The Big Kahuna Demolition Day

Thanks to the help of Matt, Dennis, and Dave, the Big Kahuna Demolition Day met with huge success. We hauled out all kinds of junk and debris into the dumpster, and finished demo work on both the bedroom we worked on last weekend and the master bedroom. We could not...

The cave is empty

Happy Easter, everybody! This crossposted news entry represents the death of the HTML-editor-based weblog I’ve run since February 1997. It started with simplistic Adobe PageMill 2.0, moved quickly to also simplistic Adobe PageMill 3.0, underwent a sizable...

Bipedal Motors, Inc.

I walked a lot by myself yesterday. While there are still a few wobbly moments, I’ve more or less got it figured, I think. I watched the kids at Lapsit Story Time at the Library on Friday and I watched Abby across the street yesterday, and it’s all coming...

Oh yeah, now I remember

I watched the last five minutes of the Nuggets-Blazers game this evening plus a little bit of overtime, and a feeling of peacefulness and clarity settled upon me: Now I remember why I hate the NBA. The frickin’ refs are terrible. When Portland was good (and I...

Shroom the Doobie

The Blazers have a long history of really awful public relations campaigns. My favorite was the year they shot a series with Blazers bursting into people’s houses to dunk from chandelliers and so forth. Probably would’ve gone over better if the Blazer...