The drive from the coast into Portland wasn't incredibly long, but did feature yet another route among windy mountain roads. These were nowhere near as difficult to negotiate, but I was kind of over having to deal with all that at this point. Geographically, it reminded me of the foothills of the mountains here with farmlands interspersed between ( Read more... )

Sunday saw me head north along highway 101 and across the Oregon border. The ( panoramic cliff views )

You can go through life having a keen interest on a particular region, a sport, a band, a type of performance art, or any other subject and digest all the media and information about it you can find, but that will still not compare to actually experiencing whatever it is in person. I've always found redwood forests fascinating and watched numerous ( Read more... )

The default google map directions from San Francisco to most major points north puts people on 101, which may be the most direct route but by all accounts meanders through some mountains and dusty plains and doesn't offer that much of interest. I left going down Highway 1, which runs along the coast of California for almost its entire duration ( Read more... )

There was a time in which anything interesting or in any way outside of my regular mundane existence, it would immediately be recorded here. Any news item or other on-going event or recently jogged old memory frequently got scribbled down in these digital pages as well. As the post history would indicate, this is no longer the case. Other social ( Read more... )

Another MDF has now been added to the "stuff I have done" collection. I got off to a rather late start on Day 3 as I really wasn't feeling that up to being out and about. General listlessness and being older and more prone to being emotionally drained were really taking their toll on me by this point so I didn't head down to the lot until shortly ( Read more... )

As I entered the gate to the parking lot venue yesterday, I was asked for my ID then told by the gatekeeper "I can only give you a wristband if you're going to get fucked up." I said I'd let the bartender know that getting me drunk was a requirement and hopefully they'd take care of me. Good to see the doormen have a good sense of humor about ( Read more... )

I had been surprisingly calm about going to Maryland Deathfest #5 this year. Last year was me coming off a 4 year absence and still working on my social anxiety and had been expecting to be similarly anxious about going back this year. The past few weeks have featured so little going wrong or concerning me that I started to get anxious about not ( Read more... )

This year's garden is now in the ground. Or in the ground which is in the pots. I'd been meaning to plant it yesterday as I try doing that on my birthday when possible, but it was overcast and rainy all day. Even though my balcony is covered it would have been a pain to undertake and the dreary weather probably wouldn't have been optimal for the ( Read more... )

Several months back I heard about the Boxcar Arcade opening up in downtown Raleigh. Lots of my fond childhood memories were spent pumping quarters into cabinets of fiberglass and cathode ray and their demise at the end of the 90s bummed me out a bit. Granted home gaming systems have all but rendered them obsolete, there was still something more ( Read more... )