Why I Quit Rock Climbing
I was a dedicated rock climber and a sometime ice climber all through the 1980s. I tried to go climbing every weekend, and every holiday.
Here’s why I quit climbing.
I was a dedicated rock climber and a sometime ice climber all through the 1980s. I tried to go climbing every weekend, and every holiday.
Here’s why I quit climbing.
Sometime when I was in 7th grade, at Ophelia Parrish Junior High school, a couple of guys that I knew showed me Northeast Missouri State University’s teletypes.
I’ve been on jury duty 3 times, once spring of 1988, another time in 2016, and my favorite, Monday, February 25, 2002.
Here’s an incredible cover of Steely Dan’s My Old School, the enigmatic jazz/rock song from 1973. Happy 50th.
For some reason this winter, I’ve wanted some experiences from my past just one more time.
I believe this is the picture that got me interested in dinosaurs, and from dinosaurs, I became interested in paleontology.
For several years, 2007-2018 perhaps, I would answer any call that reached my cellphone. I wanted to understand the scams, I wanted to know how such hollow, bullshit constructs worked.
My mom told me a story about going to the circus when she was a kid.
She was very excited, because one of the acts was a Trained Rhino!
Summer, 2019, before the pandemic.
I was working in a “open plan” office, albeit a very pleasant one in downtown Denver.