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Oh, yeah. There was this time I was pinned down by this guy that played left tackle for varsity... Well, at least he used to before he was a vampire... Anyway, he had this really, really thick neck, and all I had was a little, little Exact-O knife ... You're not loving this story.

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deborah grabien - Mar 26, 2004 9:10:26 am PST #3783 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

AmyLiz, the thing about Krakauer's book is that he was, as the phrase goes, on his knees to the event. It begins early on, before the disaster, when he's flying over the Himalayas and looks down and they're just under him. And he suddenly realises, he's about to try and walk up to the cruising altitude of a 737. He lays no blame, although it's obvious he feels the professionals, like Anatoli Boukreev, should have known better and done more.

It's really an uncanny book. And following Into Thin Air by reading Anatoli Boukreev's The Climb, another look at the same events, it staggering. Also heartbreaking; Boukreev died in an avanlance on Annapurna in 1997.

Why yes, I am a high altitude climbing freak. Weird, I know.

AmyLiz, I'll send it along, as soon as I can get back on the office computer; all my stuff is on that hard drive, and even with the d-link I can't attach it.

Kessie - Mar 26, 2004 10:20:06 am PST #3784 of 10001
The thing about life is :You can rehearse it all you want, But nobody else ever sticks to the script. So why bother?

erika: resent! tried another email addy this time - hope it´ll work! Oh btw if there is something you want to know in german just tell me and i´ll tell you!

erikaj - Mar 26, 2004 10:33:59 am PST #3785 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

Got it this time...sometimes my spam filter is overzealous. I'll start tomorrow probably.

Kessie - Mar 26, 2004 11:07:37 am PST #3786 of 10001
The thing about life is :You can rehearse it all you want, But nobody else ever sticks to the script. So why bother?

Have your time .. still have to write three papers for university anyway *sigh* So it will take a while till I can write on on my projects.

Anne W. - Mar 26, 2004 2:00:10 pm PST #3787 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Deb, send away! The length isn't a bother.

deborah grabien - Mar 26, 2004 2:03:33 pm PST #3788 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Anne, will do, but I need to do it once Nic is off the main computer. I can access my stuff and work on it through the wireless setup, but for some reason, none of my email programs have attachment functions that recognise the interoffice link.

Buggeration.

Anne W. - Mar 26, 2004 2:10:09 pm PST #3789 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

No hurry, Deb. I'm currently "busy" making rubber ducky icons for my livejournal account.

Susan W. - Mar 26, 2004 3:16:32 pm PST #3790 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Way back in April or May of last year, I submitted a little devotional meditation to one of the Christian magazines that publishes such things. In July, I got a postcard saying they were holding it for further consideration. Today, I got a letter saying they'd accepted it.

They pay on publication.

It's scheduled to run in the March/April 2005 issue.

I guess that'll be a first birthday present for the Player....

Betsy HP - Mar 26, 2004 3:18:29 pm PST #3791 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

I started to say hot DAMN, but decided that was inappropriate in context.

How wonderful, Susan! HOoray!

deborah grabien - Mar 26, 2004 3:19:44 pm PST #3792 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

I'll say it - hot DAMN!

Susan, you can start a trust fund with it. Baby steps!

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