Portland's been pretty good so far ( Read more... )

I leave tomorrow for a job interview in Portland.
I got them to extend my stay so I could check out the city (and the dance scenes). Portland is really cool! I'm excited!

Wish me luck.

It's 3 am.
There's a live blues band.
The lights are low.
There are over 100 awesome, sexy dancers on the floor. I've been getting great compliments on my dancing.
Why am I posting about it and not out there on the floor?

On the plane today I put in some earplugs. They're bright orange and I have no hair to conceal them, so they're very obvious ( Read more... )

So I was leaving a most excellent Flipside decompression party last weekend out near dripping springs. It was around 3:30 AM. I pulled up to a left turn traffic light. The light was red, so I waited around a while. Then I waited some more. And then I waited even still more. This was a looong light. Then it starts a whole new cycle of the ( Read more... )

I'm standing in a redwood grove. There's no sign of man. It's increadibly peaceful. It could 2000 bc.
Then this little device in my pocket rings. The spell is shattered. But, hey now I may as well blog about it!

Hmm... How do you backdate an entry to BC?

PS I'm at UC Santa Cruz.

Well, I'm off to Flipside in the morning. Woot ( Read more... )

Setting the LJ option, "Default privacy of new entries", to 'Friends' actually means "Default to making it look like new entries will be accessible to 'Everyone', while silently overriding the user specification and making them 'Friends Only'"

I suppose they are trying to err on the side of caution, but damn, that's a wrong-headed user interface.

Visiting the Arch monument in St. Louis is like a masters coarse in line-waiting.

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I'm considering going to three different dance events on the west coast in early June.

May 30 - Jun 1PortlandCome Rain, Come ShineJun 6 - Jun 8San FranciscoDown Home Blues ShoutJun 13 - Jun 15SeattleJeremy and Karissa Wedding Blues and Lindy Exchange
The tentative plan is to stay on the west coast in the intervening weeks.  No point in coming back ( Read more... )