Update

its been longer than I had intended since my last blog posting and i apologize. Life has been strange recently. It has felt extremely busy but it has been the kind of busy that isnt really worth talking about, just day to day nonsense. The picture posted with this is from my trip out west with Chris. It is from the top of a climb on the backside of Mt. Rushmore. That was a really great trip! So I finally got the software installed on the new PC Chris is letting me borrow. Now I can get some real design work done while Im at home. It will give me something to do while Eryn is in the Bahamas or whatever tropical place she is going for "school". She will be gone for the first half of June.

I went on a climbing trip this past weekend. We had planned on going to the new which I was REALLY excited about because I have not been down there in a VERY long time. I was excited about staying with grandma and grandpa and seeing Lou's baby "Ejaihwan Hakeem" (love you Lou) Due to bad weather we had to move the trip to the red. That is a climbing area in Kentucky, it is also the place where my friend Mike Tucker had his accident that he eventually died from. It was a bit nerve racking and somewhat unappealing destination. However I had decided already that I am going to keep climbing and work through that fear and loss.  My first difficult lead was extremely nerve racking, when I came down I was sweating and shaking....the rest of the weekend was fine though. I think i just needed to get that fear out and get back into the "groove" Im sure that fear will grip me from time to time in the future and im ok with that. It will help keep me safe and help remember Tucker. Speaking of which the memorial stickers that Nina designed are done. I really like them. I kind of feel awkward about the idea of giving them to climbing friends because it feels like the gym community has moved on already and im just gonna drag everyone down but I think its important that people remember Mike and remember how he lost his life so that more of us dont end up like that. Ok I have work to do. Night all