The Apprentice Changing Orbitals Thursday Remix

Recently I went out to Joe's Valley with my buddy Al Lew on a mission to meet up with Dr Ben Elkon. Ben's been MIA doing his Peds residency in Utah. I was MIA for his wedding when traveling in South Africa, bad timing but damn it was a good trip

Before I left there was the final harvest of my first garden which is the setting of my forthcoming, long self anticipated next painting, really want to connect with the brushes and color again. Sometimes the side of an apple become really important.

Al displayed some serious off-the-couch-ness skills on our Joe's trip by doing Playmate of the Year in a matter of 30 mins.

Oddly I found myself completely uninspired in Joe's. Maybe a bit of burn out after nearly a year of finger recovery and then a big trip to Rocklands and then wrapping up a season in Wolvo. I felt like speeding through outer space, visiting other planets, or chasing down an astroid or working my way between branches at local canyons.

Meanwhile, I got myself into another PA job closer to Boulder and in the ER. I'm not saying that my current job isn't working but it is a long drive from Boulder and the promised loan repayment fell through.

This past Saturday I did my first day of training at the new job then ran up Boulder Canyon to finish off The Amendement V10/11 (Grand Tension was harder so maybe Tension was v11). This is somewhere in the range of the 3rd or 4th v11 I've done that has been down rated to v10. Nobody else has done Tension from the way I started it so I'm psyched to see what people think it is next summer.

I love the local climbing season. So often climbing can dominate my free time, it's nice to have local projects that I can push myself on but don't require so much commute time. Time to sip some coffee at a cafe, read my book (now reading Cutting for Stone which is spectacular, you should read this, read it in a day, be the first to read it in a day, Cutting for Stone in day) and journals, study a bit, hit a yoga class, play the guitar, sit, and not feel too overly rushed.

The Top 3 list for Boulder Canyon this season (the conquest for v12):

#1--Authentic Battle Damage

#2--Burnout

#3--Hug Right

Other of note are: Headless Horseman, Get Over It, Graham Arete Right

My apologize for not posting the sports med update. I have a lot of PRP data to down load on y'all from my journals and a recent conference.

I also have ideas to share from my practice in psychiatry these days, as in DONT do meth, you may become schizophrenic and loose your teeth.

Nex blog post, I'll try to bring you the sports med data and an update from the east coast, looks like I'm head to the Gunks and Farley for bouldering and NYC for family for Turkey Day. Gobble gobble.