- my family, immediate and extended
- my Tahosa friends
- my "Pakistan" friends (most are from the US, UK and Canada)
- my WPI friends that lived with me this winter
- my Sabetha friends that I have seen, talked with, and shopped with this year
- my WPI roomates
- my Mezcal menugas
- my new Ballard (Seattle) friends
- my WPI grad school classmates
- my WPI grad school professors
- the people I have interviewed with
- my education, all of it
- the people who have contributed to Janzen Gear with nothing to show for it yet
- my patents
- the ability to run
- the ability to climb
- the state of Colorado
- Montbell
- Patagonia
- Saucony
- DMM for making a double axel cam (that was just plain genius)
- Apple, Inc.
- Clif Bar
- GU Energy
- Toyota (yeah 270k miles!)
- free camping bivy permits, national forests, and on routes
- Millsite!
- 3G coverage
- coffee
- lattes
- chocolate
- cheese
- used book stores
- online banking
- credit cards (part of my problems but they are very enabling)
- CNC mills
- enthusiastic kids
- my Philmont friends that I have talked to this year
- the Internet
- ebooks
- iMovie
- DVDs
- 50s (as in the temperature Fahrenheit)
- YouTube
- oil painting
- big wall climbing
- free soloing
- fear, without it I would be dead
- ice axes
- maps
- burritos
- four wheel drive vehicles
- fences along the highway so I don't have to worry about hitting cattle
- blogging
- paved roads
- the generosity of people I know
- not being persecuted, for anything
- recommendations from others, they don't have to say anything good about me but they do anyway
- music
- FM radio stations
- carpeting
- the simple machine the wedge, we've really done a lot of things with it
- friends of friends, by far the least awkward way to meet people
- tequila
- scotch
- wine
- bartenders
- coffee shops
- link cams
- unemployment - really. I am appreciating more all of those things that are not money. Leaving out a lot of explanation on how my thought process gets there, I wish I could experience starvation and poverty, so that I could really appreciate even more what I have now.
- my psychosomatic back pain helped me understand stress and my body more than anything ever has
- not having a kid, baby, child or anything. I'm looking forward to it, but not in the very near future.
- bolts on rock climbing routes
- Doritos Late Night Cheeseburger commercial with Bombs Away by Kyle Andrews (and featuring Belen Chavanne)
- RedBox
- girls, women, females, ladies, whatever they prefer to be called, that smile
- size small (and women's size small Columbia jacket)
- size extra small Patagonia shirt
- size medium socks, hahaha
- finishing my documentary My First Expedition: Broad Peak
- Seattle
- belaying from the bumper
- 5.12
- Longs Peak (four attempts and no summits this year)
- Call of Duty
- Janzen Gear
- a 1980s orange Miyata Professional with Dura-Ace gears
- solar panels
- photosynthesis
- leaves changing color
- teachers
- professors
- one-on-ones
- powder days
- skiing on ice
- the Extraterrestrial Highway
- metric
- tri-cams
- Google Chat
- truth
Life is good.
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