Saturday, January 26, 2002

It's snowing! 8:01:24 AM

Friday, January 25, 2002

I introduced my son to Tenacious D this evening. May have been a mistake... 11:29:12 PM

In late February, I'm planning to take a trip to the East Coast to visit Henk Milne, an attorney in Miami. Henk and I worked on some interesting civil forfeiture cases a dozen years ago, and we spent more than two weeks together in Peru, doing depositions with our clients. In addition to his day job (which he often extends to the evening), Henk heads The Volunteers, "South Florida's only original Celtic rock band." I'll try to catch them live, but you should buy the CD. 11:08:46 PM

I had lunch with Bruce Knivila, the attorney who helped us start the charter school. Salem doesn't have a great selection of restaurants (Olive Garden was recently voted the Best Italian Restaurant), but we tried a new Thai place. It was good. I'm thinking about taking the Oregon Bar Exam this July, so Bruce and I discussed local practice. 11:05:22 PM

My friends at the River Gallery are opening their new show, Wild Women, tomorrow night. Perhaps riské for Polk County, but at least it's not Harry Potter. (FYI, some local folks believe that the boy wizard will lead our youth to commit ritualistic Satanic murder). 10:52:37 PM

Time to make new friends in 2002, so it's time to homebrew. I bought to raw materials today, and I'm brewing tomorrow. See me in six weeks if you'd like to sample. 10:48:51 PM

Monday, January 21, 2002

Played tonight with my friends at Buena Vista House. My children have rekindled their affection for pool. I hope they can augment their college tuition funds with the skills they learned tonight. I beat Jake in a game of attrition - a close but convincing win. We have difficulty establishing a playlist, and I suspect that I'm to blame for much of the problem. I keep playing new songs, rather than stuff we've played before. (Easily bored, I suppose.) Claudia and Pat are polite to me, but I figure I'll need to toe the line soon. A song worth working: "Your Cheatin' Heart". (I'm a bit ignorant of CSS, so I'm not sure how to specify a nonproportional typestyle. My, how little things torment me.) 6:48:59 AM

This morning, Kim and Sara went to the Rose City Classic, a four-day series of dog shows in Portland. Mary Strom of Snow Winds Farms is showing two of our dogs, Beau and Rosie. Rosie is more than half-way to her championship, and Beau added a couple points this weekend. 6:30:25 AM

Sunday, January 20, 2002

Business Week: Special Report: The Future of Apple. 10:46:18 AM

If the rain stops tomorrow (yeah, right...), I'll trake a trip down the Willamette River to one of the original clay sites of the now-defunct Oregon Pottery Company, founded in Buena Vista. (By reputation, the the first pottery works in the northwest.) Mud with great history. The raw clay will be worked by some local potters, then made part of the wood-fire clay oven at the Buena Vista House. 10:14:00 AM

What's a Jewish guy doing in church on Sunday morning? Helping my friend Robert Clark with a promotional video. Robert works at Western Oregon University as the Multimedia Producer. The church work is outside the official duties, and he needed to borrow some video equipment and time on my editing station. 10:05:41 AM

After we came home from Dayton, our friend Martin Rowland dropped by on his visit from Seattle. Much talk about tech - hard to find in these boondocks. 12:18:47 AM

Saturday, January 19, 2002

Jake is at his second speech tournament today. Kim and I are travelling to Dayton for dinner and music jammin'. Our bass player has been busy with a Sunday gig on the coast, so we'll be glad to hear those lower frequency rumbles again. 9:56:06 AM

Friday, January 18, 2002

I took a field trip with my Buena Vista friends to see a earthen oven being built at a new restaurant in Corvallis. My friends are planning their own oven, built of local clay, for pizza and pottery. 6:49:03 AM

Tuesday, January 15, 2002

Jacob completed his requirements for 1st Class Scout tonight! He's happy. Next week, he'll find out if he's ready for Order of the Arrow. His buddies are already contemplating his ordeal. A cautionary tale from one of the scoutmasters, who came to the meeting with a heavily bandaged hand. Although this fellow is one of the most safety-consicious, by-the-books guys I've met, he loped off his thumb and two fingers with a radial arm saw. He picked up the pieces and got them sewn on in time, but he almost missed the time envelope for saving the fingers. Even so, the doctors had to remove his thumbnail and attach medicinal leeches to improve the healing bloodflow. I was going to cut some firewood today, but I'm a bit more squeamish. 9:28:43 PM

Next up on the software punchlist: Retrospect Backup for Mac OS X. 9:51:01 AM

This morning I'm working on a life story video for a client. I played with Apple's iPhoto on processing the images, but I decided to process the 100+ still photos with the combo of Graphic Converter and iView MediaPro, two great pieces of Mac OS X shareware. I tweaked the audio narration with SparkME, a Mac OS X audio tool (freeware, too). 8:37:31 AM

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