2nd Snake in 1 week!
So I went a year without seeing a snake in AZ. Now I have seen 2 in a week. This time I found a new area of rocks to climb that were more like devil’s lake. I mean big ass rocks all the way to the top. Being more logical this time I had brand new shoes and some fingerless workout gloves. Well that made a huge difference. My new shoes which are designed for “trail running” have a ton-o-grip. I was able to walk virtually straight up the rocks (spiderman eat your heart out) so long as I moved fast enough. I also went another hour earlier, like 5 something.
It was only 10 mins or so into my climb when I saw another snake. He had thick stripes on him in tan and off-white. Once again, he didn’t want to fuck with me so he retreated under a rock. Well whatever. I guess that makes the climbs even more adrenaline filled.
I choose the most difficult path up the mountains that I could. There was a couple spots that i needed both my hands and feet and had to go at weird angles and pull myself up. I could of just gone around those spots, but they are the most fun to me for some reason. Even though I got fairly scratched up because of how I had to pull myself up.
My ipod was picking songs perfectly for my climb, and even picked one I had never before by Arcade Fire, called Windowstill. (yes, I thought it was sill too, but it’s still). That was the most gorgeous song I have heard all year. Then shortly there after it played Prozzak’s: DJ (a song not on their albums, that I ripped myself from myspace), which is such a great song. In that song it says “I believe that all the problems of the world will eventually be cured by a DJ”.
There were other quality tracks from gov’t mule all the way to Jem. It was enough to make me want to make another compilation cd. As a reminder, I used to average 13, 80min comp cd’s a year from. Last year…. I made ½ of 1 cd. Seems when I got an ipod that I was content with shuffle on it enough to not make any more cd’s.
Well I will be adding the mp3’s I mentioned here as well as a few more to my mp3 player on my site. Not right now, but soon. I just now thought of a brilliant way I can bring back Ask-a-Smartass without finishing my drastic rewrite, so I am going to go do that right now. I will have it up before end of day, though I am leaving in another 20 mins so I may not have time to add the news feed to the main page, but the function will be done. I will announce it in another post when it’s back. Then I just need to get Smartass Recommends up and we will be cookin!