++ JOKE OF THE DAY

At Heathrow Airport, an individual, later discovered to be a public school teacher, was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a compass, a protractor and a calculator. Authorities believe he is a member of the notorious al-Gebra movement. He is being charged with carrying weapons of math instruction. ++

++ LAST NIGHT AT the climbing gym spewed jokes/riddles of the night over the loudspeaker. the best (only) five jokes/riddles of the night of...

1) - "you have a wine bottle and it is secured with tape. you do not have a corkscrew, a knife, or anything sharp to cut the tape. how do you indulge yourself with a libation of wine?"
2) - "charlie chromehead went walking without a hat, umbrella, newspaper, or rainjacket. he did not stop under any tree or canopy, yet he his hair did not get wet. how is this possible?"
3) - "you now have 3 apples and you take away 2 apples. how many apples do you have now?"
4) - "mr. funk and charlie are playing chess. both of them has won 7 games, yet there were no ties, forfeits, or stalemates. how is this possible?"
5) - "which family member does not belong in this group and why: father, uncle, sister, cousin, brother, aunt."

prizes to the first person to answer all five questions correctly. tag it. (on your right).

(and yes i know the correct answers. and yes i was the first to answer one of them last night. and yes i got a prize. it was a bouncy ball with a purple plastic toy octopus in the middle, which i proceeded to test out on the concrete last night and promptly lose. so no not to worry, you will not get a bouncy ball with a purple plastic toy octopus in the middle as a prize. it will be much cheaper than that.)

I'M ONLY EVIL. thank goodness. to be truly evil would be bad i'm thinking. probably real bad.

woohoo! i appear to have added RSS to my blog! i know only that it lets me do some more fancy archiving stuff and searching stuff. and that it makes my blog look legit now. (which i'm not, i could still be called a poser) but yay, go me! now if only more people besides me looked at it i might consider it a success! only in time...++++

++ POPSCICLES ON A HOT DAY, ok not hot for the rest of the united states, but hot for seattle and hot for my office, which sits up on the third floor of an old car dealership, which has no air conditioning and minimal cross ventilation, means popscicles on the company! so yummy and cold. sailing was fun yesterday. i didn't much do anything other than free-load a ride around lake union for the entire three and a half hours we were out on the boat. no wait, i take that back. i got to go spot for half of the race. aka, sit out on the front ofthe boat and make sure we don't hit any other boats, hence the name "duck dodge". its actually really sweet, the race. there are about 70 boats racing around this little bay and everyone is trying to be as fast as they can without hitting anyone else. luckily we only managed to barely scrape by a boat. nothing major. i didn't see anyone ram into another boat either. i did however see a guy who had transformed his kayak and put a bicycle contraption strapped to the kayak. we were racing around and he was riding his bicycle...on water! it was amazing! and what really made it was on the front of his bike/kayak/contraption, there was a milk crate and his dog was riding in it! picture middle of the lake. 70 boats whizzing around left and right, in and out, between each other, a guy on a bicycle with his dog in it, many other people in kayaks and canoes and then this little float barge, maybe no bigger than 8'x12' wide, with four people sitting on chairs around a table eating dinner by candlelight! amazing! the best part was the float had a gas burner underneath the table so everyone's legs would stay warm. there was a tablecloth on the table, there was vase with a flower on the table, there was a little makeshift grill and they were sitting there floating around eating dinner! oh yeah and everyone is rich...obviously otherwise they wouldn't be out there i suppose. but some of the boats are geogeous! dave's boat was about 45 feet long and he says it could hold as many as 30 people. huge. oh and to get to the race on lake union (which is really a small bay) we had to go under a bridge which had to raise for us to fit under. we tooted our air horn and up went the bridge. pretty spiffy. next week i hear is a costume party for duck dodge. i think everyone will be clothed in disco wear, racing around a lake! hilarious! ++

++ THE BEST THING about spilling coffee on yoruself is that you smell like coffee for the rest of the day. however, the bad thing about spilling coffee on yourself is you have spilled coffee on yourself. today i managed not only to spill coffee on myself, but that which coffee which fell from my glass, knocked off of my desk, by my hand, which did not land on me and my clothes, spilled into my bag, which is waterproof, which is good if the liquid substance lands on the outside of the bag, however bad and doubly bad if the liquid lands inside your bag, for the liquid does not soak through. it spills in the bag, it stays in the bag, and it soaks everything in the bag. and then it smells like coffee for the rest of the day. ++

++ I'M A BIT BURNED, from this weekend. heather is past fire engine red and borders on the crimson red, the only difference being she is in seering pain and i'm just darker now. the perks (one of some) of being asian. smith was hot. a long drive (6 hours) but worth it. we slept in the car (again) on friday night after we got there, because we wer eboth too tired to pitch the tent. i bought lots of trad climbing gear (because i can't afford it, so i did) abd didn't use it. but i will soon. heather did some leading on sport, which was awesome! she was too scared at first to lead, but she just needed some good easy warm-up routes to get going and then it was off to the races. half of it is fear. its not that either of us can't climb 5.9. we are just too pansy of falling, so we get wussy. and really wussy, so much so that 5.6 and 5.7 seem scary. heather did her first multi-pitch route, granted it was a sport climb, but still, multi-pitch and it was very cool. we ticked off five climbs in a day and a half, which now that i think about it doesn't sound like much. but it was plenty to make me good and tired.

upcoming schedule:
.today-climbing (stone gardens)
.tuesday-sailing (duck dodge)
.wednesday-climbing (stone gardens)
.thursday-archichoke/enginerd volleball league (thursday group. r1 schedule)
.friday-i don't know yet!
.saturday-REI free kayak demo
.sunday-climbing at leavenworth? ++