- Beautiful City of Portland, and I'm Hidin' in the Hotel Room
- One Degree of Separation
- Good vacation; bad blogger
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Thursday, June 28, 2007,6/28/2007 07:20:00 PM
Portland, OR -- 3rd Annual CouchFest Reunion -- June 2007
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007,6/20/2007 05:05:00 PM
Good vacation; bad blogger
No, I didn't blog very much from Portland. No biggie. I was, after all, on vacation. And I did write some posts in Blogjet that I might post belatedly. I made great progress on my main goal, which was to get this laptop software ready for the upcoming trip to DC. Still got a couple bugs to work out, but nothing major.
I'm typing whilst waiting at the head of the 'B' line to board my almost nine-hour flight to Chicago with stops along the way in Oakland, Ontario & Phoenix. Eh. And this after hanging out here in the Portland airport for five-plus hours hoping to get an more direct flight on standby. So it's gonna take me almost 15 hours to get from Portland to Chicago, then the 2.5 hour drive home.
Still, so long as the plane lands on safely, I'm not gonna get my shorts in wad. It's summer time, I've got a decent amount of charge left in my iPod and laptop, so I'm just gonna sit back and enjoy the trip as much as possible. The Portland airport has wicked good free wi-fi, so the last few hours have been reasonably enjoyable.
Peace out homies.
I'm typing whilst waiting at the head of the 'B' line to board my almost nine-hour flight to Chicago with stops along the way in Oakland, Ontario & Phoenix. Eh. And this after hanging out here in the Portland airport for five-plus hours hoping to get an more direct flight on standby. So it's gonna take me almost 15 hours to get from Portland to Chicago, then the 2.5 hour drive home.
Still, so long as the plane lands on safely, I'm not gonna get my shorts in wad. It's summer time, I've got a decent amount of charge left in my iPod and laptop, so I'm just gonna sit back and enjoy the trip as much as possible. The Portland airport has wicked good free wi-fi, so the last few hours have been reasonably enjoyable.
Peace out homies.
Thursday, June 14, 2007,6/14/2007 07:30:00 PM
Beautiful City of Portland, and I'm Hidin' in the Hotel Room
Time to crank up this ol’ rusty beast, just in time for the upcoming DC07 — this year’s reprise of last summer’s terrific trip to DC. We leave in just ove two weeks, so I’m using a trip to Portland as a dress rehearsal to work out the kinks and hopefully hit the ground running once we get in that torture device — a.k.a. charter bus.
I arrived in Portland earlier today, just after noon, but basically haven’t left my hotel room yet as of 4PMish. I didn’t sleep well last night, so tried to get in a solid nap, which proved irritatingly elusive. But I did get some decent dozing in, and now I’m absorbing some caffeine before I hit the hotel gym and then downtown Portland.
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