Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Caffeine Reduces Pain During Exercise, Study Shows

and now I have another reason to drink more. Yay.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Worth remembering...

"If your prayer is not enticing you outside your comfort zones, if your Christ is not an occasional 'threat', you probably need to do some growing up and learning to love."
(Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs)

h/t Mike Todd's Blog

Friday, March 27, 2009

Thursday, March 26, 2009

I want...

in shape for this...

Mount Raineer

in fact....i plan to make it so...

photo from Luke Hampton on Flickr

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Went Skiing today....

as usual. it rocked.

photo by FunResearcher at flicker.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Think I can use this next week on my proff?

Thursday, March 19, 2009

What do we do on a climbing trip?

We are avid car campers....now don't get me wrong...I love a tent. I love sleeping in a tent and waking up to the sun through nylon walls. But, our 4Runner rocks...and we have a sleeping deck with storage compartments underneath. So, if we are arriving late....we just park and go to sleep. So easy. On this trip, me and a buddy who are both over 6 feet tall, were perfectly comfortable with enough space for both of us.

Waking up is always fun....when you realize that you have a day of climbing ahead of you. I usually sleep pretty well, on this night, I woke up quite a few times. Oh well.

Climbing on dry basalt is always fun. The arrets are always quite aesthetic.

We end the day by doing a final rappel and begin to start to think about driving home. There is always mixed feelings about this. In one sense, the body is tired and you have had your fill of adventure. In another sense, the heart says...."I don't want it to be over!"

Then comes the walk back to the car. Can you see our 4Runner? Follow the road till your eye is level with the large rock feature on the right. Its in the middle of the bare spot. That's our ticket home.

The drive home is always filled with a variety of emotions: gratitude, love, peace, a tired mind, and a hungry stomach. So, as a tradition...we always try to end with:

It always makes our stomach hurt (I really don't think that stuff is actually meat)...and they usually mess up our order somehow...but we are committed customers none the less.

The End.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Rockclimbing - Frenchman Coulee

Raining in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Dry in Vantage, Washington, U.S.A

REALITY: We only have 26 hours -

OBJECTIVE: Leave 7:30pm on the 16th - sleep in the 4runner - climb - return home by 9:30pm on the 17th

REALITY: 874 km later (round trip) and 35 bucks in gas:

26 hours of adventure
26 hours of brotherhood
26 hours of sabbath rest

Monday, March 16, 2009

Currently dreaming of

crack climbing

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Should painful memories be erased?

Joseph Hall
Health Reporter

Something horrible happens. A child is lost. A bomb goes off. A car goes out of control.

And deep in the brain, in the lateral amygdala region, a scattered set of neurons come to life and begin to vibrate with fear.

Through an ingenious set of experiments, a group of researchers at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children have not only located these terror-laden brain cells in mice, but erased them – along with the frightening memories they stored.

While our imaginations have long been captivated by the idea of altering memory – to sinister effect in George Orwell's 1984 and poignantly in the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – this research suggests a more therapeutic use.

The study, which appears today in the journal Science, may hold out the hope that terrifying memories one day might be erased before they can fester into such conditions as post-traumatic stress disorder.

Friday, March 13, 2009

This website....

ROCKS!

Congrats to the Rios'

For a new baby boy!

Moses Root Rios

Thursday, March 12, 2009

I want one

Find it here

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Winter Climbing

We went to the hills yesterday for some winter climbing.

Temps: 0c
Sky: blue
Wind: breezy
Fun? oh yea...

Going climbing

Really cold

Fun

Should we be ice climbing?

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Heard God today....

In a famous Irish Blessing...

“May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.”

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Radical Discipleship

Jesus is Hard to Enjoy
by Pete Hammond

I seek comfort – He invites me to join in his suffering.
I like acceptance and approval – He calls me to be counter-cultural.
I assume my right to safety – He calls me to personal risk.
I desire financial security – He encourages generosity.
I cherish privacy – He invites me into community.
I yearn for personal significance – he made himself “of no reputation.”
I hide for fear of being judged and rejected – He knows me fully and loves me.
I really like my pillow – He had no place to lay his head.
I want to prolong a healthy life – He calls me to die daily.
I hide in macho male bravado – He weeps for others.
I love good regular meals – He feeds others.
I ponder doctrine – He practices love.
I crave success – He wants me to oppose evil at all costs.
I seek out important people – He befriends the despised and rejected.

Jesus is hard to enjoy, But what I find deep within me is much worse.

“Let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus,Who though he was in the form of God,did not regard equality with God as something to be explited,but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave,being born in human likeness, and being found in human form,he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death,even death on a cross.”(Paul to the Philippians in Philippians 2:5-9)

Lord, help me make choices in my journey that lead to becoming like Jesus; by breaking the hold of sin and evil within me, resisting my appetite for comfort, popularity and worldly success, so I can find real joy in Jesus!

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Sleepwalking Dog....having issues

WOW

Worth my consideration...

“It’s not about the church meeting your needs; it’s about joining the mission of God’s people to meet the world’s needs.”

- Brian McLaren

Ever feel like...

You were born with an abnormally large nose? I felt like that today.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Good quote...

“Be careful to preserve your health. It is a trick of the devil, which he employs to deceive good souls, to incite them to do more than they are able, in order that they may no longer be able to do anything.”

- Vincent de Paul

h/t John Stackhouse's blog