Are you sure this is really a good thing? You may be suffering from an undiagnosed sugar and or cholesterol deficiency! Try the brownie recipe I posted. Believe me - next to those things, thin mints are a health food.

On a slightly climbing related note - my ability to use (and even see) small holds also goes to hell when I spend too much time in the gym and away from real rock. Generally it comes back after a bit, and the gym power really helps; but sometimes I traumatize myself by trying something harder than my footwork will sustain too soon. Then I have to ease off and re-establish my outdoor lead head all over again.

Jeez - I'm such a wimp.

Just got a new batch of GS cookies! Samoas, Tagalongs and Thin Mints! Just in time, the freezer was looking a bit empty.

Now I can begin training in earnest!

It could just be where I work out but I find the gyms don't set routes which beat my body up as much as the routes that I am doing outside does. I need a couple of good days outside where your arms and body cramp up on the drive home, and make you want to scream to get back into the swing of things.

Remember when the girl scouts actually went door to door instead of having their daddies sell to victims at work?

My parents never would have done the fundraising for me in any of the youth groups I was in - boy scouts, explorers - they'd have driven me to a different neighborhood so I could sell, yes, but I had to do all the walkin and talkin myself.

(And we wore onions on our belts, as was the custom at the time.)

I remember selling girl scout cookies door-to-door in the snow. Uphill both ways, of course ...

Strange. I remember the Cookie Monster selling dead Girl Scouts door-to-door....

Ah, yes. Always a good idea to stock up when you can.

At least the GS had things people wanted to buy. As a boy scout we had to lug around that stupid tom wat suitcase filled with crap that nobody wanted to buy. It really annoyed me that I had to try to try to get people to buy the stuff, it really was worthless yet overpriced junk.

I remember having to peddle magazine subscriptions in high school to finance our prom. Nowadays every soccer camp has something to sell.

We used to sell candy bars to raise money in my Vo-tech school. (My favorite was Carmello) I remember going into the VFW and selling out instantly to the drunks and then using the money so I could go skiing. I scrambled to raise money to pay it back, including over-charging on the next round of candy bars