But I don't think I'm ready yet...

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:27:47 GMT

I put Henry V on the netflix list a while ago because it had Judi Dench in it. I somehow ignored the fact that it was a version of the Shakespear play. I do alright with Shakey when I am reading it, with time to process what I am seeing, but hearing it I am fucking lost. I have the gist of whats going on, everyone hates France and Henry kills some dudes, but even the apparantly famous war speech was gobbledy to my brain.

Then some bitches come on screen.
Then some bitches start speaking French. For ten minutes.

I bet Henry fucks her later but man I dunno anymore.

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:47:01 GMT

We have commenced with the first shed today. They have doubled in size.

Meet my 200 new friends

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:00:07 GMT

Dinner with Morris

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:10:06 GMT

Actual conversation :

"The steak is fine, but they diddnt marinate it."

"We don't do that here. I'm suprised you haven't figured this out yet."

One minute re-enactment of Morris eating :

Raise eyebrow at steak. Prod. Prod with fork. Prod in different place. Slice tiny bit off edge. Inspect meat on fork. Eat. Flip steak over. Turn it around. Prod. Slice tiny bit off edge. Inspect meat on fork. Trim invisible bit of something off tiny slice. Eat. Flip steak. Turn. Prod. Prod again. Turn sideways with fork and knife to look at the edge. Cut fry in half and eat both bits off fork.
Repeat.

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:21:55 GMT

I have just managed to dump about 8oz of boiling tea onto my abdomen, resulting in a mild scald. I'm just that awesome.

So it's been a week since the place opened. I can see this working out pretty well in the long run. The owner is having some sort of weird "why arent we totally busy all the time" depression thing but M seems to be talking him out- of that one. Some of the things the guy does are weird though: We had Andy Carson doing his Good day oregon schtick from the restaurant this morning and Owner decided that he would do the 4am-6am part and then fuck off and leave M to talk about the place from 6-9. He left the chef to talk about his "life's dream." I hope he is just overwhelmed at this point because the alternative explanation is he has no fucking clue what he's doing.

We are down to one car, so days off tend to be stuck at home. I managed to do a mountain of laundry and actually clean something though.

Apart from having no sleep so I could be awake at 4am and accidentally being on tv, I've had a good day.

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 07:24:20 GMT

Thanks to a made for Sci-fi channel movie, I now know I have been pronouncing Wyvern incorrectly.

We've started selling off the restaurant stuff. Today the woman buying the super blender came by to get it, and brought her husband and three year old boy along. This kid is the boldest kidlet I have probably ever met, and still rather polite. He was hilarious.Thought the snake was great. Tried to get under the porch outside, then immediately shed his shoes when coming inside cause he "stepped in dirt".

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:44:59 GMT

The snow kinda threw a wrench in the plans today. It did bring the first semi truck stuck outside our house though. Which mostly just taught us that the people living out here are mostly assholes who will drive around people trying to get a truck out a ditch when there is very little room to pass.

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:37:08 GMT

A couch takes about five minutes to be snatched up on Craigslist. We have done an experiment.

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:05:13 GMT

Dude, why have I never noticed the Weasly twins in the Potter movies are hot pieces of ass?

A guy came by to nail a tarp to the roof. He only had one tarp, and it was mostly big enough. Now it sounds like people are racing office chairs on the roof. A team of dudes is coming out early next week to try and do a proper job of it.

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:06:51 GMT

Engine light came on in the car yesterday. I can't really afford to be concerned yet. M thinks it's clogged with leaves, which is possible if improbable. We have alot of leaves.

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:52:36 GMT

Man, I hate kitchener stitch. I always fuck something up.

We survived WIND STORM 09 somehow. The part of the roof that is peeling off is annoyingly the only part of the roof you can't get a good look at from the ground so I have no idea how bad the damage there is, but the maintenance guy has been informed. When he gets here he will be in for a few other surprises; the front of the bath downstairs fell off today. I had no idea it wasn't all one piece, and the owners had apparently stuck it on with masking tape. This is shortly after having the upstairs bath repaired because there was a golfball sized hole in the fucking pipe and it leaked water into the wall. That only took two months to do.

Seriously. This house.

The only trees we lost all fell down the hill onto the side of the road and someone has already come by and stolen them.
The power came back on at 2am Sunday morning, but went back out shortly after and did not come back till 8pm. It got very cold. Mom brought us wood for our fireplace, which must have been built for looks because it can't heat a room for crap.
Aerogarden, Fish, and Snake all seem mostly unaffected by the whole thing, although I did have to go out a couple times for handwarmers to put in cages and there was a minor worrying episode with fish tank water temperature.

