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| Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 | | 1:30 am |
Holiday Super Happy Fun Kit
OK, I got the Mac mini for my 40th. But the rest of it I bought myself :) So excited to tell 'doze to kiss my ass.  | | Thursday, December 31st, 2009 | | 1:11 pm |
Snow problem at all
So I had a somewhat wacky snow day... I left work to go get my hairs cut as the snow was going completely crazy and dumping. Cars were littered everywhere on the way up Sylvan to hwy 26. After I navigated around those vehicles that were stuck / peeling out / etc, I got onto the 26, which actually wasn't that busy. Thank goodness I have an AWD Subaru! Long story short I ditched my car downtown after being stuck on Everett for 40 minutes and going only 3 blocks or so. I met Jean and Jonny and some folks at Paddy's, then ended up going to the big annual Christmas party at Pink Martini's compound! Fun stuff :) Happy New Year's all! | | Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 | | 10:18 pm |
Why I love SkyMall
When I'm trying to pass the time on those long, boring international flights, there are a few things that are truly invaluable: my walkman, as many screwdrivers as I can coax out of the flight attendants (hint: alternate ordering from the front and back of the plane, so it's harder for them to tell how hammered you're really getting), and my trusty copy of SkyMall, every page packed with bizarre junk you can, nay must own! I swiped the one from the plane on this trip to Mexico as I found a couple of gems I really had to share. Enjoy!  Finally! A miniature, under desk tanning bed just for your feet! If you've long suffered from pedohypochromaphobia (an irrational fear that your feet are not tan enough) and you thought the nightmare would never end, all praise the inventors at SkyMall as they have come to your salvation!
 All I really can say about this product is it's about god damned time! How many times have I wanted to make a phone call while I was underwater for some reason? I pretty much always wish I was under water talking to someone on a phone. Who doesn't?! "Hello, Domino's? I would like to order a large supreme pizza. Deliver it where you ask? Can you deliver it to under water? Because that's where I am! Thanks, see you in 30 minutes."
...now where did my screwdriver go? Current Mood:  amused | | 10:35 am |
More Yucatan
Let's see, where did we leave off? Merida, I suppose. We spent the rest of our days in Merida buying buying buying stuff. I got two nice sisal guayabara shirts, we got a hammock, some gifts for everyone, and some nice silver stuff (M's x-mas gift to me). Michelle got a linen dress (my x-mas gift to her). We went to the contemporary art museum, which was very cool. Quite a bit of very compelling modern art from all over Mexico! We checked out the big market, which as one might expect was a vast maze of stalls selling more or less everything imaginable. People everywhere were carrying huge bags of fresh habanero peppers too. There were spice booths, teeny tiny little restaurants serving all sorts of dishes to groups of market folks. I liked seeing all the interesting vegetables (chayote being one I was served sauteed and really liked!). I bought a leather belt with a sweet scorpion woven into it and several small bottles of tequila as gifts. At night we headed down to Paseo Montejo, a street filled with massive, stunning mansion that the wealthy colonists built. Really beautiful! Paseo Montejo is a big wide boulevard with lots of bars and restaurants on it, also. We ended up kicking it at Los Yardas with a lot of locals. It seemed to be a popular after-work joint with good bar food and plastic "yards" of beer. We stayed there till kinda late and headed back into town, stopping at yet one more bar so I could get some late night tacos. This turned out to be a mistake, as I woke up in the middle of the night and promptly threw them all up. That was the end of it though, and I didn't get a full-blown case of food poisoning or anything. We headed out of Merida after three nights there and hopped the ADO GL bus back to Cancun to spend two nights before our flight left. The ADO GL is not nearly as slick as the Platino bus, but it's perfectly comfortable. I enjoyed the Ice Cube film "Are We Done Yet" (where they supposedly move to Oregon) dubbed into Spanish. I can't say that the plot suffered much from the lack of English dialog. Our hotel in Cancun was in the "zona hotelera". This is the long beachfront strip of land that's across a lagoon from Cancun city proper. The first thing I can think to say about it is that it sucks. Royal. It's basically a long road with a vast sprawl of MASSIVE hotels. Everyone on the road hauls ass and is driving their rented huge Cadillac Escalades and shit. It's so sprawly you really don't feel like it's walking scale, which is super annoying on a beach vacation. You have to take these busses up and down. It's full of huge gaudy shopping malls, Planet Hollywood, the Hard Rock Cafe, etc. The sheer size of the hotels is amazing. The beach sand is sharp and pokey and a lot of the beach is not very good for swimming. There are a billion Americans. Our hotel was very nice, for sure the more plush accommodations of the trip. We went to Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville for some last minute eats before our flight the last day as it poured down rain. A damn small bottle of water there was $3.80. Cheeseburger = $15.00. Made me really appreciate $10 lobster tails and $2.50 pina coladas on Isla Mujeres. Flying back was uneventful for the most part. It's funny watching all the tourists flip out when they realize that they cannot bring the six bottles of Absolut that they bought in Duty Free on their connecting flight in states, no matter what the Mexican authorities told them. Whoops! Over all a great trip, despite starting out with a cold and some nasty mosquitos bites for M. Saw new places, got a great feel for the Yucatan. Oh - one other choice funny bit: Michelle accidentally ordering beer with Worcestershire sauce in it! Hah! :) Ask me about it when you see me. Viva Mexico! | | Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 | | 1:45 pm |
C'mon Greyhound...
