omg an actual update!

what have i been up to?

february
- bday in tahoe -- blizzard conditions -> no snowboarding achieved, but poker and hanging out with friends was nice

march
- knocked down by a prius in the netapp parking lot, not overly injured, but got an impressive bruise and some workers' comp physical therapy out of it
- last day at netapp on the 17th, next day started independent contract that fell in my lap

april
- went to yosemite (while geoff went to slo), climbed with awesome oldtimer -- bottom of arches, munginella, cs concerto on manure pile -- thrilled to get some multipitch experience, and of course very inspiring climbing in yosemite!

may
- much work, figuring out how to be effective on my own at home, enjoying my highly flexible schedule
- we were going to go to yosemite, but the forecast was for scorching heat, so we went up to lovers leap instead, where it was still scorching, even at almost 6k ft -- saturday afternoon i semi-trad led the 1st pitch of knapsack crack (guy we were with left his gear and i also placed some of my own), but we bailed on sunday due to heat wimpiness
- geoff decided we needed to be able to watch movies in the backyard, so we built a wooden frame with a sheet stretched over it and set up a projector for memorial day weekend bbq shindig
- did a pretty full day at castle rock with rob (guy i've been climbing with at the gym a lot), falls right side -- degeneration, slab up to roof on putrefaction, leading to death, lieback crack -- awesome names on this wall, no?

june
- had best of intentions to get wedding thankyou notes out before a year had passed, but obviously failed miserably
- spent extralong weekend in slo for our anniversary -- practiced gear placement on 60 seconds, clawed and hangdogged my way up camel, led garden wall (my first full honest-to-goodness lead of any difficulty, woo! and it was kinda scary; those bolts seem awfully far apart...)
- very little work, much jobhunting, a few phone interviews, applied for unemployment