I believe that I am the optimist in this case, as I would enjoy a nice long fall ROCK climbing season. Ice is nice but will have to wait it's turn.

Oct. 10th.

Oct. 19th. 11 months before the rest of my life.

So you expect to die next September? As for the frost, que sera sera.

If there's some event coming up that causes you to think that way, perhaps you should really reconsider the going through with the event?

oct 12

Why is everyone taking acdnyc's statement as a negative? Maybe he's looking forward to the "rest of his life"...?

Sounds like he's getting married to me.

And the current listing is:

September 30 - d-elvis
October 1 - Doug
October 3 - Smike
October 4 - JenRed
October 8 - Aya
October 10 - Julie
October 11 - browndog2
October 12 - learningtolead
October 13 - alicex4
October 14 - empicard
October 15 - pedestrian
October 16 - timh
October 17 - RangerRob
October 18 - Bolt_Skytop
October 19 - acdnyc
October 21 - J@son
October 23 - Dillbag
October 28 - chip

Because most Americans usually don't use that kind of construct in every-day speech.