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!