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Drank too much and played some pool on Friday. Proved to myself that I suck at pool. Handling a cue isn't one of those activities that you can put away for a decade or two and then pick up with the same level of skill. Hah. Can you say embarrassing? Of course you can.

I haven't been feeling too well lately. Something just doesn't feel...
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Went to OpenSpace in downtown Portland on Friday for a couple of bands and a suspension performance by Mark Batty. It was kinda long and slow, but you got to love seeing folks with three foot long skewers through their shoulders and hips and thighs, etc.. And it is always fun to watch girls hanging from hooks -- artistically, of course.

The Fourth was a...
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My wife and I have found a local bar in walking distance that we have adopted as our own. Everybody needs a local. This one is actually a pool hall, but that is only a plus. The employees are all twisted freaks and they welcomed us as their own. Oh, and the food is unbelievably good.

Definitely the best food I've ever had in a...
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Some times I wonder if I was destined to be a part of this site. I seem to be missing the proper clues: an SG expresses what I consider distress and I respond sympathetically and then they complain that it was a joke and anybody who thought different is obviously a joke, too.

Or: I make a joke in response to a posting, only to...
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Focus is everything.

Our first month in Portland has been amazing. The weather has been great and so has our exploration around the city. Our neighborhood is full of cool houses, lots of kids, and is in walking distance of a lot of interesting shit.

We are slowly working our way through the area, discovering restaurants and shops and distractions aplenty. Even the local Trader Joe's is more...
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Woo! I arrived 8 days ago in Portland. The movers came and went. My sweet wife arrived. The cats arrived. The car arrived yesterday. Now all that's left is a mountain of boxes to unpack. UNPACK?? I just packed the fuckers. Aaiiiieeee!

I'm exhausted, but happy -- which is slightly different than being exhausted and butt happy.

Well, we are about to start our final week in Virginia. The movers are coming mid-week and I'll be loading a truck full of books and household shit for my cross-country drive to Portland, and we'll be outta here for good.

We've got a wonderful little house in Portland and we are REALLY looking forward to having all this trauma over with. We have been...
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Three weeks left until we are out of this house. The chaos that is swirling aroung this place is making me dizzy. I've been packing and packing and there still seems to be so much to do. How the hell did I ever accumulate so much stuff? Do you think my evil twin has been out picking up shit on the street when I'm asleep...
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Well, we just got back from a week in Portland. We found and rented a wonderful bungalow house in the Hollywood neighborhood. Six block from the light rail, nine blocks from a great comic book store and a ten minute drive from the Hawthorne district.

We'll be moving in about a month. Now all we have to do is finish packing and try and print...
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