This is the bus we took from Cancun to Merida - the ADO Platino bus. Freaking awesomely comfortable and not that much more money than regular. Why can't Greyhound do this? I'd ride buses way more if they did! | | Thursday, December 17th, 2009 | | 12:36 pm |
Yucatan, if you think Yucatan!
Hello from Southern Mexico! The trip has been pretty brilliant so far, despite starting it out with a pretty bad cold. (Thanks a lot Portland). We flew into Cancun, got screwed on a cab to the ferry dock (eh, it happens to the best of us) and hopped the ferry to Isla Mujeres. This turned out to be a great choice. Isla Mujeres is this little island surrounded by white sand beaches and turquoise blue waters. Fucking gorgeous, and it´s far enough from Cancun that it seems most of the hordes of frat guys and fat golfers never make it. We had a little difficulty finding our hotel but once we did - holy cow it was AWESOME. It was called Cabanas La Meria Del Mar and was right smack at the top of playa norte, and endless white sand beach with water that very, very gradually got deeper so could just sit out there with a beer floating around. The weather was perfect. Mid-80´s during the day, beaming sun, a few clouds, 70´s at night. There were a couple of cool beach bars. There are kinda two main population centers, the turista place in the north and the locals area in the south. The second day we rented one of those four-poster bed things that you see in the high-end travel mags with the yuppies sitting on them and they have the white sheets for walls. We sat on it all day - cost? Seven dollars for ten AM to six PM. Pina coladas $3. The next day we went snorkelling, which was great. It was drift snorkelling, hop in and float down along the coral reef. Maybe not as insanely colorful as Thailand snorkeling but really cool fish anyway. M saw a barracuda! I followed a squid around for a while, I thought that was really cool! After snorkelling we got lunch - amazing ceviche of the tenderest octopus, shrimp and conch, followed by a whole grilled lobster tail that was like $10, local and awesome. We then rented bikes and rode all the way to the bottom of the island to check out the mayan ruins. It was a great bike ride, complete with oceanside rides all the way down and back. We rode through the locals area, got beers at drive-through ¨mini-super¨s (mini-super = convenience store) and stood at the farthest southern point on the rocks over the crashing surf that the Spaniards landed on. It was like 270 degree view of nothing but sea. Amazing! Next day, (yesterday - Wednesday) we caught the ferry back to Cancun and hopped the most luxurious bus I have ever been on in my life to the city of Merida on the gulf side of the Yucatan. When you got on a lady gave you a soda, mints, sleeping eye mask, hand sanitizer and headphones. They had massive wide seats with blankets and pillows and entertainment consoles. The seats went practially flat and I snoozed away a good part of the four hour journey (this was good as I was pretty hungover :) M watched Michael Jackson concert footage. We pulled into Merida after dark. Merida is a city of around a million. The outskirts looked a little rough, but that´s often the case with outskirts of everywhere. The main city is freakin´ awesome. We checked out one of the historical tourist hotels and the musty windowless rooms were not super impressive although the building was stunning. We hiked it to another place a bit out of the center and found the most amazing hotel called Hotel Mexilia. I think it´s run by some gay Mexican guys and an American. The building is from the 1800s and has a central courtyard and all these areas connected with a labrynth of suspended catwalks! Then, the entire thing is FULL of huge tropical trees and palms and plants. It´s a 3-D maze of decks, balconies, etc. Amazing! I really can´t describe it. The room is awesome and the staff is great. The people here dress really nice and huge groups of families, students, etc seem to run around all night long! Today we´re going to art museums and maybe to the big market. I´m going to tray to track down some of the famous ¨cochinitas¨ or roasted pork that this area is famous for. Been taking a lot of pics but they´re all in RAW format so I will upload them when I get back. Hope everyone there is well! | | Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 | | 8:06 am |
Miss you Dan
Dan was killed two years ago yesterday. I'll always think of him as a great, intelligent, cheeky, whimsical, fun man who really loved life. I am better for having known him. I will post a pic later on from home. Rest In Peace, Dan. Current Mood:  thoughtful | | Saturday, November 7th, 2009 | | 10:15 am |
Halloween costumes
As promised - pictures of our Halloween costumes! We were the two lead characters in the movie "Eagle vs. Shark" starring Jemaine Clement from Flight of The Conchords. It's a cute indie flick about outcasts in New Zealand... The real characters:  And us!   Today: off to work on the Corvallis house. Tomorrow: DEVO in Seattle! Current Mood: busy | | Monday, November 2nd, 2009 | | 5:13 pm |
Gah!
Where am I gonna have my 40th b-day party?! !@#$%^&* Current Mood:  irritated | | Saturday, October 31st, 2009 | | 4:54 am |
You can't know how much I miss my parents | | Friday, October 16th, 2009 | | 2:56 pm |
Look, I can Facebook on my LJ
..but in the first person. I just ate lunch at Giovanni's in downtown Beaverton. Absolutely fucking disgusting. Never again. I can haz go home now? Getting my dubstep on thanks to Silphers mix. Current Mood: bitchy | | 11:32 am |
Want
Someone give me about $5,000 to spend here please -> http://www.synthtech.com/OK since I can't have that, I'm going to go try to find some Korean food. TGIF! Current Mood: hungry | | Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 | | 4:31 am |
Relaxed
I'm going to be 40 soon The Roots | | Thursday, August 6th, 2009 | | 11:42 pm |
Well daaamn that was a fun 1st Thursday
Got off the train after a kinda shite day at the orifice... rode my bike down to Ping (in the old Hung Far Low space) and got some freakin' awesome food - that place is on. They are doing something really new and fresh here. Making food with a great complexity and depth of flavor. This town needed it. It's sort of pan-Asian, but not in the hotel bistro sense of the word. You can tell Andy Ricker (of Pok Pok fame) has been spending some time and effort to go overseas and really seek out the best spices and ingredients, and puts them together in a working, creative way. I got the spicy mama noodles, which is basically Thai instant ramen doctored up, with handmade peppery pork meatballs, prawns, a type of bok choy, tamarind, fish sauce, lime, a poached egg, and cilantro... freakin' awesome. After Ping I tried to locate Humper at PNCA, to no avail. Checked out the student art, which is always fun times. Some genius, some so-so stuff. Went by Blue Sky (a photo gallery I always like to stop by) and was more impressed by their drawers, where you can pull out a drawer and see any of PDX's best (?) photogs prints. Neat stuff in there. The main exhibit was a lot of Israeli/Palestinian conflict pictures in one room, and in the main room photos of pudgy hindu men at the beach. Hmmm, they were nice photos, not sure if I'd plunk down $2500 for a huge image of a potbellied Punjabi splashing around, but hey - what do I know about art? Then it was off to the Everett Lofts, where there's esentially a skater-run gallery every 15 feet. Literally. Mixed bag there, not super impressed. Off to Stumptown where Dave Neevil killed it with photos, paintings, and sculpture. They guy is very prolific! Then off to Valentine's for beers and chats w/a whole mess of people I wound up knowing :) Then I took the surprisingly crowded MAX to 60th, mere blocks from my house (did I mention I love having the train right there?) Off to bed. Zzzz.... " Current Mood: happy | | Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 | | 6:59 pm |
| | Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 | | 10:01 pm |
Flickr
I hit 3,000 views on Flickr. Yay?  Current Mood: calm | | Friday, May 29th, 2009 | | 11:08 am |
Rest In Peace, Joe Bailey
I just found out that my old high school / college friend Joe Bailey died yesterday in Bend, Oregon. He was epileptic and apparently had a seizure and aspirated something. He was my age, had a wife and kids. Very sad. You will be missed, Joe. You were a really great guy. I can't beleive I was just drinking beers with you at Kennedy School a month ago. Glad I got to see you one last time. Something else I forgot to mention is that last Saturday was the one year anniversary of my father's passing. Rest In Peace, Don Unger. I love you and miss you.
I had a wonderful bike ride in this morning. Sunshine and blue skies, T-shirt and shorts! How awesome is that :) The Subie needed to go to the doctor this morning, so I had to drop it off at SE Burnside and 7th and then ride my bike over the B-side bridge to catch the MAX train. All the bums on Burnside were waking up. Time to go make some ca$h for some 40's of Steel Reserve! Up and at 'em! Might head down to Ringler's Annex after work, we'll see... Current Mood:  contemplative | | Sunday, May 24th, 2009 | | 8:03 pm |
Sasquatch 2009
Since M's friend was able to get us in for free, and we had a place to stay in Wenatchee, we decided to head up and check out Sasquatch. We only went yesterday, and had a nice time despite the heat. Lots of great bands and comedy! Here are some pics: G + M  King Khan and The Shrines fucking rocked it! They did old school James Brown sounding garage funk. Super cool.  The sax player from King Khan doing "the tuck" (hi ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) catstab!) Note guitar player trying desperately not to look...  More King Khan - the cheerleader did not have undies on and apparently the front row got to see lots of cooter.  Looking for a miracle, maaaan...  Mark Kozelek from Sun Kil Moon. Abso-freaking-lutely incredible live. The only festival band I've ever gotten choked up at.  The Decemberists  My friend Chris Funk, who plays guitar and stuff for The Decemberists. Hi Chris!  Karen O from Yeah Yeah Yeahs  The Doves  The main stage  ...and finally bro-tastic nap time. By about four o'clock, the combination of $9 cans of Coors Light, hot sun, punching each other in the arm, and secretly wishing Creed was playing/secretly wishing they could make out with other bros, tired out even the most hardcore bro, and it was nap time. Everywhere you looked there were passed out bros with backwards baseball caps. They were practically in piles. Someone's going to have an ouchy sunburn tomorrow! Bro!  The end. | | Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 | | 2:30 am |
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