I’m taking the day off from work this Friday and going to Portland for the Oregon Brewers Festival! Woo hoo! My original plan was to stay in Portland the entire weekend, but as it turns out I’d already obligated myself to a friend’s wedding Saturday evening, so I’ll be spending Friday night with my friend… Continue reading Oregon Brewers Festival and Portand Friday
Month: July 2006
the show
Okay, I’ve pretty much become addicted to the show with zefrank. I can’t help it. It’s compelling. And funny. And smart. And for embedded online video, it just works. Go watch. And then go watch a bunch of the archives.
Cowboy Dinner Tree review
The Cowboy Dinner Tree was fabulous. A real experience, one I would absolutely do again! So this review will mostly consist of gushing over the meal (I can’t think of anything bad to say), followed by a few pictures. Read on…
Cowboy Dinner Tree
Tonight my wife and I are driving down to Silver Lake to eat at the Cowboy Dinner Tree. This is actually something we’ve wanted to try out for years, but it was this article in the Bend Bulletin which finally prompted us to make reservations. Probably the best description I could give is one I’ll… Continue reading Cowboy Dinner Tree
Dell computer fun
Simone noted the humor/frustration level I was having with Dell this week at work. Of course, anytime I mention “Dell” around her she shakes her head in disgust, so perhaps she’s not exactly the most objective observer. 🙂 What happened was, at work this week one of the newish Dell PCs started making a high-pitched… Continue reading Dell computer fun
My brother’s garage sale
A promo-note to any garage salers reading: my brother and his girlfriend are having a garage sale today (Saturday the 15th). Among other things, he was planning on selling some of his older video game systems (Nintendo 64, Super Nintendo), with games, and we took a toddler mattress over there for them to sell ($45… Continue reading My brother’s garage sale
Killer Kangaroo!
Now, this story is just silly: Fanged killer kangaroo roamed Outback. Forget cute, cuddly marsupials. A team of Australian palaeontologists say they have found the fossilized remains of a fanged killer kangaroo and what they describe as a “demon duck of doom”. … The species found at the dig had “well muscled-in teeth, not for… Continue reading Killer Kangaroo!
The name game
While I can’t say as I’ve found much use out of MySpace, my sister-in-law did post an amusing bulletin that I had to steal. I’m sure we’ve all seen variations on the name game… here’s a collection of rules for generating ten of them (along with my results). Your Spy Name: Middle name and current… Continue reading The name game
Don’t you hate that under the weather feeling?
So I’m fighting off the advances of a summertime cold, picked up from my son. It’s that tickly sore throat, run-down feeling and if it doesn’t get nipped in the bud right away, then it’ll turn full-fledged, and we don’t want that. Hence, I’ve been dosing up on echinacea, Airborne, vitamin C, and Ricola. And… Continue reading Don’t you hate that under the weather feeling?
How I spent…
Yeah, it’s one of those “How I spent” posts, inspired by Shannon’s this time. Only I’ll confine mine to my super-busy holiday weekend. Saturday, my wife and daughter went to Sisters with my mother for the rock and gem show. They do this every year, it’s tradition. While they were gone, my son and I… Continue reading How I spent…