Barenaked Ladies Are Me

Saturday night, Rick took me to the Barenaked Ladies concert at the Rose Garden in Portland. I was not sure what to expect. I like them, but only have recently started to admit it. However, all I can say is if you get a chance to go see them in person jump on it. It was an amazing show. They are really funny and sound wonderful live.
They did a bunch of stuff from their older albums and they played my favorite song from the new album too.

All In the Name of ...

Science

Via ***Dave and Les

Snow of Sorts

It's been cold cold cold here the last few days. They'd been calling for snow down to 500 feet (yes I know that's underground in Colorado). The people out here are funny when they start talking about winter weather. The break into every show on the television to give updates. They don't have a lot of snow removal equipment and don't do much as far as sanding/salting etc. I took this picture this afternoon to show what we got. It didn't manage to stick around for very long, but it's supposed to try again tonight. I guess we'll see what happens. The city will likely shut down if we do get anything. Rick will get to stay home, but I'll have to keep working.

Pure Geek

47 % Nerd, 82% Geek, 21% Dork

For The Record:



A Nerd is someone who is passionate about
learning/being smart/academia.

A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular
area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.

A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common
social expectations/interactions.


You scored better than half in Geek,
earning you the title of: Pure Geek.



It's not that you're a school junkie, like the nerd,
and you don't really stand out in a crowd, like the dork,
you just have some interests that aren't quite mainstream.
Perhaps it's anime, perhaps it's computers, perhaps it's bottlecaps,
perhaps it's all of those and more.
Your interests take you to events and gatherings that are filled
with people you find unusual and beyond-the-pale, but you don't
quite consider yourself "of that crowd."
Instead, you consider yourself to be fairly normal.



Which, you are.



Congratulations! You're the one on the RIGHT!
THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST

Soon we will need to build an ark

Contrary to popular belief, it really doesn't rain ALL the time in the Pacific Northwest. It doesn't even really rain most of the time. The last couple of days have really tried to prove the belief to be a fact. It's rained, and rained, and rained some more. Since November 1st, we've had more rain than we had the entire month of October, and probably pretty close to the entire month of September too. Over 5 inches of rain in 5 days. Don't get me wrong, I love the rain. I also like the fact that it's been in the 60s, so it's been a lovely warm rain, but enough is enough already. I'll have to deal with this off and on all winter so I guess I should be prepared. I'm just not ready yet.

Rainfall totals from November 1 through November 6 include:

* Stampede Pass, WA - 13.90"
* Log Creek, OR - 12.45"
* Yacolt, WA - 9.62"
* Astoria, OR - 8.23"
* Portland, OR/Vancouver, WA - 5.67"

We're having a brief break right this moment, but it's supposed to start back up before the end of the night. More rain is forecast for the next week as well.
My grass has started to sprout weird looking mushroom things, as seen in the picture at the right. I have no idea what they could be. I'd cut back on the water...but...I don't think I have that kind of power.
Wish me luck on staying dry.