Gilmore Girls: Actors in Bit Parts Before They Were Famous in Other Roles

My feelings about Gilmore Girls are complex and ever evolving, but it’s very fun when I get to say, “Hey! Look at that!” In the case of season four, episode 4, it’s (depending on your reference point) Sherriff Leo from Veronica Mars, or Schmidt from New Girl.

Here he plays a guy named Luke who is at Dean’s bachelor party. The guy in the sailor suit standing next to him is Chauncey Leopardi, who played Alan White on Freaks and Geeks (among other things). He has a couple of very funny scenes in Gilmore Girls.

I also saw Rami Malek in an episode of Season 3.

First In-Office Day. Cheesy Bread Was Necessary

Reinforcing how much I like working from home, my first day back in the office wasn’t great. It rained on me both ways, so I was soaking wet. My coworker gave me an earful about how people ask too many questions when I was looking for conformation that I had the right desk, the mouse I brought didn’t work, my computer randomly shutdown midday and took about 15 minutes of work with it, and plus the general awkwardness of a first day, compounded by the fact that I have been working for the company for more than a year.

I stopped by Little Caesar’s on the way home.

A nice thing about my company is that they don’t require me to work in the office. I will try out a once weekly visit for six months and reevaluate.

Freestyle Love Supreme at the Armory

Matt and I both enjoyed the documentary Freestyle Love Supreme, both for seeing people in the Hamilton world before Hamilton (baby Lin-Manuel!) and for the marvel that is hip hop improv.

So imagine my surprise when I discovered that we could see the show in Portland!

This was a double win as I discovered that Portland Center Stage offers a smattering of seats for every show at $25 each. A very big discount. (They are on the sides, but it’s a worthy tradeoff, as far as I’m concerned.)

The above two pictures were taken before the show and these two were taken during the part of the show where we were allowed to take pictures.

The stage set was amazing. All those speakers lit up and changed colors. And the hip hop improv was also amazing and very funny.

This is well worth your time! Check out the documentary or see Freestyle Love Supreme live, if you can.

Not Going into Work Tomorrow

There are some parts of the country where snow on April 11 isn’t weird. But Portland is not one of those places!

And unlike every other Portland snowstorm where forecasted snow is the talk of the town for a week straight, I had no idea this was coming. The morning of, I somehow missed noticing the snow when I opened my bedroom shade, and even as the radio announcer was saying “Snow in Portland right now,” I though he just meant the West Hills.

So you can imagine my surprise when I opened the curtains and, Wow! Snow! In April!

That bush in the picture leaned right over. I think it was the weight of the snow on the leafed-out limbs plus the fact that the ground wasn’t frozen. Once the snow melted, we hammered in a post and pulled it right back into place, so no harm done there.

Needless to say, I put off my plan to go back to the office until the next Tuesday.

Marge duMonde’s Cow Cards

I found a stack of these postcards at Scrap at ten cents apiece. They are perfect for the messages I’m sending to my friend about each episode of the Gilmore Girls because I can write on the back and spill onto the front, if I need to.

The message on the front of the card amuses me, though a friend did mention an opportunity was missed by not saying Saturday Moooovies.

One of them came with writing on it, though I didn’t notice until I got it home.

I couldn’t find anything online about Marge duMond (at least not this one) but I didn’t do an extensive search.

Anyway, these cards are so great, I went back and bought 100 more of them. So thank you to Marge for making them.

Unearthing the Tiffin

Ah, that lovely time when I got laid off from my job and happily put away all my accoutrements that had to do with going into the office.

I’m going to start going into my company’s Portland office one day a week, so I pulled out my tiffin so I could drag my lunch along with me.

I do enjoy the compactness of this design.

Tiffins hold a lot of food, though. And near the end of my last in-office job, I discovered that I could cut a circle out of plastic and divide up the different parts of my lunch so that I only had to bring the top part.

Podcast Project: Postcard Update

I’ve been watching Gilmore Girls and then listening to the Gilmore Guys podcast after each episode. This means I have to find something to do while listening, and since it’s been so cold, weeding is out. So for the first time in years, I have updated my postcard display.

Many of these postcards are from when Sara was in grad school. She’s had her PhD for three years now, so you can see how they have piled up.

In a perfect world, I would automatically update them once I had 40 new postcards to display. But after this update, I have a backlog of more than 40. So these will stay for a few months and then we shall see what happens.