• Apple 59 and a moving date

    Things are moving so fast. I’m a bit dazed and confused. Though we have planned for this move for a billion and one years, it seems to be coming upon us so fast. I feel like I’m in the middle of a tornado, and I’m driving the thing, but just barely. I ate apple number…

  • apples 57 and 58, and packing up

    I head back to SF tomorrow morning. Today I am getting some work done, doing some laundry, and taking some extra stuff to the storage place I rented. I leave early tomorrow and then have to stop off along the way for a conference call. That should be fun. I’ve been scouting out all the…

  • Our house

    We rented a house in the Sellwood/Moreland neighborhood of Portland. It’s such a beautiful house. We are both in shock still I think. When we talked about coming here, we had this long laundry list of nice to haves, and this house and neighborhood has delivered the entire list, plus some nice extras I thought…

  • Best roommate ever

    This is Chanel, for sale she bows on command and is ridiculously cute. She flunked out of guide dog school but I this she is a genius.

  • Holy crap I want that house

    Ok, before I start talking about the house, I had apples 55 and 56 today. They were Pinova’s. They are all over the place here and I’ve never seen them in SF. Now for the house. I really shouldn’t be getting excited about it because they are doing a first come first serve thing on…

  • The neighborhood test

    I’m at the cup and saucer cafe scoping out the neighborhood. There’s a house just 6 blocks from here that might be a contender. What better way to test out the hood than to put their fried eggs to the test.

  • Landed in Portland (apples 53 and 54)

    I’m here and I’m exhausted. I can’t believe I’m not sleeping right now. I got into town yesterday and was greeted warmly by my new city. Young handsome men helped me unload my car, people gave me books, other people laughed at everything I said, I never knew I was so entertaining! I had tea,…

  • This weekend we did lots of packing and getting ready for my trip. I ate apple 51 while taking a break from packing. It was a pink lady and it was delicious. I’m in yreka now and was expecting to have Internet connection so I could post a nice long entry, but alas the internets…

  • I'm waiting for my man

    I’m not really waiting for my man, I’m just waiting for this slow-arse database connection to go ahead and hurry the eff up so I can check my last change and go home. I spent too much time today dilly dallying when I knew that all the stuff on my plate today equated to a…

  • apples 49 and 50

    Guess what? All my computer problems are resolved and I am now able to work anywhere I can find internet access. All I need is my laptop and my tiny external drive. It’s a pretty empowering feeling. I’m now scrambling to get as much work done as I can before I leave so I don’t…

  • aples 47 and 48 and slow progress

    I am still trying to get my computer all set up for me to work on from anywhere I can get internet access. This is not an easy task but the pay off is potentially huge. It means I can work from home, from the library, from a cafe, and not from a gray, lonely…

  • Apple number 46

    This must be the part of my resolution when I don’t feel like doing it anymore. I still feel like eating apples, I just don’t feel like talking about it, which I suppose was never part of the original deal anyway. I said all I really had to do was eat them and count them.…

  • Apple 45 on a Sunday night

    We went to Half Moon Bay yesterday to finally use our Gift Certificate from Tom and Sue. We always have to get a sandwich at the San Benito House sandwich shop regardless of whether we are hungry or not. We had jst eaten a large breakfast at Howard’s on 9th and Irving so we decided…

  • Apple 44 at the Academy of Sciences

    We visited the Academy of Sciences on Saturday with LeeAnn and Dean. After a long trek through the rainforests of Borneo, decease we stopped for a refreshing lemonade and an apple. Oddly enough, the apple was more tart than the lemonade. I enjoyed it anyway and jovially tossed it into the compost bins. Wish I…

  • Apple 43 and still dead in the water

    My dev box is still down. The hard drive still works just barely so we are trying to make a copy of it before it completely crashes and burns. So I spent the entire day de-installing apps to try and fit the thing on another drive the exact same size. I will never understand the…