"Steve Irwin, the hugely poplular Australian television personality and environmentalist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed today by a stingray during a diving expedition."

and all he got was the back page of the Oregonian.

well, this is it i suppose, the home stretch. in a few short weeks summer will be over. already the weather has begun turning. it gets down into the fifties at night whereas only 2 weeks or so ago it never got below 65 ( Read more... )

can you say fucking hot? so they finally came up with a "reality" tv show that captivates me. plus she's a portlander.

the libertine = not good movie. really just bad. sure johnny depp. but really just not an enjoyable movie. think softcore porn striving for a plot mixed with a made for tv movie. the only parts that stood out to me were the intro and the outro. and even they were a bit silly. so when you're making your list of all johnny depp's movies so you can ( Read more... )

"Show me how you do that trick ( Read more... )

work today consisted of getting all decked out in tyvec coveralls and rubber boots and climbing down a 30 foot ladder into an empty sewege treatment container that was only empty insofar as the water (loose sense of the word) only came up to our ankles. the reason for this is that we are begining "forensic" surveys of the concrete. needless to say ( Read more... )

livejournal seems to be dying... or... well... i dunno, aging rapidly maybe. few people that used to always update with some regularity actually do anymore. some people not at all. do people still check it or has it left their lives completely. i tend to read it fairly often, but a post is somewhat rare ( Read more... )

car shopping is a bitch.

so far consists of sitting in an office trailer until 2 in the morning checking a gauge every 2 hours waiting for the pressure to build under a resevoir so that we can monitor the leakage flow. only the pressure isn't building as fast as we'd hoped. good because the thing isn't leaking much, bad because it means we sit around all night watching ( Read more... )

so tomorrow i start work at 7... pm and work until 7 am tuesday. 12 hours later it will start over again and this will continue for 5 days. i don't know why i jumped at the opportunity. i'm a morning person, not an all nighter. on the plus side, 60 hours next week, 20 of those at time-and-a-half. plus i'm pretty well stocked on espresso beans and ( Read more... )