October 18, 2008
Macleay Park
I've been hiking on Tabor and in Forest Park to get back into shape. Well, round is a shape but I want to avoid that shape. I went in search of the tree house above Hoyt Arboretum but couldn't find it. Lame.
October 14, 2008
Skank of Mt. Tabor
The Skank of Mt. Tabor is the southern trail on Tabor that really sucks.
September 28, 2008
Barlow Cyclocross
Today's race was at Barlow High school. It was a lot warmer than last year so that made it hard. If it was wet I would say the mud made it hard.
July 19, 2008
New poptop for van
We finally got around to taking the old musty pop top from the van and installed the new 3 window deluxe non moldy tent. It took about an hour to get the tent off, and about 6 to put it all back together.
July 14, 2008
Softball
After SF Ingrid had a softball game over in Westmoreland. It was uber hot and all the spectators were sticking to the shade like cockroaches. They won 11-10.
July 05, 2008
4th July
We went down to Gearhart for the 4th again. The rest of the family was there and Trey made some carmel corn with peanut butter. A sure sign the diet was on hold. The parade wasn't as exciting as last year, but that's because we didn't get any candy. The F-15 flyover was cool though, it was about 150' above us as it did a few banked turns. So maybe the parade was more exciting than last year.
We went down to the ocean to look at the fireworks and the fires. We decided to leave when one group fired their fireworks into the grasses near the beach. Next time I'll have to bring the tripod down so shots aren't so hazy looking.
I got a tattoo.
June 27, 2008
Home
Mom came over and helped me turn the ground over, kill some weeds and get the backyard ready to fend off the birds from the blueberry bushes. We replanted some strawberries, but they are dead now. As dead as the damned scale now that the Fit/Fatbowl is over.
May 11, 2008
New Van
On Saturday, Ingrid and I went up to Olympia to check out an '85 VW Westfalia Weekender. It looked pretty solid with a newly rebuilt engine and a few issues that come with 20 year old cars. We got the Weekender as it does't have the kitchen sink and such, as we don't see ourselves cooking that much and it'd be nice to have the extra room instead. It's a pretty nice rig and actually goes freeway speeds. It's going to the shop for a few days to get things touched up. I just ordered a new poptop tent and hangers for the curtains that are being drycleaned. We also got a new futon ordered to replace the old bed in back.
February 20, 2008
Pulled back
Last Wednesday I tweaked my back running stairs at lunch. I thought it was pretty dumb to hurt yourself running up stairs so I didn't do anything about it until this week. I went back to PT and got checked out.
PT gal said my pelvis was out of alignment from all of the left turns, and she pulled my leg to get it back straight(ish). The pain in my back kinda went away and turned into a leg pain, which she attributed to the inflamed muscles pushing on the nerves. So that's cool.
On Monday I go to a Doctor to hopefully get some anti inflamatory medicine so I don't have to take my gangster walk down to Mexico.
February 11, 2008
Jeremy out of Army
We went over to Matt's to celebrate Jeremy officially getting out of the Army. We looked for some games to play and came up with Taboo. After a lot of yelling we went out back to burn his fatigues.
February 02, 2008
Ink
I went with Ingrid to her tattoo appointment to realize yet again that I'm too much of a nancie boy to get a tattoo myself. But her tattoo looks badass so that's good.
January 02, 2008
January 01, 2008
New Years
Our exciting New Years consisted of having a fire in the cold and then going inside to watch The Departed after we ran out of flammable chain lube.
November 16, 2007
80s Skating
Ingrid had the idea of going Skating but also thought we should dress up in 80's outfits as we had missed Halloween. So we looked like dorks while at a Japanese restaurant but we fit in with the people who skate at Oaks Park.
November 10, 2007
Visitors
Alex came out to Portland for work and stayed at our place for two nights. This is his out of focus picture. We took him to see Blade Runner, which bored everyone but me and Keevin, and for some beer afterwords at a "Portlandy" place.
On Saturday morning Clif decided to come over and hang out for a little bit before I went to run stairs on Mt. Tabor with May, Jami and Mo. Clif has put on a little winter weight but is still a cute little fucker.
November 04, 2007
Ding in the fall
Ding decided to make a pile of leaves and do some pile jumping
Cyclecross Barton
Today's cyclecross was out past Clackamas at a quarry. It was super nice out and cool run ups and hills. Keevin did really well and probably came in 3rd. Ingrid did good and took those chicks on the run ups.
October 11, 2007
September 07, 2007
Socks
After my boot issue I thought I'd write to the wigwam people as their socks helped me get out without sore feet.
On their site they put up my email and pictures, just scroll down to June.
August 05, 2007
Peaches
Ding and I went to get peaches at Sauvie's Island this weekend. There were a lot still on the trees but they weren't as tasty as I remembered. They all went mushy and moldy in a few days so Ding was a little sad.
June 18, 2007
Cob
On Sunday Ingrid and I went down to help out Trey, Mary and Simone make some cob for a new fireplace. It was pretty fun to much around w/ the mud and straw. My bricks were the ugly strawie ones, while Miles and Ingrid made really nice ones.
June 04, 2007
Videos
I decided to try out vimeo youtube to host little videos I've taken. I put up the Keevin zipline awesomeness. I also took a video of my glissade down the upper part of Mt. Hood.
May 06, 2007
Boot Recovery
On Saturday I went back to the Gorge to get my damn boots back. As I'm paranoid, I brought up some rope and cordlette to help me get the boots out, as they were stuck fast last time I saw them. I got down to where the boots were and was ready to rig up an elaborate system (maybe a 5:1 Z-C pulley system I learned in crevase rescue or some such). There was only one boot and it was just lying there under a small waterfall and I could pull it out with little effort. It came out unattached and with not much in the way of shoelaces. I threw it to shore (which could have gone bad again I realized while it was in midair). I tried to search around in the pool of water for the other one, but the water is too damn cold.
I got out of the water with help from my really unnecessary rope and carabineers. I didn't biff it into the water, so I guess it was all helpful. I walked down the stream, I mean river, for a ways and couldn't see my other boot. I think it was hiding from me under a rock or a branch, probably thinking I wasn't worthy of wearing it. I got back to my bag and solitary boot and packed out to the car. At least I have one boot to add to my growing collection of crap on my front porch
April 21, 2007
Rock Of Ages - or how I lost my boots
On Saturday Dan and I went up the Rock Of Ages trail in the Gorge. It was pretty muddy and a pain to go up, but the Devil's Backbone is super cool. It was cool out and we had fog, which made it like Mordor or something. For once I didn't bring too much food and I was eyeing my advil as a source of food. Not that I'd really starve, but once