And we're off!
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urbpanTomorrow morning around zero o'clock, we're setting off for Portland, Oregon; This is a long overdue but all too short visit to a city I've heard about and discussed and developed a crush on despite never getting closer than Seattle.
My computer is down to about one third brain power, meaning that it takes about ten minutes to open a picture file in photoshop from iPhoto, and if a web browser is on too the whole thing grinds to a halt. My lack of focus simply will not let me close all the programs except the ones I'm using most at that moment, so this will not stand. Suffice it to say, I'm not taking the thing on our trip. We'll bring Alexis' computer. I know, I know, how can survive a five day trip with only one laptop? I'll make up for it by watching a millisecond of every show on cable as I scroll up the dial on our hotel tv.
Anyway, I'll hold off on those yellowstone pictures. At this rate you should be seeing pictures from our trip to Portland sometime around when we go to Antigua for Xmas. (We are going to antigua for xmas, right, Alexis? just planting seeds...) Maybe I'll post some more hilarious voice posts, and I'll keep up with the cell phone snapshots, too. Portland has a lot of urban wildlife I want to talk about, so I'll take pictures with my real camera and try to think of some intelligent things to say about it. Actually, it never works that way--instead, I just get fascinated by some aspect of it that seems really stupid to everyone else (black vultures eating palm fruit in Costa Rica; Pigeons on the Galapagos and Easter Island; Fireweed and gulls in Alaska) and write about that. I write best when I'm genuinely obsessed and pouring it back out. Something will catch my eye (and my mind) that I'm not expecting.
And since Portland is essentially out of the running for a place for Alexis and I to live, on account of its allegedly cloudy weather from September to April, what do you all know about Redding, California?
My computer is down to about one third brain power, meaning that it takes about ten minutes to open a picture file in photoshop from iPhoto, and if a web browser is on too the whole thing grinds to a halt. My lack of focus simply will not let me close all the programs except the ones I'm using most at that moment, so this will not stand. Suffice it to say, I'm not taking the thing on our trip. We'll bring Alexis' computer. I know, I know, how can survive a five day trip with only one laptop? I'll make up for it by watching a millisecond of every show on cable as I scroll up the dial on our hotel tv.
Anyway, I'll hold off on those yellowstone pictures. At this rate you should be seeing pictures from our trip to Portland sometime around when we go to Antigua for Xmas. (We are going to antigua for xmas, right, Alexis? just planting seeds...) Maybe I'll post some more hilarious voice posts, and I'll keep up with the cell phone snapshots, too. Portland has a lot of urban wildlife I want to talk about, so I'll take pictures with my real camera and try to think of some intelligent things to say about it. Actually, it never works that way--instead, I just get fascinated by some aspect of it that seems really stupid to everyone else (black vultures eating palm fruit in Costa Rica; Pigeons on the Galapagos and Easter Island; Fireweed and gulls in Alaska) and write about that. I write best when I'm genuinely obsessed and pouring it back out. Something will catch my eye (and my mind) that I'm not expecting.
And since Portland is essentially out of the running for a place for Alexis and I to live, on account of its allegedly cloudy weather from September to April, what do you all know about Redding, California?
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Date: 2008-08-08 01:42 am (UTC)Your pictures are worth waiting for!