Today Kelly and I went to the Oregon Brewers Festival… well, Kelly was headed straight there, I had to meet my friend Tim at the Goose Hollow Inn for a reuben sandwich first, since he’s in town from Arizona through the weekend. Getting into downtown was easy, getting to the Goose was a mess.
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Today after work I met a few friends at the Oregon Brewers Festival, the big shindig held at waterfront park filled with, oh, how shall I say this… many of the kinds of people I wouldn’t ordinarily associate with. You know the kind; loudmouthed, backwards baseball cap, muscle shirt wearing, girl oggling neanderthals. The lines [...]
Went to the Thirsty Lion pub for a work event (same one as last year, see this post) after work. Ran into both some ex-coworkers as well as some ex-employers (from the first web nerd job I got, way back in 1996). Also spent time hanging out with a couple coworkers that I don’t know [...]
Went to a great show tonight at McMenamins Edgefield, I got to see a great local band who I’ve been wanting to see for a few years called Menomena, and for the third time, The Decemberists. I hadn’t seen a show at Edgefield before, and it was a pretty fun experience, especially with the great [...]
Last night Kelly and I attended a lovely wedding reception for our friends Tyson & Sujata, who were married a few months ago in Tulum, Mexico. The event was held at a house in Milwaukie which belonged to a family Tyson has known for years. It was a beautiful setting… the back yard overlooked the [...]
So yeah, I didn’t get around to blogging about events from last week / weekend until recently (like, past couple days). Between being busy and just plain lazy, it just didn’t get done. So I apologize if any of you were reading my posts in your feed reader where I’d say “today” when I was [...]
What a day. What a week! Work was crazy busy. On top of many other tasks however, I did get to do things like finalize a logo design, and then use that logo to design a t-shirt and a website… all for a developer community that’s set to launch in a couple weeks. Today however, [...]
Tonight we had one heck of a lightning show! I hadn’t seen any forecasts of the storm so it was a bit of a surprise to see the dark clouds roll in and the flashes of light in the distance. Many of the strikes were directly overhead, leaving us with some house-shaking thunder. The [...]
I spent the better part of the day doing yardwork. Yeah, on Live Earth day I worked to mold nature to my designs. The irony isn’t lost on me. While I was able to make the front yard look a lot better (edged the lawn, refreshed the barkdust by tilling it and re-spreading, levelled [...]
In a recent commercial from for the Falcon XR8 Ute, Ford has created a manly man’s dream world. The paper delivery isn’t a newspaper, but a burrito, a group of men chase after a beer truck called "Mr. Frothy", most of the stores in the town have large signs that read "Tools". Oh, and the [...]
