ARRIVING PASSENGER: Can you get there from here?
ME: If you’re Spider-Man, yes. Otherwise, no.

* * *I’m gonna vent. One of the reasons we invented blogs, right ( Read more... )

Starting last Thursday, I’ve been going to work. I’m now wrapping up my first weekend of this job. Of, you could say, Job 2.0, because I’m back as a Valet driver (called a “hiker”) at Portland International Airport.

A few things have changed at the job since I’d last worked it (I got furloughed mid-March 2020; you can read about that in these blog ( Read more... )

I’m about to work again.

I’m headed back to valet at the airport.

I may have more to say tomorrow.

I'm missing my job and I'm missing the airport.

Before the before times came to be known as "the Before Times," I was going to go to a thank-you dinner. At work. At Portland International Airport, where I started working as a valet in November 2018.

I was one of - *checks* - 171 recipients of the PDX Excellence in Service Awards 2020, and I would have gone to the dinner the evening of Thursday ( Read more... )

There. Showered and dressed. Later, I'll eat, then go walking ( Read more... )

Well. Stuff has happened ( Read more... )

TriMet made schedule changes Sunday. Some of them big, some of them small. And one definitely helps me ( Read more... )

Say what I mean, mean what I say ( Read more... )

What's my past week been like, you may ask? Well ( Read more... )