Back in the Eastern Time Zone...

Last time we spoke, we were heading to Chattanooga....well, we made it here late last night...around 3 AM or so....so tired.

Unfortunately, we messed up...The New York Rangers (I am a huge hockey fan if you weren't aware) were playing in Nashville last night...we didn't realize that until we were 3 hours out of Nashville with 1 hour until puck drop. Needless to say....I was flipping...certainly a bit of poor planning on our part. In order to try to ameliorate my fury, Alex suggested that we find a bar to watch the game in...after all, we were in Tennessee...and there were no other sports (that we knew of) on last night...hockey must be playing.

Well, we got to Buffalo Wild Wings about 15 minutes after puck drop. There were two college football games, a basketball game, a tennis game, and two TV's dedicated to an in house video poker game...Do the Predators have any fans?...pshh...not in Jackson, Tennessee. Alex saw that I was about to bug out, so he asked the waitress to put the game on for us instead of the Tennis game that nobody was watching. Well, it took them about 20 minutes to figure out what channel the game was on (it was the first time someone had asked for a hockey game at that Buffalo Wild Wings), but we got to watch the better part of a 2-1 Rangers shootout win (yea we did...). Even Alex was getting into it....kind of...

Now that I am done with my rant...back to climbing.

It's a pretty cool little spot called Little Rock City (one of the stops on Triple Crown Bouldering Competition). The boulder field is actually just off of a golf course. The owners allow climbers to use the boulders as long as they register, pay $3 each (not bad, considering our usual climbing spot in NY costs $15 each plus $5 parking...), and follow some pretty lenient rules. The boulders certainly aren't as high as in Bishop or Hueco, and the routes are definitely graded a bit easier out here. Nonetheless, the rock quality is good, there is a good mix of hold types, and the routes are pretty fun to climb. After going through some pains to find a guide book (the first two places we navigated to via GPS did not exist...pretty sweet), we got a couple hours of sick climbing in...all in all a successful day.

Music...o boy...there is a lot (not listed chronologically):

The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour

Billy Idol - Greatest Hits

Black Sabbath - Technical Ecstasy

Collective Soul - 2005-From the Ground Up

Creed - My Own Prison

Disturbed - Believe

Faith No More - The Best Of
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape

Korn - Korn

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti (also the name of a cool multi-pitch route that we will be climbing next time we are in Red Rocks)

Metallica - Load

No-Man - Dry Cleaning Ray

Pearl Jam - Ten

Rage Against The Machine - Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk

The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

System of a Down - Mezmerize

Talking Heads - Little Creatures

Tool - Undertow

Yes - The Yes Album (this was a request from Joe Cas...didn't think Alex would oblige, but he surprised me...)

That's it....for music...told you it was a lot (Tennessee is really far from Vegas)...

Quote of the day...o boy...:

Let me preface this by saying that we had just woken up in the back of the truck, in the middle of a very crowded rest stop...the window of the truck was cracked to prevent condensation:

Alex - "I put icy hot on the inside of one of your articles of clothing last night...you have to tell me which one." (he did not really do this...we both knew that prior to the events which follow...)

Larry - "does being a dick come naturally to you?...you just open your mouth and out spurts dickery..."

Alex - "O yea?.... (at the top of his lungs....) RAAAAPE....RAAAAAPE...RAAAPE...I saw it in your eyes...HE'S IN HERE...WITH THE RED HAT ON!!!...Good luck going outside now...."

Larry - (curled up in a ball and hidden in his sleeping bag laughing uncontrollably)..."What just happened?"

I must really hate myself to spend as much time as I do with him...nah....he's not that bad...

Well, I am exhausted and I need to figure out how to stop my fingers from bleeding so I can climb again tomorrow....

Pictures to follow tomorrow...when we have some...

Talk to you soon...if Alex doesn't get me arrested for rape...