Hey there!

No, I wasn’t arrested and thrown in the slammer because I was rowdy at the wine tour. No, I wasn’t abducted by aliens. Nope, not sick. Not dead either. Just been buried at work and have way too much going on at home, or recovering from way too much but that’s a story for later (maybe later today, maybe tomorrow).

Anywho, I just want to point out a few others who haven’t been posting so I won’t feel so bad for myself. There’s Word of Fur, Boobs, Girls are Pretty. And who even know what happened to Starlett? She's just become anti-social, that's what. So it’s not just ME. If you’re going to punish me, punish everyone else.

But what I will say is it’s interesting to be working in Downtown Portland again. If’ you’ve never visited our lovely Rose City then you probably don’t know that our downtown is a magnet for all the weirdoes, crystal meth heads and crazy homeless people ever to roam the earth. I mean it’s not like the weather three quarters of the year is anything to drag people here for, as I’ve said before it’s raining from mid October to just after Independence Day here. But the crazies love this place, must be the over abundance of crystal meth around these parts. I am taking the light rail into work now and today I got to watch two middle aged strangers share stories about their tattoos and then share stories about their prison stints. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

And an alarming trend is occurring in the part of town where I live. The other night the Roommate was awaken by a loud crash and since we rarely get thunder storms up here, he knew it wasn’t weather. He stumbled outside to where a crowd was forming around a Volvo parked on the side of the road. Well, it wasn’t exactly parked in the road anymore and it didn’t look so much like a Volvo anymore either. Someone had brutally sideswiped it, caved in the entire driver’s side and pushed the majority of the car up over the curb and onto the sidewalk. Yesterday on my way to work I came across two cars in the same condition only a few blocks away. Either vandals are getting more brazen or hit and run, drunk drivers make a point of roaming our neighborhood. And no, it wasn’t me in either incident, than you very much.

So, anyway, I do have some fun photos of Wine-O Tour, 2007! It was an excellent excursion this year and a great time had by all. Stay tuned for more.