Today Kelly and I did some running around, including going out to my brothers place, and then going to John’s Marketplace to get a new keg for the kegerator. With the recent heat wave Portland has had, I decided to get something light and Summer-y. So I picked up a keg of Trumer Pilsner, a [...]
The past couple days in Portland have been very hot. 100 degrees or so. Either way it’s been about 20 degrees above my comfort level. And again, as usual, I’m kicking myself for not having bought some kind of air conditioning unit for my house. Granted, these super hot days don’t last long, and there [...]
Today I spent the day doing a lot of yard work and house cleaning. My sister-in-law is staying with us (from the Olympia area), and my father-in-law is also in town (from Florida), so while they were out and about Portland for the day, I pulled weeds, trimmed plants and shrubs, and then cleaned the [...]
I was reading an article from by Alan Ehrenhalt at The New Repulic titled Trading Places, about how over the past decade+ more affluent and wealthy folks have been moving into cities, and more poor folks have been moving away (or are being pushed away) to the suburbs. The article is fairly well researched, and [...]
I’m a very heavy sleeper.
It takes a great deal for me to wake up normally. Kelly has been known to come nudge me, more than once, to crawl my butt out of bed. I just sleep heavy.
So imagine my surprise when I suddenly wake up at 3am to some house-shaking thunder. And the rain. Egad [...]
Well, we’ve spent the past couple days in Bruges, and it’s a wonderful city. It’s small enough to walk the entire center (only about a mile wide, and about 2 miles long), but packed with history. We took a canal boat ride, which while a touristy thing to do, was a lot of fun. We [...]
Since my last post of randomness, a few things have happened… most importantly, Kelly had her graduation for her MBA last weekend. The ceremony wasn’t too long, a little over an hour, however due to the order of events, and our shared last name, Kelly was nearly the last person to get presented with her [...]
After getting back from the mountain yesterday safe and sound, getting home by 7, and being really tired and going to bed around 9:30pm (my sick still having some sway over me), Kelly and I woke up just before 8am this morning. We both sat around a bit, I cleaned my office a bit, played [...]
Still got the flu, worked from home again today. I’m really done with this crap. I can tell I’m on the mend enough that instead of simply feeling miserable, I’m getting very grumpy. Probably from being couped up for so long. This evening there was a lunar eclipse. I went out and snapped a [...]
Still sick with flu. I hate this. Yesterday I came home early from work which turned out to be a really good thing, as around 4pm my fever & sweats returned. Since then, it’s been another round of aches, stuffy head, and more fever (with some scratchy, watery eyes thrown in to make my misery [...]