I have been doing more knitting than is probably healthy since I became re-unemployed. And making tons of granola. At least it leaves me time to get really angry at taxes. When I came acrossed the line about deducting deducted deductions I had to take a break.

Christmas loot came in the form of a spinning wheel, so now all I need is my own sheeps.I'm not very good at it. I tend to make corkscrew yarn.

Yay for iPhone

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:10:14 GMT

Power has been off eight of the last twelve hours. We are now losing shingles off the roof. Closed the blinds on east facing windows to minimize glass spread if something flies through. Living in the gorge is getting stupid.

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:33:56 GMT

White Christmas always makes me tear up

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:52:00 GMT

This is part of the reason I cannot get into town.

Thankfully this is the non working car.

More on flickr

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:26:17 GMT

We woke up this morning to find the power off. Guessing it had been off for two hours or so before we got up, the house was about 60 and quickly dropped to 54.
The hill has been kept plowed and they lay grit down pretty regularly. This would be more useful if there werent a three foot drift at the gate entrance. I've started digging us out just in case, the ominous snow shovel we found in the garage when moving in has come into play. I84 is closed anyway, so the only way into town would be the historic highway.
Power keeps blipping off for a few seconds here and there. House is almost up to 68. We're wired for a generator, and its looking like that might have been a good idea. Threw some soup into the crockpot so we have warm food for a while if needed.
One large tree near the road has come down and gone down the hill. If we lose any more they at least shouldn't hit the house with the wind blowing east.

I still feel really bad about the yard birds, they are having a hard time. Anything I put out to shelter them would just blow away.

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:36:44 GMT

Power is blinking on and off now. That took longer than I thought.

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:21:25 GMT

It's like they carry birdie superglue with them. Pretty wild near the end. Poor dudes. Dunno why its doing the embedded content thing.

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:26:45 GMT

The past couple days have been really beautiful in a christmas card kinda way. I'm not used to snow that sticks around more than six hours, so days of it has been neat. The birds that come to the feeder have been in overdrive and we had a mystery mammal leave tracks last night.
Today is really shitty though. It's still snowing but its also windy as hell. The poor birds are alternating between trying to eat and huddling against the wall.

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:15:31 GMT

So uh, I was going to post about how fucking cold it is up here and how we got studded tires that make the car sound like a tank...

As we were getting ready to leave work tonight, the smoke alarms in the bedrooms upstairs started going off. Ryan the server got them to stop by opening as many windows and doors as he could. The two of us were talking to some guests downstairs near the fireplace when we noticed smoke coming out of the corner of the wall. This was mysterious but we figured it's windy as shit and the fireplace is old as hell so it's probably just backdraft. Ryan decided to get a trash can to put the burning logs into and it would be good.

Get home and call up to tell them that the roads are not icy. It wasnt a long conversation because apparantly the Inn is now on fire.

As of now, we know that the main dining room is fine, the kitchen is fine, the office is smoked out but fine, the dishwasher is in a pile on the floor, and part of the wall in the dish room is gone. They are currently trying to determine if it was electrical or the fireplace.

We will not be open as planned on wednesday.

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:48:08 GMT

So, Twilight. Heard of it?

The books are good enough for young reader fluff (I loved them) and the movie is opening tonight at midnight. They filmed the end of the movie up at work last year, so we had a movie opening prom type event. The event was hilariously fun, seems women over thirty are more likely to start catfights than girls aged fourteen to nineteen.

The worst part? Getting up at 5:30 am to cook food for Good Day Oregon. And then I was suckered into being on tv briefly. Again.

Speaking of which, NBC is still telling us they will air the segment they shot, but I'm thinking maybe it's not happening.

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:04:30 GMT

Aaand now it's airing monday, what with tomorrow being some sort of holiday and all

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:49:56 GMT

The spot is actually airing friday now. We're getting 3:28 of airtime which is a hell of alot I guess.

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:37:43 GMT

I am having a hard time choosing a senator

Becoming an Oregonian has mostly just left me irritated with buying gas and having ten foot long receipts when I buy soda. This senator thing aint helping. Do I go with Smith, who has been doing this forever and does a decent enough job even if he was in bed with Bush? Or do I go for Merkley who has some good ideas and is backed by my presidential canidate of choice?
I was all for Merkley till I caught the end of the debate they had last week. Dude sounds like a douchebag.

I have no idea.

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:18:25 GMT

Hello massive government takeover of Washington Mutual. Good thing I am well under the fdic insurance limit.

Real Conversation

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:25:15 GMT

G: What the hell is this?
M: Hockey.
G: Lawn hockey?
M: Yeah, the Indians are really good at it.
G: How long has lawn hockey been a sport? Is cricket in the olympics?
M: No.