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Gene
climber
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 10, 2009 - 01:46am PT
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For me,
#1) I quit my corporate job on 12/12/91 and have been working at home ever since.
#2) 8 years roaming around overseas.
gm
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 10, 2009 - 01:53am PT
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hey there... say... this is easy for me: i tell jesus i love him every night and i thank him so very much that he keeps helping me whenever i feel i might do something stupid again...
i really DO need his help, and god is so good...
course, that doesn't mean, i got it all perfect now, but it means i'm keeping a right-good eye on things, and trying to steer and adjust my compass point to stay correct as possible, and at least, i'm being smarter than before i knew to thank god for his loving care upon me...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 10, 2009 - 01:55am PT
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hey there ... on more of a list that is easy for you all to understand...
smart thing i have done:
taught my grandkids that they have someone that loves them, so that they will have an extra stableness in their life...
enjoyed my kids and family, when i could, as now, they are too far away, and i can't, but--it makes one have no regrets, that one tried hard...
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Jan 10, 2009 - 03:26am PT
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Married this woman.....
Had children....
Bought my own home, went to college, quit smoking cigarettes, never started drinking alcohol, had parents that encouraged me to take chances and gave me the confidence and conviction to seek out my dreams and desires, chose to live in a healthy beautiful place, and have been smart enough to stay alive for 37 years of rock climbing.....
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JOEY.F
Social climber
sebastopol
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Jan 10, 2009 - 03:36am PT
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Love your smartness, folks
Dang, great lookers all, Todd!
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justthemaid
climber
Los Angeles
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Jan 10, 2009 - 02:31pm PT
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Took the money left over from dropping out of college and used it as a down payment on a house 11 years ogo when the prices were reasonable.
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TradIsGood
Chalkless climber
the Gunks end of the country
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Jan 10, 2009 - 05:03pm PT
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Sold a big house in 2005 and bought smaller.
Smarter still would have been to rent.
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
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Jan 10, 2009 - 06:08pm PT
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Never ever respond to the LEB.
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Teti
Trad climber
Phila, Pa.
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Jan 10, 2009 - 06:54pm PT
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Got out of the financial commitment w/ the ex and the huge house we owned (4000 sq ft $2500 a month)and built a 400 sq ft cabin in the woods on my cousins property. Rent you ask? All the firewood I can supply him. Seeing how I am a tree climber, thats not a problem.
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Jan 10, 2009 - 07:04pm PT
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Got married to Peggy. Had a child. Realized that I'm pretty much a happy idiot and accepted that fact.
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Jan 10, 2009 - 07:22pm PT
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Started climbing. At 41 years old...better late than never.
Adopted Teddy. Even though I went in thinking pound hounds were $35 and he had a mega markup($150), for being a puppy and SO CUTE!
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
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Jan 10, 2009 - 08:09pm PT
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Dig it, Happie! I strapped on a snowboard for the 1st time at 40........Holy Frick a Zee!
Look Out Below!
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rhyang
climber
SJC
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Jan 10, 2009 - 08:23pm PT
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Kept my health insurance paid up :)
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Jan 10, 2009 - 08:31pm PT
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"Realized that I'm pretty much a happy idiot and accepted that fact."
I need to accept that, too!
Also,
actually condescending, from my lofty eyrie as college sophmore to climb with that Obnoxious, snot nosed, barely out of High school kid, Mike Friedrichs. "We're the locals." - gimee a break, I thought,
What an amazing, Mature, fully faceted human being he grew to be thirty years later! Any of you who know him will concur. We've had an amazing friendship, on and off the rocks, through times sometimes too rocky to talk about here.
Little sh#t still climbs like a demon, too!
Thanks, Fred!
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JOEY.F
Social climber
sebastopol
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Jan 10, 2009 - 09:34pm PT
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Started Yoga about 6 months ago.
Started climbing when I was 50.
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Chaz
Trad climber
Boss Angeles
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Jan 10, 2009 - 11:04pm PT
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I quit spending beer money on underwear.
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Wonder
climber
WA
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Jan 10, 2009 - 11:16pm PT
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Started studying Buddhism. Tru story.
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MisterE
Trad climber
Raising Arizona
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Jan 10, 2009 - 11:37pm PT
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Not much, but the stretching thing, yeah - that.
The most important thing I have ever done is not an action
it was a decision
to always find the nectar of joy in my life.
Hummingbird Erik
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Beatrix Kiddo
Mountain climber
Littleton
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Jan 11, 2009 - 12:04am PT
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I was born!
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MisterE
Trad climber
Raising Arizona
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Jan 11, 2009 - 12:21am PT
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You can't just say that - there are existential considerations!
kiddoing
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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Jan 11, 2009 - 12:32am PT
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Keep my climbing ambitions in check and enjoy climbing with friends.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 11, 2009 - 01:40am PT
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Quit the life of crime when I met the wife. Never looked back.
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Anastasia
climber
Not here
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Jan 11, 2009 - 03:21am PT
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*Figured out that we all can be idiots. That is why I don't bother to hide my stupidity and I don't think less of anyone for doing the occasional stupid.
*Refused to allow a good samaritan to move a guy with a broken neck.
*I took my doctor's advice.
*Somehow managed to take a few fun trips, this included the one to Ouray with an ice climbing ST dude. Plus my trip with the beautiful Lynne! Oh, and I can't forget about seeing my grandmother again!
*Being lucky enough to have the honor of climbing with Cosmic! I had so much fun that it still makes me smile!
(Oh... And I miss L!)
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DanaB
climber
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Jan 11, 2009 - 03:05pm PT
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I stopped working full time in 1977.
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Hardluck
Social climber
N of Mexico, S of Sanity
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Jan 11, 2009 - 03:23pm PT
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Left the for-profit world to work in the non-profit sector in 2004!
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Jan 13, 2009 - 04:50pm PT
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It seems like everything I do. . .
Is the opposite of the heading. . .
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Jan 14, 2009 - 04:31pm PT
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Stayed true to my honey, Margy, for 26+ years.
Respect your woman guys!
The woman, not that handsome devil on the right.
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
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Jan 14, 2009 - 04:41pm PT
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Never done anything smart.
If I did, I'd be rich, instead of just good lookin'.
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Jan 14, 2009 - 05:01pm PT
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Pretty much what Todd said (although the wife, who was my former climbing partner, pretty much put the brakes on most of my climbing). That and leaving the corporate world to work for myself, which keeps me just as busy but far happier.
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Jan 14, 2009 - 05:14pm PT
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Became a Commodity Broker in the mid seventies, learned to trade both bull and bear markets. Most importantly, learned to "sell short", and used that methodology to my best trading year ever the past 12 months by selling short the Dow, S&P, and Nasdaq.
PS, stay short, we are going much lower.
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up2top
Big Wall climber
Phoenix, AZ
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Jan 14, 2009 - 06:01pm PT
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Only two I can think of:
- Stayed in rehab back in '88 instead of fleeing like I really wanted to. 20+ years later -- still sober. I thank God for every day.
- After 36 years of stubborn bachelorhood I got married and eventually relented about the whole "kids" thing. I had no idea what I was missing.
Ed
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