Moment of Triumph!

Last night I climbed a 5.11c/d. That’s one small step below the glorious 5.12. It was triumphant. I started the night with an easy 5.7 and progressed quickly through some tried and true 11a’s. My fingers were feeling strong and motivation was flowing, so I decided to challenge myself and attempted the 11d. It was not clean, I feel two or three times, but I reached the top. I am very proud.

Here’s a story from last weekend.

Jill and I were in the car on Saturday going to pick up Rick Richter. In the quest for wonderful music, Jill was scanning some radio stations when I heard the impossible to miss chords of Journey’s WHEEL IN THE SKY.
“WAIT WAIT,” I shouted concerned “That’s journey, go back go back.”
Jill rolled her eyes and switched it back. Sadly, it was the last chorus and a few seconds later the song ended. Just as Jill was about to change stations I heard a DJ mention that it was ‘double play day.’ I pushed her hand away from the radio just in time for THE GIRL CAN’T HELP IT.

Two journey songs! I was in heaven.

Jill changed the station at that song’s completion. Suddenly on the new station, I heard the tell-tale opening riff of LIGHTS. “More Journey!” I shouted as Jill scoffed. So we listened to that, and you know what? It was block weekend on radio station number two. We heard THREE more journey songs: ANYWAY YOU WANT IT, DON’T STOP BELIEVIN, and LOVIN’ TOUCHIN’ SQUEEZIN.

SIX journey songs on the radio on a single car ride. It was EPIC.

16 thoughts on “Moment of Triumph!

  • 11/8/2005 at 9:54 am
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    I’ve achieved such a feat before… i used “cassette tapes” and “compact disks” to cause the repetition of a single artist.

    Still, that’s pretty awesome.

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  • 11/8/2005 at 1:44 pm
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    Also I have a problem for Jon Abad to solve. I’ve started using reader.google.com to handle my rss needs. So I came to the site to post a comment and instead of the content i just read and the 4 posts that existed all of them read:

    Warning: preg_replace(): Unknown modifier ‘/’ in /homepages/3/d101901314/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/google-hilite.php on line 107

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    Make it not broke Jon.

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  • 11/8/2005 at 2:32 pm
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    There were funny the first time, back in the year 2003. I think.
    Happily, their funny freshness has not declined over time.

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  • 11/8/2005 at 2:58 pm
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    I think Google Reader is a piece of crap.

    Now that I’ve put that out of the way: Google Reader is adding something to the end of the requested url, which the google highlighting plugin is attempting to recognize as search items to highlight on the page.

    The problem is that when I log into Reader to see what its adding to its links, it pretends that its not adding anything. Suuuuspicious…

    I suppose that I could turn off Google-Hilite just for you and take away its benefits to everyone else… Interestingly, my feed links don’t have this problem as they’re run through Feedburner before hand… So that’s another option.

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  • 11/8/2005 at 3:44 pm
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    I forgot, Jon has moved from Apple Hating to Google Hating.

    Welcome to the new frontier of Jon Abad Hating!

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  • 11/8/2005 at 4:14 pm
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    or maybe, you can stop using some stupid thing. And just read the comments like a normal person.

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  • 11/8/2005 at 5:02 pm
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    In tribute to your amazing Journey radio story, I am playing “Girl Can’t Help It” on my computer at work right now.

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  • 11/8/2005 at 5:50 pm
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    First, have you tried Google Reader? Have you tried the competition?

    I trust Google about as far as I can throw it.

    I wouldn’t go as far as Google Hating, more like Google Wary.

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  • 11/8/2005 at 11:39 pm
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    While Google Reader is certainly lacking, it meets my needs well. I have 2 computers 25 miles apart that i like to read the same feeds on, this keeps track of what i have read regardless of where i read it. So unless you can tell me something else that will aggregate for me and keep track of what i’ve read it 2 locations that is better than reader please tell me. cause as far as i’m aware at the moment it is the app that meets my needs best.

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  • 11/9/2005 at 2:53 pm
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    You make it sound like its the only web based aggregator around.

    I use Newsgator Online, but that’s because I use FeedDemon on my laptop and it will sync to that.
    I used to use bloglines, that was quite capable.
    There’s a whole list of aggregators of different flavors at the wikipedia.

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