Wandering that ghost town by Independence Pass, I couldn't figure out how anybody could live at 10K for long periods of time. I know it's doable but I damn sure wouldn't want to. Where were you at when you were at 10K? You know HAPE or HACE is just a small price to pay for that sort of scenery...

AA just pissed me off. I was still in grade school when I came to the conclusion that God fit nicely in with Santa and the Easter Bunny in the 'lies the grownups told me' category. Being told I had to ask a higher power to make me not want to drink just seemed patronizing and insulting. Half the AA meetings I went to I just came away with new ways of talking myself into drinking again. They started to be much more enjoyable once I started getting baked beforehand. Then I realized getting baked did a lot better job of making me not want to drink and I just stopped going entirely.