December 2011
4 posts
Thing #69: Cure meat
I originally had visions of curing my own guanciale, but Eric found out about gravlax and we have seriously been talking about curing our own gravlax for nearly a year now. Eric is… so Norwegian it is like some kind of joke. And I hail from northern Minnesota where everyone is very Lutheran and therefore everyone voluntarily suffers through Minnesota winters and annual lutefisk dinners...
Dec 27th
Not a Thing: Climb the Tooth
Back in July, I was a little disappointed that I got rained out of climbing a mountain rather charmingly named The Tooth. The Tooth is an extraordinarily popular climb during the summer, since it’s a good beginner multi-pitch route close to Seattle. It is a lot less popular in December. It’s also a little more exciting in December! Well, I am pretty excited, anyway. A lot of my...
Dec 14th
Thing #8: Learn to ski
Let’s go ahead and say this one is IN PROGRESS.
Dec 13th
Thing #98: Start a retirement fund
As mentioned previously, I moved to a place with cheap rent to free up some cash to help achieve other goals, both things and not-a-things. Here. Here is the most boring of all of those goals. THING #98: DONE. (21/101)
Dec 7th