By Rian, on October 13th, 2009
If you’re looking at this live, you’ll see that the temperature in Portland is in the mid-to-low 40s. On top of that it’s windy and rainy. Any illusion of late, late summer is brought harshly to reality if you so much as look out a window. Tonight’s garbage (and yard debris) night, and I walked [...]
By Rian, on October 4th, 2009
How about that for a change of pace?
OK, I admit it. I’ve been gone a while. I have received, what I guess you couldn’t really describe as ‘hate mail’ but neither was it ‘fan mail’, messages to the effect that I suck for disappearing. I apologize.
However, it has been an interesting month… I’ve dragged this [...]
By Rian, on February 26th, 2009
Probably not.
My neighbor just informed me (after I made the mistake of telling him that I was going to keep honey bees) that he has “really bad anti-falactic shock to bee stings.” I can only assume that he was asserting that he would go into anaphylactic shock if he were to be stung by one [...]
By Rian, on February 25th, 2009
I just got an email from my very nice neighbor trying to raise support for Earth Hour. Again, my blog, I get to be super-duper cynical on it.
I hate this kind of thing.
Earth Hour is supposed to be “a statement of concern about our planet and climate change.” So, we all turn our lights out [...]
By Rian, on December 25th, 2008
I’ll admit that I was a little late ordering my Christmas presents. A) I’m not a Christian, and B) The whole “consumer’s Christmas” schtick is a little nauseating. Still, not to be a total grinch and to help stave off the inevitable collapse of our economy, I ordered some crap. Call it peer pressure.
It was [...]
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