Powells run. You know what to do. Recommendations by e-mail or here
(which conveniently enough, will send e-mail).

Or if you all prefer, you can gather and place wagersguesses as to what will go wrong with my trip this time. Just remember: I'm ( Read more... )

I could regale you all with stories of my Thanksgiving in Portland, but I
know what you all really want: transit platform photos! Unfortunately I
forgot to take photos of any transit platforms, so you're stuck with cats
instead:

( Photos of cats, for you furball-worshippers )

I should be working on architecture, so you all get pictures.
Since you all seem to be obsessed with cats, you get pictures of
Portland cats =P

( Nyaa )

Pictures of the Portland trip. Second batch are from a drive out near
Mt. Hood.

( Mt. Hood and surrounding forest )

Pictures of the Portland trip. Don't ask how I got them uploaded. First
batch are from the Portland area; a later batch will cover a trip out toward
Mt. Hood.

( Meow, Downtown, Bridges )

The view of downtown Portland from atop the Marquam Bridge (this functional beastis quite beautiful, at least partly due to the fact that the view from atop ( Read more... )

Ah, the bliss and impending bankruptcy that is Powells...

Modesitt's driving me nuts now; two new books released in the
Recluse series with no paperback versions yet, argh. But that's okay; in
addition to Les Miserables, I made off with more in Haydon's Symphony
of Ages series, Sorcery & Cecelia (Wrede and Stevermer), Amber
Spyglass (Pullman), ( Read more... )

Latest on the travel front. Dates are actual flight dates, and tend to
reflect a late evening arrival at each destination. Philadelphia still
needs to be scheduled...

• February 18..21: Portland, OR (scheduled)
• March 3..6: Ithaca, NY (scheduled)
• March 16..18: Philadelphia, PA (speculative)
• March 19..April 8: Kyoto, JAPAN (scheduled; US dates)
• ( Read more... )

I will be in the vicinity of Portland, OR during Thanksgiving (where
"vicinity" means "within a few hundred miles"). This means, among other
things, that it's time for another pilgrimage to Powell's Books, a.k.a. Destroyer of ( Read more... )