From an Oregonian article about most downtown parking tickets accumulated. The top winner is a UPS truck. But also high on the list? The daughter of a doctor with a little too much spending money. Who also has a parking space in a garage. The absurdity of this made me laugh.
Favorite blog Pike Schemes sent me their 2014 Holiday Card. As usual, I love all the pictures. Also, I notice that this year there are no friends in the pictures, only the Pike Schemers themselves. Interesting.
I lived downtown from 2002 to 2005. Back then, a few of my jogging routes would take me through Northwest Portland, so between that and walking around, I had a pretty good lay of the land. I had to be at 24th and Northrup, so I walked from Union Station through the neighborhood just to see what had changed.
In short: nearly everything. Huge buildings where there once were none, huge multi-unit places where once there was a house, stores, stores, stores, restaurants, restaurants, restaurants and parking just as horrible as it always was.
So I was thrilled to come upon the Northrup Food Center, which has not been bought, torn down, spiffed up ironically, or anything else. It looks exactly like it did a decade ago.
I love the incredibly grimy 70’s white rock.
I spied an R2D2 hidden away. Old promotion maybe?
Whoever takes over this property has a lot of junk to dispose of.
Here’s a link from 2008 about a mural on the other side of the building. I’m not sure if its still there.
Here’s a link from 2010 about the man who owns the building which also provides insight about why the store hasn’t been redone.
All of the wooden awnings have been squared off and the south side of the work site’s framing has been covered.
I’m interested in what these big indentations are going to turn out to be. There is more than one of them. Recessed mini-courtyard?
The north side of the site has these big beams going in, which leads me to believe that I’m right about this part having more stories than the south side. Also the constructed nature of those big beams is prompting me to tell you that in my work building, all those big beams are solid wood. Because my work building was built when they were still cutting the old growth and it was no thing to mill huge beams like that.
I’m pretty good with spacial relations, but I can’t quite figure out the configuration of the space without walking through it.
You can read more about the benefit fundraiser here. But I thought I would share some of my favorite photos.
This would be the establishing shot, not a favorite photo. You can read more about Jilt by clicking here.
“The keyboardist looks like he could have actually been on tour with Journey” my friend Kelly quipped. She was not wrong. Not only did he have the look, he was also incredibly talented.
Were I to have a stage style, I might emulate the look of the vest/fedora that the bassist is sporting.
Keyboardist and the “fir” that give the Doug Fir its name.
An homage to Jimi during “Let me stand next to your fire.”
A blurry shot (we’ll just pretend it was smoke) of the drummer/backing vocalist.
A solitary watcher.
Sunglasses in the sound booth.
Chilled out photographer.
Hand stretching across the frame.
Good camaraderie and nice harmonies.
Self portrait.
Band and light show.
(basic character)
(full Healer battle gear)
(with a golden gryphon and a cactus mount)
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If you want to read more, here are my more in-depth posts from last year.
Gertie’s New Book for Better Sewing has a schematic to make a circle skirt. I had material left over from the capes I made last summer, so here I go.
I had very little pattern paper, so I made my right angle in one corner.
And then raided the wrapping paper for the rest of the pattern.
Here are my two pattern pieces, the waistband and the skirt.
I moved the chairs out of the way to clean and then left them while I was working on the skirt. Sentinel found a new seat to sit on.
Sadly, while I had thread and the material, I did not have a zipper, so this is as far as the circle skirt has gotten.
This is a moot point because I’ve switched over to an electronic calendar, but I need to point out to nearly all of the planner makers that the above is a better setup than five days the same size and Saturday/Sunday sharing one space. We have things to do on the weekend. Lots of things. It used to drive me crazy, having acres of space to write things Monday through Friday and then squeezing in the Saturday and Sunday details. Here Monday through Thursday share one page and the remaining three days share the other.
Yes indeed, it’s a few hours after the Academy Award announcements have been made and I have a handy spreadsheet to prioritize my viewing. As usual, I’m quite behind in my viewing, but I might be able to make a dent in the list by the time the ceremony rolls around. First up? Birdman, which Matt and I have been meaning to see since it came out.
Did you know we lived in a world with not just one, but three options for earplug dispensers? Me neither!