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I want to marry her and take her name as my own. Then we can add "juggling instruction" to the sign

I kinda experienced night

Went to the minor league baseball game here in Missoula. The thunderstorm started in the 7th inning, suspended play, and I walked back to the motel.
Now, if night means headlights and street lamps then,  yes. If night is looking to the west and seeing only darkness then, no.

The home town Osprey were up 10-0 over the visiting Voyagers of Great Falls when the ump signaled stoppage. I got a free team hat as part of the evening's promotion.

The weather, more lightning than rain, calls into question tomorrow's plans to hike up to Lolo peak once I leave Missoula.

Beginning to think about what happens when the trip ends.

Note on video links

The video links I've posted for YouTube may not work. I had to change them to unlisted. My stalker found them thanks to Google's prompting to change YouTube handles to Google Profile/G+ handles. She started leaving comments. I deleted them and hide the videos.
In the future I'll post individual links to each one. {Sigh}

Well somebody's reading this blog

USA TODAY

I went to little calf creek in escalate (posted pictures) and then had a drink at Kiva koffehaus (wrote an r-rated review on Yelp.

New videos online

Four new videos on Youtube here (sort by Newest)
There would be more but the multi-select isn't working here on the computer in Missoula Library

omg , the cure for any boredom is east this weekend

http://www.knieveldays.com/ in Butte, which is a pit... Literally.

I might have to rethink this whole "nature" theme to the trip.

Better than walking in a mall.. i guess

So after two days of ice cream and movies I decided to do a little local hiking in order to earn my pizza. Also the forecast is for high heat wed-fri so it made sense to designate mon and tues hiking days (2 off, 2 on, 3 off, resume normal trip activity)
Yesterday I went to Rattlesnake NRA just north of town (13 minutes) and this morning I went to Blue Mountain Rec Area just south of town (20 min)
B O R I N G
5 hours of monotony at rattlesnake and 3 at Blue Mtn (I learned something and shortened the return)
Perhaps I'm spoiled from spending so much time in national parks but there was nothing interesting or challenging about these places. Maybe they're fun for bikers and rattlesnake might get better in the backpacking wildernesses section too far north to get to in a day hike. I hope so 'cause otherwise I don't want my tax dollars protecting them from development.
Perhaps I'll rent a bike tomorrow. There needs to be a good outdoors experience here in Missoula.