Aaron's Status

7:16 pm

Lead class

Finally, finally, after weeks of runarounds and rescheduling, my friend and I had our first lead class at our gym on Tuesday night. It was a really good experience and I have a very clear sense now of how challenging lead climbing is. I’m looking forward to doing more practice.

My back is still not 100% though, so I’m trying to be really ginger with it and get back to full functionality by Sunday, which is the next time I will climb.

Meanwhile, a climber that we don’t know very badly injured himself in an accident out on a local crag and the news made the rounds. I think he was sport climbing, so that’s a reminder of how important it is to concentrate on safety.

Podcasting

I recorded another podcast conversation this morning with my coach friend and I think it went pretty well. This is probably at least the fourth one that we’ve recorded. We still have no title. I think we’re starting to figure out what kinds of topics are working so a title will probably emerge from that at some point.

It’s been nice to have a little collaborative side project.

Christmas!

We finally put up the tree today and decorated it. While tidying the kitchen earlier I discovered that we still had this unopened bag of cannabis-infused hot chocolate mix, so I made us a couple mugs of that stuff and we listened to Mannheim Steamroller while setting up the tree.

Our tree-topper is, naturally, a sta—no, it’s actually Deep Space 9, the space station. I found a model somewhere and 3d printed it, but it’s kind of warped and it might be time to try again with my much nicer printers.

And more!

I kind of can’t believe it’s Wednesday night already. I feel like the week is flying by, even though my work days have been pretty intense (by the standards of my very relaxed job).

Looking forward to a hopefully longer night’s sleep tonight. Ta for now.