Archive for April, 2007
Sign #1 it’s time to make some changes/take better care: When your 10:30 appointment says “You look kind of like a homeless guy today.” And yeah… he’s right. More on why and what I need to do about it later….
Helpful commenter and friend of this blog Cate posts this as a comment, but it deserves a post of its own:
Join Portland Parks & Rec, Friends of Vermont Creek, and SOLV for SOLV-IT Earth Day in Gabriel Park! Come help battle the infamous invasive plant: ENGLISH IVY!! Promises to be a fun day of celebrating […]
So Jr. V and I walked up to the playground at the Multnomah Center last night. I was a wonderful warm evening, and SCA fight practice (which I’ve posted about before -> “Knight Court”) was in full swing. So to speak.
We hung out for a while, while Jr. V gleefully entertained a pocket-sized 8-week-old puppy […]
This week I am down in the capitol of Tallahasse on a business trip. The only true nightlife I am able to find are the ever-circling moths that dash about the street light in the parking lot of my hotel as I stagger back from the office at an ungodly h…
There’s something really depressing about watching a 40-something be interviewed for a job at Starbucks by a 20-something. “Tell me about a time you experienced conflict in the workplace… Why do you want to work at Starbucks?” and so on……
We’re working through the Book of James… with these I want to continue the visual theme of the nature images James uses (in this case waves) as well as suggest the idea of a prayer (like for wisdom) and an…
Multnomah Village Park Groundbreaking Wrapup
Closed Published April 19th, 2007 on The Multnomah VillagerThis is likely a “spoiler” for the next issue of the SW Community Connection, but here’s a link to Jessie’s story about the groundbreaking for the new Multnomah Village Park.
New Park Takes Shape in Village.
Information about the newly created park is on Randy’s site, multnomahvillagepark.googlepages.com and there’s a work party this Saturday morning.
Phil reads my blog. Hey Phil! Welcome to the universe of Bob. Just for the record, I feel a bit badly about the more strident tone of the past few days, particularly as it relates to Phil. But I guess…
What It Ain’t… When I hear people criticizing the concept of preaching with dialogue, 99 times out of 100 what I am hearing bears little relationship to what I have personally seen and done in this area. Somehow, the straw…
The Dream is over… Oh how I love the American Idol postmortem on Idolator- Can’t wait for it every Wed/Thur……