We needed an update, maybe later i can do a more thourough job.  For now, i just wanted to mention a few things, if not belatedly, that needed be mentioned.

First and foremost, congratulations Kyle and Nicola on your middle-nameless but well loved new daughter.  Haily ? (stewart) Grey is one lucky child.

For the three or so of you who read this, Beth and I will have been married 1 year on Nov 26.  That means that on Dec 2 it will be the one year anniversary of Beth and I spending our first Friday night together in a two-bedroom apt. in Denver with Rob, Carissa, Sam and Chauncy.  Let me tell you, that is A LOT funnier now than it was then.

Also potentially look for this blog to end and a new one begin.  I haven't decided yet, it just seems like all these new chapters in my life may need a new book.

uber-secret bouldering at Citadel (?????, AL)

  Scott and I took a little backwoods trip down a a super secret local area in Bama' yesterday.  There was a lot of good rock there, but nothing stood out as much as this one problem.  Here's some pics of one of the most well kept secrets in Alabama.

Keeping LRC Free

During my time in Chattanooga, the place that I have grown to enjoy the most has been LRC.  This beautiful boulderfield (a gem in any area) has shared parking lots, paths and space with the Montlake Golf Club and the Montlake community, and for several years now, due to cooperation on both sides, has remained free of charge to local climbers.  Amazingly enough this system has worked, and both communities have thrived.  The climbers have respected the land, coming out in force for trail days and competitions to support local access.  The golfers have respected out natural right to enjoy the beauty of the earth and have regarded the climbers with a certain kind of gentle indiffernce if not curious enjoyment. 

And then someone at SouthEastern Climbers had this great idea.  Lets fix this system!

The same system that has been a model over the last few years for access projects across the country.

The same system that has not merely worked, but has been such a beautiful example of what can be accomplished when cooperation is everyones goal.

So now they are going to fix this system; the idiom that fits this situation best is so elementary, no one can see this?  The SEC has met, and it will soon cost either $5 a day or $150 a year to enjoy LRC, and to be honest, I would have no problem paying the land owner that much or more to enjoy this premium boulderfield.  The operative entity here is "The Land Owner", because that is not who climbers will be shelling out cash to this winter.  And that's the problem.

Climbers will be paying their money on line.  They will be using paypal to send their funds directly to the SEC...by the way, the SEC is an orginization of local climbers whose sole devotion is allegedly to be keeping southeastern climbing access free...the SEC will be using these funds to ______?  That's right, we don't know because last week when we talked to the landowner he confirmed that the money was indeed going to SEC and not, in fact, to the golf course as local climbers had been lead to believe. 

So SEC has decided to fix the problem that never existed.  They have stirred up resentment in the climbing community against the golfers for being selfish, when in fact it was those climbers that we felt most able to trust that have been taken away with their greed.  It is not the students from Appalachin State who come down on weekends in the winter nor our friends from the Pacific Northwest who travel down in spring whom this hurts.  No, where it hurts the most is close to home.  In the southeast. 

So the happy, friendly relationship that existed has been destroyed by SouthEastern Climbers for all southeastern climbers.  Isn't that ironic.

Currently Listening Outside Looking In: The Best Of Gin Blossoms By The Gin Blossoms Mrs. Rita see related

New Roof Over The Old Head

So I am writing for the first time ever from the new place that Beth and I just moved into...drumroll please: TODAY!!!!

I like it.  The walls are a modern green and a soft maroon.  Much more relaxing than white.  Maybe pics will follow, but no guarantees. 

OK, I'm going to bed.

It must be the adderol

Yeah, so 2 posts in as many days!  What can I say, Steven D. picked up my shift for tomorrow, so I have the day off.  Amazing.  In fact, I am relatively unsure that I actually know what the phrase "day off" means, furthermore, I am worried that I am not going to know what to do.  I guess that's why I'm still up, tomorrow is the first day in an excesively long time that I don't HAVE to be somewhere in the am.  I guess I'll probably climb, and I do have a soccer game with my rec team at the YMCA at 1:30 pm.  I give it a 50/50 chance of me being awake early enough to make it. 

In the climbing world (also known as the world I wish I could be in all the time) I worked Super Mario for a bit tonight.  If the sun would have just stayed out 20 minutes longer I would have sent it, instead I left disappointed.  It's real hard to get going again climbing after 5 months on the couch with a broken leg, but Beth went with me tonight, so it was one of the best times in recent memory.  (any one who is reading this knows me well enough to have read between the lines and is currently laughing their butt off at the thought of me, without my shirt on, trying to show off to impress a woman that already loved me enough to marry me [and even more impressively hasn't left me yet ;)])  I'll post some Mario pics later, I gotta get Scott to put them on a disk and give them to me, and let me tell you something about Scott.  Scott is a full time climber who goes to school (occasionally) and works just enough to pay for him to climb (knowing that waiting tables isn't a career job for him, whereas climbing probably will be).  I say that to say this.  The odds of me getting those pictures from him to post any time within the next 3 years is pretty low. 

On the homefront, Beth and I are in the process of moving to a new apartment and I am just amazed at how much crap we have accumulated in less than a year of marraige.  3 summers ago I could fit everything I owned into my car and still have enough room to sleep comfortably in it (for about a month).  Now, I feel like I'd be lucky to fit all of our stuff into a semi-truck.  A good majority of it I would like to pack in to a garbage truck, but I never realozed before I got married that any object (reciepts, notes, clothes, empty coke cans {ok I made the last one up} that enters our house has sentimental value. 

On the work front, it looks like my schedule is changing, and for the better.  I got a job offer from a Semi-Fine dining restaurant called Porters (a 6oz Filet Mignon is $52.99 by itself.  If you want a potatoe with that it's an additional 7.99.  A glass of water, yeah, a buck 99) and I used that as leverage to help me out at Logans.  It looks as if I will be working Monday and Tuesday PM (5-11) in the kitchen at $9.50 and hour and waiting tables Thursday and Friday Pm and  double on Saturday.  That my friends is what I call optimum efficency.  I get 4 out of the 5 money shifts (the only one I am missing is Sunday morning, and the number of tables you have to turn on Sundays to make any money isn't really worth it)...

I interrupt this entry to give a quick plug for any christians reading my blog.  The biggest obstacle standing between most of my co-workers and Christianity is christians.  Here is the deal, if you are a Christian and you are going to go out to eat do the rest of us a favor, and unless you are going to tip at least 20%, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE DO NOT TELL YOUR WAITER THAT YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN.  If you want to be a jack-ass and tip the waiter 10% thats fine, but PLEASE DON'T LEAVE A TRACT.  In fact, if you are going to tip like crap save God the trouble of having to fix your mistakes later and just tell your waiter that you are an athiest. 

...and when it is slow during the week I get paid hourly instead of having to grind out a Monday morning serving shift for 12 bucks. 

On the marraige front, Beth and I are doing very well.  I have to be honest, there has been some acclimation time to being married, but more in more we seem to be in perfect sync with each other, and we grow to understand and love each other more every day. 

So i guess that about covers my life, with the exception of school, and unless I am there or doing homework I pretty much just try not to think about it.