for a strange one about kittens, I’m still not getting mail like Seth’s getting - must be doing something wrong <sigh>

I’m not sure, for the sake of my own sanity, that I should continue on this topic. This past Friday I ordered a pizza from Mimmo’s in Zambesi drive, and it turned out a disaster.

I was told it would be a 15 minute wait. As in my previous article , I don’t really care if it’s 2 hours, as long as I’m told upfront and can then decide whether or not I’d like to wait that long, rather than being forced to wait it out because I’ve already paid.

Failure 1: Pizza took 40 minutes.

I got home, messed around a bit and then got down to the serious business of eating my chili pizza.

Failure 2: Virtually no chillies. The pizza which is supposed to be covered in Jalapenos, had 2 or 3 small pieces hidden away on one slice. Apart from this obvious fuck up, the pizza was soggy and had a sour / uncooked taste. Deciding that I’m not going to waste my time driving all the way back there, explaining the screw up and taking the chance of waiting another 40 minutes for a pizza of bad quality, I tried finding another closer take-away. All closed, so I headed back to Mimmo’s, pizza in hand and BA attitude.

I was surprised to see people who placed orders halfway through my wait still waiting for their orders – I confirmed with them that they’re still waiting and indeed they were – by my estimate they must have been waiting in excess of an hour at this stage.

I did a brief tantrum thingy and then left - I did not see the use in wasting any more of my Friday night. Mimmo’s Zambesi suck at making pizza. Pity the guys from Mimmo’s Pizza in Northampton is a tad far from me, their reviews on urbanspoon.com sounds great

To say I sucked would be a bit of an understatement. I got to the second bolt and simply had no juice left to go any further and seriously considered leaving the gear behind. After an epic jumar to the last bolt clipped, I had to swing out to the adjacent route’s (a 24) anchors. Even just cleaning the route proved to be a tedious and drawn out process.

De-motivation squared. The only thing that made me feel a bit better was getting home and reading that someone suggested an upgrade to 21.

So this week’s mission is to start getting fit – I’m guessing the stiff walk-in must have played a role, and then more hangdog. Yes, plenty more hangdog. And lose some weight, let’s make it a round 10kg’s, by end next week

In the process I’ll start writing my own cook book and stumble upon the first design for a cold fusion frying pan. That will make George Foreman cry, I’m sure. And of course find someone to pay me more for doing less: management position, here I come.

Never underestimate the power of a sick mind. Muahahahahaha

www.explosm.net

Operation route guide print is a go go go!

- Test the guide readability on the screen at A5 size: check
- Specify duplex printing in order to save paper: check
- Get quote from printers for printing & binding: check 
- Place order as per quote: check

And then I arrive at the printers. Shock. Horror. I’m handed a route guide the size of a door. I double check my mails, yip, there it is – I asked for it – A3.

So now, in the paraphrased words of Jack Parrow, I’ll be the guy at the crag with the fresh new book. 

The largest route guide in the universe (cellphone for scale):

I’ve ordered a new A5 sized print, and will be donating the larger than life version to the Appin Inn guesthouse where many climbers stay, hopefully it’ll be of some use there.

from Inhabitat: “a physicist at Tohoku University in Japan has figured out how to teleport energy from one point in the universe to another.

The energy teleportation technique is based upon research that shows it’s possible to teleport information from one location to another. According to MIT, “The process of teleportation involves making a measurement on each one [of] an entangled pair of particles. He points out that the measurement on the first particle injects quantum energy into the system. He then shows that by carefully choosing the measurement to do on the second particle, it is possible to extract the original energy.

Heady stuff, but essentially it means that you can inject energy at one point in the universe and extract it from somewhere else without changing the energy of the system as a whole.”

Sure would beat rush hour traffic….