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Boise Trip Day 3
Today we got up at a reasonable time and had a tasty breakfast buffet at our Inn. After that we got up to date on our facebook, computer, and photos. I read sections of the Wall Street Journal and Idaho Statesman, and in particular looked at the movie listings ( Read more... ) -
Boise: Christmas and Boxing Day
We arose at 4am and packed, leaving Colton shortly before 8. Our trip down to Eugene (to pick up some late gift deliveries at Katrina's house) and over to Boise was long and pretty. Voluminous snow closed most of the parking lots and dampened our interest at my usual stops at Sahalie Falls and the Metolius West Bank Trail. Lunch was casual in ( Read more... ) -
Dear Santa
Santa, please take the blinders off of our politicians so that they can see that their policies, their inaction, their divisiveness in no way serves anyone ( Read more... ) -
Moving to Portland, sorting through stuff
It's been a while since I made a life update. Details are lengthy, complicated, and in some places private, so I will spare you that. Most significantly, I'm working on categorizing my belongings, so I can move from my rural Colton home into a less permanent/more flexible/smaller scale living situation in Portland somewhere (probably close-in, E, N ( Read more... ) -
Why the holiday shopping season happens earlier every year
It's the same reason that the early bird catches the worm, or why trees get taller and broader. If you are on the spot first and get that tasty meal, you are more likely to succeed. If your ability is to out-compete the other trees in capturing the flow of sunlight, then taller and broader trees are more successful, and have more offspring. In ( Read more... ) -
Indian Dal dinner recipes
Saturday Katrina and I spent most of the day centered around food: French toast breakfast at Studio One, shopping at Sunrise Market and Market of Choice, a nap, and then an orgy of cooking, ending in having Jill and Stephen over for dinner, conversation, and music. Dinner consisted of:
Cachumber (Salad from whatever's on hand): sweet onion, tomato ( Read more... ) -
Chamber Music photographs
I've posted on flashless rock show photography before several times, but today (pending permission to share images) I am going to write on my first experience photographing some chamber music. It was fun. I learned some new skills and techniques, and recognized limitations of equipment I had missed before ( Read more... ) -
Personal spirituality
A facebook friendship request asked "Why Pagan?" and I responded with the following ( Read more... ) -
Congratulations Republicans!
These vexing problems you've been stonewalling ANY progress on (keeping our nation down) are now yours ( Read more... ) -
Abbreviated birthday, and the long night after
Wow, 81 Happy Birthdays on my Facebook wall... and I haven't even checked the Storm ballzboard - I know there is a thread there too ( Read more... )