Category: Life

Waterfall Öxarárfoss at night Originally uploaded by arn4r. I think this is a really great photo. I wish I could have taken it.

Because pseudoephedrine (also known as the only cold medication that actually does something) is the core ingredient for homebrew methamphetamine, and because Oregon is, like, the crystal meth capitol of the world, one now is required to have a prescription to obtain it. I was OK with it being behind the counter, OK even with [...]

It’s been a long but useless week. I got sick, succumbing to Mr. Pencil’s cold he had last weekend in Sunriver. This weekend we’re in Hood River, Ore., different river, different environment. I had to come later than the rest because I was making up some work that I missed. In Sunriver last week it [...]

Dance 6 Originally uploaded by lyzadanger. During our stay and requisite partying during the yearly trip to Sunriver, Ore., I took a series of long-exposure shots with my digital camera of various party goings-on. They seemed really cool at the time but are losing their lustre in my esteem quickly. I should have some film [...]

This week I’m saying hello to a couple of new geeky things, and a sort of goodbye to some old favorites. First, I’m frustrated with Delicious Library, the beautiful Macintosh library tracking system. It’s been sort of ridiculous-forever since they released an update, and the software doesn’t do what I consider “basic” Mac things, like [...]

Has it occurred to anyone else that the term “mouth-watering” is actually totally disgusting? Pavlovian, anatomical and moist. Gross.

I had to walk from work to go pick up my TT at Matrix, where I was having my A/C bearings dealt with (plus a new battery; I’m preparing for a Significant Road Trip). This hike routed me all the way through the new South Waterfront chaos and the scale of it kind of knocked [...]

I spend a lot of my outdoor time in gloves. Great for the cold, not so good if you want to use the scroll wheel on your iPod. Usually my number one scroll wheel need is volume control (as I can skip songs and go back by clicking), but the problem is: with gloves on, [...]

Wintry Lower South Falls Originally uploaded by lyzadanger. David was in Calif. this weekend, so I took a solo hiking journey to Silver Falls State Park. I thought it was about a 45-minute drive, but it’s actually about an 80-minute drive, and I got going a bit late, and I had to be back at [...]

Ruslan Lutskiy? The Minsk native who grew up just a couple hundred miles from Chernobyl, who came to the US on refugee status in 1992 or so and whom I dated for five years? He’s the reason I learned Russian (and in fact majored in it for a long time in college) and I’m sure [...]