The climbing gear has returned to the shelves in the back room. :(

Home again, after a good week of climbing in Squamish. Due to weather and scheduling issues, I climbed 6 days in a row, and was very tired by the end of it. Luckily, it actually rained on day 7, so we saw spawning and dead salmon, packed up, relaxed, drove back to Vancouver, and had good sushi.

YOW -> YVR, then on to Squamish.

Not nearly as many of these posts any more. :(

This trip is climbing, to nobody's shock or surprise.

That was a lovely Canada-day long weekend(ish) at the cottage. Thank you everyone who joined me and made it a good time. And, especially, thank you weather for presenting us with an awesome weekend of weather for all our cottage activities.

A classic BDG repair job:

Finally a weekend with a solid forecast of two days of climbing weather! Today, got out for a light day at Lac Sam, hitting Pink Floyd Wall and Gully Wall with Bart.

Tomorrow, aiming for Panorama/Bowman with a bit bigger crew.

I linked somebody to Digger (diggercomic.com) today, and I had to carefully not click through and read the first couple pages as I KNOW that's how an accidental archive binge starts.

Lovely afternoon to be out climbing at Lac Sam!

Ok, that was an acceptable election result.

I will not obsessively refresh the election results. I will not obsessively refresh the election results.

I wonder if Carleton is going to be THE last riding to actually report results? Cause they've got a LONG (I understand about a meter long) night ahead of them counting ballots.

YOW -> YYZ -> FRA -> MRS.

A week+ of climbing near Marseilles.

Oops, I just bought 38 ebooks. Do I need 38 more ebooks? No. But... the bundle was so sweet looking!

Ok, that's a lot of snow. It can stop now. At least for a bit.

Because sometimes a Canadian has to Canadian:

Tonight's experiment:
1 (blanco) tequila : 2/3 (cold) decaf coffee : 2/3 creme de cacao : 1/2 simple syrup. Shaken with ice.

Perhaps I might call it "The Mexican Connection".

Reasonably tasty.

For a number of years now I've been targeting a reading rate of 1 book a week over the year, and recording what I read.

This year (2024), I read 55 books, which sounds like nicely exceeding my goal, until I compare to last year's 87 books.

Still mostly not Cis/Straigh/Whilte/Male authors.