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Friday, January 16, 2009

Holidays in Portland

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Here are some pictures from the Holidays/Snow Storm!
Enjoy!















 

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Happy 2009!

2 comments Posted by Jonathan at 8:42 PM


So its been a long time since I updated. One of my NY resolutions was to get back on the ball with this.

All started getting behind because of my Awesome Bachelor Party that was thrown by Best Man Weston and Groomsman Mike D. It stalled because its pretty hard to write an interesting a fun tale without including the details that each of us will swear never happened. However, the biggest amount of time was spent trying to come up with words that would accurately describe some of the smells that none of us (including one unfortunate cab driver) will ever forget from that weekend.

The next weekend, Cousin Erica and J came out to celebrate Thanksgiving and my 30th Birthday weekend. That was a great surprise and it was great having them out here for the weekend. I wish they had stayed longer/forever.

Following that was the great Portland Snow Storm of '08. Worst snow in 40 years. I took some pictures and I'll post a seperate "remembering the snow storm" entry in a bit.

Well, that gets it started again.

 

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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

The Beer Store

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On Monday I made it my mission to find out where Apizza Scholls got their Old Style tall-boys from. There is a Bears-Packers game this weekend and I'm optimistic it'll be on TV at home. It took 1 sec of a google search to find my first option, they had an online beer search and I was off.









Looks like a convienence store, no parking, but 1000 beers. Picked up:

a six pack of Old Style - for the game
a four pack of Scottish Heather Ale - not what I remembered from Scotland, but ok.
the first beers I've ever had from my paternal homeland, Lithuania - Porter AWESOME, Lagers also VERY GOOD
Kelpie - A Scottish Beer made with Seaweed water, haven't tried it yet
a pair of Czech Republic beers - for my buddy who will be visiting. We've been to Prague together 2x.

A beer store. Beer we can believe in.

 

Monday, November 10, 2008

Friday Night

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So, we went to the Hollywood Theater on Friday Night for the Superman Symphony. Olivia knows how much I think Superman is cool, so we went to see a melding between an old Superman radio broadcast, vintage Superman Cartoons and a classical music presentation. They also threw in some vintage commercials. All in all, an interesting show. Worth it, but short for the $14 price tag. At least you know you are supporting the local arts and an interesting venue.


The worst part was the Trimet bus #77. All the other buses I've taken have been on time. This bus was late coming and going. Olivia and I walked over a mile on the way home before catching the bus partially back.


We had dinner that night at Colloso. VERY good cocktails. Interesting, Unique, and made well. The mantra of the restaurant, however, is "BE PATIENT". We waited forever for everything. I think we were there 25 mins before ordering a drink, 50 before ordering dinner. PS the place wasn't packed. The food was good, the cocktails tasty. I'd just go a few hours before you think you will be hungry. The surprising news was that they serve food all night, till 130am or so.


 

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

The Next President of the United States is...... A WHITE SOX FAN!

1 comments Posted by Jonathan at 10:13 PM

Chicagoan and White Sox Fan Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States.


The other big race I'm watching is in the Oregon Senate, where Incumbent Gordon Smith is trying to keep his seat against Jeff Merkley. Smith is a moderate who works across the aisles. I hope he keeps his seat as I prefer people who work together with all parties and peoples and don't fall to political idealogy.


 

Election Day

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Here in Oregon we have a vote by mail system. Everyone has either already mailed their ballot back in or are dropping off at designated boxes in their area. Really takes some of the excitement out of Election Day. No stickers, No crazy registration problems. I'm curious if the state has already started counting the early ballots, they have a table of how many ballots from each county they have received each day. Not sure if at 8pm we'll have a quick "with 66% of the precincts reporting..."


No politics here, but I'm amused with the "Go Vote" campaign. I'd prefer only the interested, well informed voters to vote... but perhaps that is not a popular opinion anymore.

 

Sunday, November 2, 2008

I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated.

0 comments Posted by Jonathan at 7:35 PM

So in Wales, they have to have official signs in both English and in Welsh. When they needed this residential site only sign translated, they only got back "I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated." I can only assume that NO ONE in the chain of command speaks ANY Welsh.

Its very similar in Ireland, where all the information is also in Irish (Gaeilge). Hopefully they avoid these similar problems.

Source: BBC News

 

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