February 2012
6 posts
Thing #32: Visit my parents in Florida
My parents bought a house in Florida well over a year ago. I have been saving the Florida vacation for the time when mere existence in Seattle becomes an unbearable trial. That time is February. Five days in Florida visiting my parents along with my brother, here we go!
My brother is a fun person who likes the same fun I do and when we get together in the same place we have a pretty good time...
Not a Thing: Climb the Zipper
Emily and I were both suffering from upper respiratory infections last weekend, but the weather was beautiful and we were also suffering from cabin fever after mostly taking January off from climbing, and so we headed off to CLIMB A THING. Namely, Lane Peak. Namely, the Zipper, which is a steep little couloir up the north face of the mountain, right about here:
Emily and I have been wanting...
Thing #21: Do 25 push-ups
I was at a party some years ago, and someone mentioned an article they’d read earlier in the day about how many push-ups the average person ought to be able to do. The article mentions that a 40-year-old woman in good health should be able to do 16 push-ups, a fact at which all of us marveled, it seemed so unreasonably ambitious. Oh, except me. I didn’t marvel. I scoffed. And then in a...
Thing #43: Read Faith in a Seed
A favorite English teacher gave me this book when I graduated from high school, and he told me that he was reminded of me whenever he read Thoreau. What little Thoreau I’d been required to read in high school I’d found painfully boring, and seventeen-year-old me certainly didn’t know what to make of such a weighty pronouncement anyway. And so I toted this book and all of its...
Thing #75: Participate in Hourly Comic Day - Part...
Man, I did not even try to make today interesting for you. Are you ready for the thrilling conclusion to a completely average Wednesday? I’m going to bed because I couldn’t even stay awake to watch a movie, that’s how boring today turned out to be.
Thing #75: Participate in Hourly Comic Day - Part...
I initially declined to participate in Hourly Comic Day this year because my weekdays are a little underwhelmingly boring, thanks to my standard-issue office job. But I guess that is the point of Hourly Comics Day, right? The whole “day in the life” aspect, plus bringing a tiny bit of humor to really mundane details? So I started frantically drawing to catch up while on my lunch break...