the climbing trip was heaps of fun, as was spending about 50% of my time up there living back in chilean spanish again - it started coming back.
I climbed 11 pitches the first day, 8 the second then some bouldering, etc. Nothing super hard or anything, but loads of pump anyway.

I didn't take my laptop with me so it was five days of no internet = refreshing. Played my first session back this morning just in time for the ironman freeroll (min-cashed for about $45) and broke even at the cash tables while running pretty bad (KK<AA twice, 78<KK allin on 678J, etc). Happy with most of how i played, and feeling pretty good about poker. Less than seven weeks until i leave new zealand again, so i need to get some grind in! Seems that i'm close to organising climbing partners for Ceuse while my girlfriend spends a week at some conference. Things are good.