I stayed home from the office again today ( Read more... )

Busy, busy day! I spent the morning on festival stuff, plus I cleaned up the kitchen and did a load of dishes ( Read more... )

Today was a nasty, rainy day. We stayed in, glad not to face the bad weather. We got a yon of rain, and are supposed to get tons more. (sigh ( Read more... )

first thing this morning (at 6:00 a.m.) I woke up in time to see Roger Federer and Switzerland win Davis Cup for The very first time! Very exciting ( Read more... )

Today was our appraisal ( Read more... )

According to the weather report tonight, Portland broke the old rainfall record of 1.31 inches set in 1951 with a total rainfall of 1.56 inches. By evening the total rainfall at Portland International Airport was 1.8 inches. According to the Bureau of Environmental Services, the heavy rainfall on Wednesday caused Portland's combined sewer system to ( Read more... )

Yeah, it might be vaca, but I needed to do a deadline job for the festival today -- working on the Christmas card graphics. This is hopefully off to the printers now (I had to re-do it once, so far). Otherwise we're talking me starting over from scratch either tonight or tomorrow... (sigh) Seeing as this was supposed to go to print today, well ( Read more... )