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one week ago, i was enjoying an IPA from Ninkasi Brewing at my hotel room in Portland, when it started raining and thundering, biblically.

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i like to think my new twittatar is more "friendly" than some of the "pensive" "brooding" or "ridiculously pretentious" ones i generally see

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it happened. i've been writing so much prototype.js for clients who use ruby on rails, that i'm losing my jquery instinct. sad.

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using microformats in my wife's blog template. the cobbler's children may have no shoes, but their momma's got mad kicks.

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maybe a growler of IPA will help with my IE6 problems. hey, it can't hurt.

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realizing i should have become a typography geek. struggling to find any serif font that looks acceptable on windows without cleartype.

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i think the lease expired on my rock, i just discovered Vitamin String Quartet via iTunes.

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um ... watching new video on VH1 by Def Leppard featuring Tim McGraw. yeah, i'm at a loss to say anything clever about that.

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regardless your politics, ice cream truck song would be more effective than waterboarding. i'm ready to confess, and i haven't done anything

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futurama friday! appropriately, the first episode in the shuffle is the internet one.

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MacOS X Mail's stupidity (and my ignorance) means all my outgoing email has had a different "From:" address. why did i switch from t-bird?

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tonight i overcame the self-censorship that occurs when you realize who your audience is. sorry mom + mom-in-law, my blog is my blog. deal.

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quote, my wife: "bird in the hand... keeps that bird from pooping in your eye." it's that kind of raw optimism that drew me to her.

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*finally* watching a few of the ROFLcon panels i didn't attend - http://tinyurl.com/57jwx5 Respectably French will have more posted soon

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i'm hoping to successfully ignore CS4 betas for a while; way too many other things to do.

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back home after a week away. trip was full of fun, nostalgia, and work. i'll whore some URLs to photosets as i post them.

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played the "try to guess where you're flying over by landmarks and land features" game. didn't recognize anything until i saw the Pru. Fail.

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waiting for my flight. sunset in Seattle is beautiful. it'll be a while before i see one of them here again.

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back @ SeaTac. If you've got spare time in Seattle's airport, remember that the Africa Lounge in Terminal A serves Mac & Jack's beer.

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first impression of cafe umbria espresso - nutty.

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Had coffee with @bgl gave him a @roflcon lunchbox. Much hilarity ensued. Now he can explain to everyone he meets what rofl was.

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aha! the Dreamweaver beta is out that Scott Fegette was alluding to @ WebVisions. looks like good stuff, maybe even respectable to geeks.

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Hiding Out w/John Cryer starts on Showtime, and i have to check out in half an hour. life is hilariously cruel.

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at Whole Foods i picked something up that i hope helps with my sunburn. the Aloe Vera gel, or the Elysian IPA. either one should do nicely.

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Why did they have to put the Whole Foods on Denny at the BOTTOM of this darned hill. Oi.

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in lieu of social opportunities, i'm walking to Whole Foods to grab something to eat and a beer or two, bring them back to the hotel.

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Ah, Bottleworks. If we still lived in Seattle, you'd probably be getting 10% of our income still. beer tithe.

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ah, Fred's Rivertown Alehouse. how i've missed you.

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Went to look @ the old house. Still there, still cute. Headed downtown - car show. Covering about 12 city blocks.

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as much as i'm usually engaged in a struggle to do the exact opposite: i need to stop producing content, and get out and have fun.

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interesting, hotel internet is trying to man-in-the-middle my outbound (SSL'd) SMTP connections. guess i'll ssh tunnel to my test server.

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yay, a proper hotel breakfast. scrambled eggs, sausage, potatoes, various toasted things. and a whole steam tray of bacon. /gaffigan

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Since my hotel is only .4 miles from feierabend, i had to get a bretzel and a pint of Baron Schwarzbier. it's a moral imperative.

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i did it. best SMS alert sound EVAR: http://girdernet.com/cricket.mp3

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Pricelined a really swizz room in downtown seattle. ahem... "w00t"

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preparing to freak my GPS out. it doesn't seem to know about ferries. heh.

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waiting for Bremerton ferry. wifi is $3.95 for 2 hours. ehh no.

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need to find a hotel in seattle for the next 2 nights, then get out of the hotel in portland and head north.

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stopped raining finally. wow. that was the craziest rain i've ever seen, here or elsewhere. PDX got hosed!

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Okay now the power is blipping out and i guess there's routing hardware down 'cause i lost my wired net. Cell seems to still be up.

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holy freaking heck is it raining. i don't think i've seen rain like this when we lived in seattle, dunno if it's "normal" for down here. wow

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wow thunder & lightning here near PDX. i think we're about to get doused.

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it's a magically gorgeous evening in portland. low, filtered sunshine, and perfectly temperate.

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TJs salad for dinner since i had it in he fridge anyway... now figuring out where to go get a brew in portland. so many choices!

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back in portland after my oregon seashore adventure. it was 64 degrees F and cloudy when i got over there, but it started clearing up.

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yes, the sea stacks in oregon are just big rocks. but they're pretty amazing big rocks.

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my rental has oregon plates so nobody thinks i'm a tourist driving around. they probably just think i'm a jerk.

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magsafe, fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me

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kinda bummed nothing local is open downtown on weekends. Looks like Starbucks for coffee.

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SmartPark garages = excellent idea.

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