I finally got a house offer accepted. On Saturday the owner of house # 3 signed the papers. Tomorrow I'm getting the home inspection and then it's mine!

Well, since I took a nap and can't get to bed, I figured it was over due to put up some pictures from Sara's birthday party over a month ago. Most of the pictures were taken by the guy with the glasses below (the closeup of a nose, hair and glasses.)

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On Saturday, I went up to Mt. Hood to go snow shoeing with one of my climbing buddies Brynne. The weather was pretty nice, just a little below freezing and some sunshine. The snow was pretty crunchy, so we didn't really even need the shoes. But, it's more fun to clop around with big ass slats strapped to your feet. After we walked up and down around the lake, we took a drive up to Timberline Lodge to have some hot chocolate. Well, she had a beer and I had melted chocolate.

I made an offer on a third house last night. Maybe this time it will go through. I broke my realitor's record for number of offers made before buying a house.

Well, I'm 0-2 for houses. I got outbid, again. This was the house I tried to buy.

This Wednesday I made an offer on a house over on the east side of Mt. Tabor. They're waiting until Saturday to review offers. I'm hoping it's not like the last offer where I make a pretty good bid and then someone out bids me by many thousand dollars.

I climbed a 5.10 route on Monday and did it again yesterday. I think it was actually a 5.10-, but that's good enough for me.

Yesterday I made an offer on a house on 10th and Failing. There were 3 other offers as of yesterday and the owner was reviewing them last night. I was hoping to hear back last night, but haven't heard anything yet. So I'll have to wait today and if nothing comes back I'll assume someone plopped down a larger offer. Well, the house didn't come through so I'm gonna have to keep looking. Someone must've way outbid me, and I had offered over $5000 more than the list. jeesh.

Last night I was at the rock gym getting in a climb on a 5.7. Two thirds of the way up the route I was standing up on my right leg when the hold shattered and flew to the ground. I'm glad my belayer wasn't directly below me. After finishing the route and coming down the guy who made the route came by and brought a new hold. I got to go up again and take out the old bolt and put in a new hold. I didn't get to keep the broken hold, but I have a little shard that was remaining on the wall.

This weekend my little blog got hit by a spammer from a casino. They put little comments on each of my pages about blackjack and the like. I came across MT Blacklist, which is a Movabletype plugin that allows you to blacklist certain spammers from your blog, and to delete those comments. I had over 120, so it was nice to have a utility to do it for me.