A reboot to the system

Sometimes it just needs to happen. Things get too cluttered. You have too many applications open. All your memory is allocated. You need to just force a shutdown, and then bring it all back up online slowly.
This is what we needed to do.
After returning from Europe we landed in Denver and slept at our good buddy's, Jeffy Poodle's, house in Boulder. Megan was still feeling quite strange from whatever type of bug or whatever she came down with in Croatia or Greece. Her heart rate wasn't up, per se, but she felt like her heart was beating to harshly, like it wanted to pump a lot of blood without raising it's rate. We went to a clinic in Boulder and when they took her blood pressure, it was 190/ 120. This is way too high for someone her age. The doctor did an EKG (which looked normal) prescribed some blood pressure medicine, and said: I have no idea what is going on. Word of advice, if you have no idea what is going wrong, don't go home and research you symptoms on the internet. Most likely, you will finish this experience quite sure that you have some sort of life ending disease. So, with anxieties mounting, we went back to the clinic to see what more could be done and met with another doctor. She listened quite well, but only brought up worst case scenarios of what this could be.
Well... I was getting a little stir crazy sitting around in Boulder (although I can certainly think of worse places to sit around), so I developed a plan with Megan to hit the road and make our way to Oregon where there are hospitals near buy and more importantly, Smith Rocks is near by. We spent a night in Maple Canyon hoping to get a day of climbing in. We woke to better than perfect conditions (fall had moved in and it was gorgeous), but Megan was feeling light headed, so we headed down towards the local clinic. Once arriving there she felt better, but rather that going back up, we thought it best to just keep moving towards home. In fact, the more we thought about it, the better it sounded for us to go to Seattle, seek medical attention there, and force a reboot. This is what we did.
Megan has since seen a doc in Seattle, she has had many tests run on her (we got to see her heart valves working with an EchoCardioGraph), and of course, we still have no idea why her blood pressure is high. However, she is feeling better, and so today we head to smith. Hopefully this is the best plan of action, but after relaxing at the parent's house and getting recentered, we feel like it is time to go climbing (can you tell I'm excited?).
We head off today. If anyone is coming down, let me know, and we'll be happy to cook you dinner. Also, we are planning to be at Trout Creek for 2 days of the best camping and straight up crack climbing in the Northwest during the weekend of October 28 and 29. If you want to come email Gavin (gavin @ purdyassociates.com) and he will give out all the directions on how to get there. This is sort of an obscure crag, but the climbing is excellent and we'll have the perfect guide, Gavin, there for the weekend. He even has a mega rack stashed up at the crag (for some of the climbs, you need 10 of one size piece).

So... to drag out the analogy too far... hopefully we are clean of viruses and we can keep our desktop clear of clutter for the next couple of weeks at Smith.

Marshall