RANT: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk

So I just finished reading this book. I did enjoy it. But that is not why I am wrighting this........there is an awesome opening to a Chapter that really did it for me. So I am going to try and re:type it.....most likly butchering it along the was in a vocbulary spelling sense......but. I'll do my best. Copy-wrighting is hard for me.

"I consider myself to be enormously gifted with good fortune, but accidents do happen. Annually in this nation, approximately sixteen thousand people are murdered. During the same period of time, approximately forty-three thousand die in motor-vehicle accidents.

Every time I operate a motor vehicle, all of what I treasure can be taken. Stolen in an instant without due process. When you're aboard a motor vehicle, death passes within a finger's length every few moments. Anytime a vehicle passes mine in the oncoming lanes, I could be subjected to torture more violent and painful than anything the world's dictators would ever stoop to inflict. Perhaps another driver has eaten nothing but hamburgers his entire life, and as his car approaches mine on the freeway, his clogged heart fails. Blind with pain, he clutches his seizing chest. His automobile veers to one side, colloding with mine, and forcing me into another car, a gasoline tanker truck, a guardrail, over a cliff.

"Despite my lifetime of declining rich desserts, my evenings spent jogging, regardless of all my careful moderation and self-discipline–I'm trapped, wadded inside a shell of steel and aluminum. My body, violated in countless placed by fragments of broken glass. My low-cholesterol blood rushes to abandon me in hot, leaping spurts.

Despite all my care, the heart-attack victim and I will both be just as dead."

-RANT (pg 171)

AFTER THESE MESSAGES, WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK!

Will post soon.......but until then...

.....check out my AWESOME goat hat!

Climbing and Cake art.

So I have been bad about this blogging thing since my life has gotten a little busy. But here is a small snippit of things. I have been out and about, climbing, biking, and making CAKE ART! ha ha.



`mostly I have been climbing up in Idyllwild. The rock there is nice, tho the temps have been a bit warm. But that is not saying much, I DO live in So.Cal. Which is....well..... a desert. Hot, kinda dry, and no clouds or rain in sight.



Mostly, I just try and stay cool. The house has been quiet since Drew has been out on the ship, playing in Hawaii, and climbing and cycling in the near ideal weather on that island in the Pacific. And here I thought Navy life would be crap. I guess there are some perks eh? But I think he might be back on the ship now.




I had dinner at a friends house, no one was thrilled with the strange Green Tea cake that was achieved at RANCH 99, a asain supermarket.......so I built random shapes out of it. At least the frosting was tasty.



Also, I got inspired to make large sofa art. to replace other stuff that was on the wall that neither Drew nor I really liked.

Dino Me

I want to be an army of me, in this outfit. Storming the castels, pushin the buttons, pulling the leavers. Making the fires "better." Like hundres of me.

Those of high rank (or those that took them from other me's) Would have mega-phones....shouting things like.....oh I dont know.....

"TIE YOUR SHOELACES!"
or
"EAT KITTENS"

"TROUT"

Oh such battle we will have, if only we can keep the attentionspan togeth long enough to compleat a mission....it could be great!

Nature wants me to eat moldy strawberries.....

So.......i bought a big flat of berries at Costco....you know....a COSTCO size of berries

...natrually....I try as I might, I couldn't eat them fast enough....
they began to turn.

So I thought.....I will put the musy molds ones in the trash and the good oned in the freezer for smoothies.
...I began to cut the tops off.....and discovered something that I have known a long time....
the molding ones taste great!

damn nature....it wants me to eat the moldy berries.....
.....and

i do

Got home from the hills and played croquet and tug of war, badmittion, and stuff with my WFR instructor.....something about being bound up in a thermo wrap makes for the beginning of friendship? I duh'know. Mabey....ha ha

No really, I live here....

So, I just got back from a wilderness First Responder (WFR) course.....tought in Idyllwild, CA. it was GREAT. The class was from the 3rd through the 11th of May, and then chris and I stayed on to climb a bit in the awesome area that is up there. I had a great time and learnd all kinds of nifty stuff.



There's no dolphins in the ocean.....just banana sharks and bushes....

.......and then they wrapped my up and shipped me home.....no really. Okay , not REALLY, I was a demo for a thermal wrap for people going into hypothermia....and man was it nice and warm there.....it was like a heat rock but better!