Did a nice road trip down the Oregon coast. My friends bailed 50m from the summit of mount hood, so I stood on the peak alone before skiing from peak to base. Three consecutive weekends in squeamish resulted in a nice start to the climbing season: lunch on the top of split pillar halfway up the grand wall with dema, lunch on bellygood lunch after a morning on stairway to heaven with tim dema and new room mate nate. Solid leads on some 9s and easy 10s. No lead falls yet for the season. Really loving it.
Back to the office I'm working on a tool which drives a novel quality process for web ui testing. Pretty interesting and I had a pretty intense couple weeks at the keys. I got an iPad, and a macbook and am starting to dev for the app store. Two feet always. Nice to get the brain going again.
New house is the best show in town right now. Four roomies: performing artists, musicians, photographers - beautiful people all around. "take it leave it Tuesdays" are our weekly dinner party and jam session. Means I'm playing with the keyboard again with aspirations of harmonica.
Coming up is a 24 pitch climb in the north cascades with shann. Approach includes a river crossing which I'm super psyched about doing. I'm psyched about alpine style climbing for this summer. Going to summit baker on skis soon as part of our "mountain a month" preparation for Aconcagua in December.
Work keeps me toiling over cool problems on most days and I get outside when i can. It's not Africa, but i'm still finding myself having fun every once in a while by accident.
Written from my iPad.
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