At the climbing gym, there is a contraption that allows you to do pull ups with assistance.   It's a beast of a machine that allows you to stand on a movable platform, which levers weight.  When I first started climbing, I'm not sure where I was at.  I wasn't looking at the machines, I was looking at the colorful rocks on the wall.  At some point ( Read more... )

Wow, what a season. While Squaw is tentatively set to close on May 10th, I'm hanging up my skis now. The untenable tide of weekend hang out requests has come full rush and cannot be resisted any longer. So I resign myself to the fact that instead of skiing, people want to be doing other things. Like camping. Sweet.

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I'm no gym rat, but I do like exercise.  And nothing futhers this drive than an unlimted pass.  You'll have noticed that I've been skiing a lot recently thanks to Robert and Julia (and getting a Squaw season pass with them), but I also joined Planet Granite this month.  It felt weird to me being active for 7 straight hours on the weekends and then ( Read more... )

Everytime I go to the SF Conservatory, I wonder why I don't go more often. Tonight, I saw a fantastic cello recital. Cello is my favorite instrument, even though I cannot play it myself. Today the student, Jerry Lui, performed works I had never heard before. Two were Chinese, the rest were modern. As in Metallica transposed for the cello and ( Read more... )

I have a, what some may consider, neurosis of green practices, but I'd like to take this time to quickly explain just one.  Navy showers.  According to Wiki the steps of a Navy showers are as follows:
"1. Turn on the water
2. Immediately wet the body
3. Turn off the water
4. Soap up and scrub
5. Turn the water back on and rinse off the soap
6. Turn off ( Read more... )

Once in a while I'll do a book review. Actually, this may have occurred only twice before in this entire journal, but today I've finished a book I'd like to share with you all. By author A.J. Jacobs, it's a funny but introspective book where he tries to follow all of the Bible's commandments for a year. That's 731 of them, not the OG 10 ( Read more... )

To Whom It May Concern ( Read more... )

I'm going skiing this weekend!!! It'll be my first time up this season, and it's my favorite sport these days, with endless variation (tree skiing, jumping, moguls, groomers) and challenge (tree skiing, jumping, moguls).
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The San Francisco Airport is about 2 miles from caltrain, so one would think public transportation would be a viable and thrifty method to get between the two. One would be sorely mistaken ( Read more... )

Under the dim light of my monitor and sunrise, I'd like to take this time to elaborate on my love of sunsets. At UCSD, I had the luxury of seeing sunsets any time I wanted. Our dorm room suite view looked like this.
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