Effect of going private on readership

Not an attention whore (I don't think) bust this is what going private does to your stats.

BTW, if you get a chance, go and see "Beautiful Kate"

a Saturday in pictures

Aberrations Abbreviations:

What is normal play for you?
I'd be thinking that:

BBBJTCWS / CIM / DT
CG / RCG / DS / Mish / Spooning
DATY / DATO / Teabag
BBFS
DAP / PM
DFK
light BDS&M, toys
MSOG
69
occasionally GS

are all the more or less normal behaviors in an established couple

Would you add anything?

The older I get the better I was

Last night I caught up with an old climbing buddy and good friend - Ashwin. Funnily enough we went climbing. I first met him circa 1990 in the climbing club at uni. Bach then he was a pretentious young cocksure wog studying law with grand designs as to what he was going to do with his life. He's now a jet setting $10K a day legal consultant with a veritable model wife, can climb some of the hardest climbs in the world and has an increadible sharp mind and wit, matched only by his cojones ferreas.

His climbing got so good I could never keep up and he was on-sighting 28 (French 7c, US 5.12C) where as I was a much more mediocre 23, 24 (6C, 5.11 b-c) on a good day. We spent many a winters day climbing through the Blue Mountains, and around Nowra. We holidayed together - climbing in Thailand and trained twice a week in the climbing gyms.

Last night was no different - he climbed many of the harder climbs in the gym, I managed a dozen of the harder intermediate routes, and had a good perve at my hairdresser - spunky little 19 year old. Caught up with Guy and james, also from the early 90's climbing era, and took ourselves off to a fab Malay restaurant in Lane Cove for dinner.

The reminiscent conversations about what Ash and I got up to in Thailand are probably better left to another post.

Stuffed Stuff

Manufactures that build crap stff shit me.
Too often something that needs to be glued and screwed is simply glued, screwed when it needs to be bolted, bolted when it needs to be welded whit reinforced flanges. When a trailer axle should be reinforced 50mm box sectioned 5mm steel bar why does the manufacturer think a bit of gal fence pipe will do.
Caribee build crap camping chairs that fall apart dangerously.
Don't buy Caribee kingmaker folding chairs.


I just had to fix two of them the weekend. They have had a very normal life and have not been mistreated. Used sparingly for the last 3 years they both fell apart identically over the weekend when we set them up for the adults at our 3 year olds birthday party.
The folding pipe work is attached to the feet by way of a simple screw - like that's ever going to hold.

I drilled out the plastic a bit and used a bolt and nyloc nut and finished it off with the angle angel ankle grinder. Which is how Caribee should have built them in the first place. I wish people would have enough pried to engineer something so that it was fit for its purpose. A folding camping chair that fails could just mean you have to sit on the esky, or it could end up with a severed femoral artery as a result of an impaled leg.


The workbench: