Trendsetter? You make the call.

This is a preview picture of some Jack Spade suff.  Take a good look at that bag strap.  I know, it's kinda hard to see the pattern, but it gets better.

Now, check out Jimi's guitar strap.  The last photo is from Woodstock.

Now take a look at MY guitar strap.

So who is the trendsetter here?  Jimi, who is one of the greatest guitarists of all time, but dead?  Or me, an amature guitarist, who is alive and well.  You make the call.

Stick it in the fridge

It's in the fridge and will be all summer long.

Flavor of the Month

My new flavor of the month is hiking the White Mountains of New Hampshire. I really don't know what exactly brought this on, but I have a great view from my 6th floor office in Waltham looking over a lake with a couple islands, also I read about Shakleton's expidition to Antartica and other stories of survival in Antartica (one where a guy had to reattach the soles of his feet each day {WHAT?!?!}), but i think it was the passing of Sir Edmund Hillary who was the first to climbed Mt. Everest with Tenzig Norgay.

I used to be in the Boy Scouts and we went camping every month and two weeks in the summer.  I also climbed Mount Liberty with my father and a friend of his.  I had thought for a while that I really didn't ever want to go camping or hiking again. I had done enough for a lifetime.

However, something has gotten into me and I now have a goal of climing NH's 4000's within the next ten years my lifetime.  I'm pretty exited!  Will I do day hikes or weekend treks? I'm not sure. So I have to get the equipment together, buy a new tent and backpack.

Hillary and Norgay