For all you curious minds who have been wondering what I'm up to here in Portland....
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02.11 Visit DeMara
02.22 Amory Lovins lecture
02.24-28 Mom visits!
03.11-13 Graham visits! (hopefully)
03.18-27 Spring Break
04.22 Earth Day!
Renegade Rose Morris!
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Photos!
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Quotes!
"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."
-Tom Stoppard, ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’
"To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s."
-Dostoevsky, ‘Crime and Punishment’
"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily difference we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."
-Marian Wright Edelman, ‘Families in Peril’
"If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal, - that is your success."
-Thoreau, ‘Walden’
Forget Mount St. Helens -- we're off to Oneonta Gorge! There's a really cool Virtual Guide Book to the Columbia Gorge that has swiveling camera shots of some really cool places and attractions. It's kind of creepy getting a 360° view on a computer screen as if you were standing in one place turning around looking at things, but it's pretty cool. There are some neat waterfalls and things around here.
Anyway, must go finish making eggy sandwiches and getting things together. It's a holiday! :)
Thursday, July 03, 2003
Holiday tomorrow -- Wheeeeeeee! And a paid holiday at that! That was a surprising piece of happy news I got this week. The day will probably be spent hiking and picnicking with Hugo, Ellie, Kirsty and Robbie, at a location yet to be determined. My only request was that we go somewhere I haven't been, which isn't a very tall order, since I've hardly been anywhere! We're probably going to drive up to Mount St. Helens and look at the lava tubes or something nifty like that. :)
The Salem World Beat Festival last Sunday was a success, despite the fact that five of the Bridgetown Morris Men cancelled their attendance on Saturday, so the team consisted of Hugo and Phil dancing and Dick playing music. They did a fine job, though, and sang some songs in between the dances. Renegade Rose performed in the afternoon and then marched in the Parade of Nations. Ellie dressed as Brittania and carried the Union Jack and the "England" sign. The parade was a rather cacophonous blend of every nation's native music and costumes, but it was fun nonetheless. You can see pictures of the day's antics here.
Due to a great number of our dancers being gone for the holiday and the rest of us being burnt out on things for now, we've cancelled practice for tonight and instead are getting together for an evening of singing and music. That means my knee gets a rest and I don't even have to make excuses! :P
Enough for now. Dinner time and then singing!
Wednesday, July 02, 2003
Wow, it took me a long time to post this entry that I wrote a week ago! And the new Blogger is weird! Anyway, here's from 6/25:
Apparently my blog is being converted "to a new-and-improved version of Blogger," so I can’t actually post right now. Humph. It seems that, since I post so infrequently and sporadically, the least that Blogger could do for me would be to make itself available for those rare occasions on which I do want to post. Sigh.
I saw DeMara today! Hooray! She picked me up after work to do dinner and catch-up. We tried to go to the Portland City Grill on the 30th floor of "The Big Pink" (the second-tallest building in Portland, with an amazing view of the city) for cheap happy hour appetizers and good scenery, but it was really crowded and noisy and unconducive to chatting. So we went back down the 30 floors (no, we didn’t take the stairs) and went across the street to a wonderfully colorful, funky cute restaurant called Ca?ita, where a bunch of my co-workers had gone for cheap happy hour appetizers. I had wanted to go with them, but had scheduled dinner with DeMara before I knew about the outing, but this way I got to do both at once! It was fun to hang out with these guys somewhere other than work; I really do work with a pretty neat group of people. And all of these particular people were under or very close to 30, so everybody’s pretty close to the same age. I’m still the youngest of the bunch, but fortunately I don’t usually feel it. So that was fun.
Random hilarious computer story of the day (well, yesterday). I was having a terrible morning yesterday with the printer – the server was freezing and nothing was printing, and when I restarted it it kept giving me weird error messages that I didn’t understand. If I left the message too long without clicking one of the buttons it offered, a verbal alert would begin, basically a woman’s voice reading the error message to me. It was scary enough the first time, but the second time she prefaced her recitation by saying: "It’s not my fault." I’m not kidding. I couldn’t believe somebody had actually programmed that into a computer! It almost made up for the hassle I was going through. (But not quite –- my printing rate hit an all-time low of about one job an hour). Fortunately, I managed to sort out the problem with the help of tech support, and actually hit an all-time high printing rate of 21 jobs an hour this morning. So that was satisfying. But enough of work. I’ve decided to make the conscious decision (do I sound decisive or what?) to leave work at work, and not to bring it home with me. Makes for much more relaxed, less stressful evenings. J
Practice tomorrow for theWhirled Beet Festival, as our Squire likes to call it. Renegade Rose is listed in the Sunday entertainment at the European Village, but unfortunately it doesn’t have any description, so nobody will know what we do! Humph. Oh, well.
We "stole" some fresh mint from Beverly’s garden last time we were over, so I think I’m going to make myself some mint tea and take a bath. I’ll post this whenever Blogger decides to let me get to my blog again.
