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Beer! Fridge! Beer fridge!

lackhead — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:47:16 +0000

A little while I finally bought a big-boy fridge for my house, after getting by with a mini fridge I got when I first moved into my fridge-less house. Lil’ whitey, as he came to be known, moved on to a more austere use, that of a beer fridge. So far I have one new brown ale on tap, and my hopes are to get a second brew going when the fabled Mr. X and I get back from Zion in a few days.

Yay for beer!

-c

Photos: Canyoneering in North Wash

lackhead — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:57:11 +0000

This past weekend Ethan and I headed down south of Hanksville, UT for some fun and sun in the Utah Desert. We hit up Leprechaun Canyon, Shillelagh Canyon, and Arsenic Canyon in the weekend, fitting in about 10,394 miles of slotty goodness in the two days we were there. Dry as a bone, tight, and beeee-uti-ful! I can’t wait to get back down there and explore the many other canyons that are just waiting to be explored.

-c

Photos: Indian Creek and Moab, September 2008

lackhead — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:06:17 +0000

I have finally gotten off my butt and started posting photos again. I promise promise promise I’ll update my France photos soon. But in the meantime, here’s some shots of my trip last weekend to Indian Creek and Moab with my friends Todd and Nanda.

-c

UPDATE: Oooh! If you click on the photo to the right, you can check out the photos I just added from the trip we all took to Maple Canyon just a couple of weeks ago! Man, how wonderful is the climbing here, when you can go pull hard on the cobbles of Maple one weekend, and glide up the silky cracks of the Canyonlands the next!

Quick pix….

lackhead — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:30:02 +0000

Gotta run…I’m late at the lab again and have like, 30 seconds before the machines shut off. In the meantime, here are some pictures that I’ve put up of my recent adventures.

Music: Stones, Ryan Adams, Radiohead, Michael Brecker, Ray LaMontagne, Yes, and the now-constantly-heard Tristan Prettyman

-c

A quick photo…

lackhead — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:13:33 +0000

Hey all- it is a later afternoon in Tours and I’m pretty tired, so I’m not going to say much. Instead I’m going to mosey home and fit in a quick run before dinner. However I do have a photo that I just uploaded from my trip to Château Chenonceau this past weekend. Great little visit- just a half hour’s train ride outside of town, and the weather was perfect!

Anyway, my running shoes are calling….gotta run (literally)!!

-c

ps- music of the day: Rage Against The Machine and Tristan Prettyman.

Here comes the sun…

lackhead — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:25:48 +0000

I mean that both metaphorically and physically. Not only did the rain finally break yesterday, but when I returned home my iPod finally showed up after being shipped from Utah. Yay! The first song out of the box was “Hip Hip Hooray” by Sneaky Sound System…not only did it fit the mood but it had been in my head for the last week on constant replay. Giveittome giveittome giveittome giveittome giveittome giveittome giveittome giveittome now! Huh. Don’t you know it’s what I need? There’s something very American about American music, and while that might sound trite and even tautological, there’s something very comforting in there somewhere. Kinda like my friend Edye said, that I smell like America. I doubt that holds anymore, but I so know what she was talking about. And it’s almost unimagineable how blazingly fresh Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed and Delivered” sounded this morning.

But before Stevie, before the sun graced us with its appearance, I managed to take in a game of spades with my Arabic friends. Now, this is a game I have played a bunch, but not quite like this. First off, the cards weren’t American, with each of the face cards having a name along the side as well as having different letters associated with them- the kings were ‘R’ for ‘Roi’, I assume, but I couldn’t make heads or tails of what the others meant. Plus the rules were different; it was basically boiled down to be as simple as possible, as each country had its own variations. And when I say ‘boiled down to be as simple as possible’ I really mean that the weird variations of whoever was dealing were kept in. I managed to lose quite spectacularly, but many laughs were had, while I struggled to get a sense of the rules through the broken French.

After that, I wondered home in the breaking sunshine to find the aforementioned iPod waiting on me, and given the good weather I headed out for my first run along the Loire. The interesting thing about running here is that while nobody will look at you on the street (you know they’re aware of your existance only because they will move out of the way so as not to run into you), every single jogger I passed looked directly at me and said a quick ‘bonjour’ as we went by each other. I also passed a sign that mentioned the local Centre Municipal des Sports and climbing facilities! I have their phone number now, so my weekend project is to figure out if there indeed is a climbing gym in town. Of course, I have to fit that in alongside the trip to see Château Chenonceau tomorrow, studying, and my homework which involves checking out one of the local galleries and answering some questions about what I find there. Who knew I’d be so dang busy here?

OH! And I have a few more photos copied up and available- just click on the photo here to go over to the gallery. So, I’m off to pick up to see if I can find some good chocolate before hooking up with my group; there is a veritable ton of chocolate around here, but mostly in the form of expensive chocolates or Nestlé. I have to say the Nestlé chocolate here is way better than the crap we get back in the states, but it isn’t my frou-frou Bonnat or Pralus that I’m looking for. You’d think that since they’re just a hundred kilometers away or so the streets would be overflowing with the latest from either of these places. Hmmm, I will definitely try to get over to Lyon to visit one of those artisans choclatiers. It might be difficult, as to take the TGV I’d have to go up to Paris and back down to Lyon. Ah, la vie c’est difficil!

Over and out y’all. ‘Til next time,

-c

Initial Photos

lackhead — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:51:18 +0000

OK, I’m running a bit late for class, so no time for useless ramblings. First photos are online. Yay!

-c

Trip Report: Gold Hill Mine

lackhead — Sat, 17 May 2008 21:35:06 +0000

Back in May, 2007, Chris Strong took Ethan and I to Gold Hill, Utah to explore an old mine. Shortly after this trip, the mine was sealed by the state as a safety measure, to help protect riff-raff like us who enjoy exploring. Oh well, such is the progress of humankind.

Ciao,

-c

Photos from a Northwest road trip, August, 2007

lackhead — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:55:53 +0000

I’ll do my best not to reference the fact that these photos are coming online in, uh, March of 2008 when they were taken some months prior to that. Promise.

As is fairly obvious from the title, these photos are from a road trip that Ethan and I took in August of 2007 out to Redwoods National Forest, and then up the cost through Eugene, Portland, Seattle, and eventually home. All in all we logged a few thousand miles of driving in just over a week, and few thousand kilo-courics of good times visiting with our friends along the way. To indicate the high degree of enjoyment we had, Ethan has said that he will consider going to college in Eugene, even though the skiing is not world-class there. I myself want to swim with the migrating salmon in Washington before I die; perhaps as my final act I can swim upstream, meet Angelina Jolie, spawn and then pass away in post-coital bliss. More likely I’d just get caught and turned into Canned Chad.

Anyway, enjoy the pics y’all!

-c