First day in Portland, and I decided to go walking. Here is the route and here are some pictures:
http://www.flickr.com:80/photos/scaleovenstove/sets/72157600300727448/
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In Portland
Last night around 8:30 PST I made it into Portland, so the Journey is over. 1630 or so miles, 1 night layover.
Left on Thursday at 1:15 PM CST, drove from Sartell, MN to Miles City, MT – arrived around 9:30 PM MST.
Left Miles City, MT on Friday at around 6:30 AM MST and drove, drove, drove.
Not to many debacles, which is good. One time driving down the mountains, had to stop quick and a box or two got shifted. In Missoula, some stoner walking around invited me to stay in town and go see the “hot babes” on main street.
One thing I noticed, which is funny, at the gas stations, instead of asking if you want a bag for any groceries, they ask if you want a sack. WTF? 🙂
Right now I am crashing at Emily’s studio until I can get into my apt, later next week. She is working right now, so today I will be bumming around Portland. I am impressed, I found her place with no map, just bumbling around.
Still getting adjusted to the time difference, right now it is 5:52 AM 🙂
Here are some pics from along the way :
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On the road to Oregon – Twittering as I go
I have been updating Twitter as I drive out to Portland.
http://twitter.com/scaleovenstove
I am in Miles City, MT right now, at a hotel. Will head out early in the morning.
This is how much I have left:
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Out of the Apartment..into the Hotel
Today I moved out of my apartment in Sartell. They really thought it was clean, I am getting my full deposit back! Right now I am in a hotel in Sartell, just getting my laptop up and running, before I walk over to G-Allen’s for a Going Away party. Should be a good time! Tomorrow, show my head into work, go to lunch, and hit the trail!
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More YouTube, Baby's In Black
Well, I bought a good digital camera yesterday. A Panasonic Lumix, 7.1 megapixel. Has the lithium ion battery, etc. I picked up a 2.0 GB SD card as well. Time to get my pictures on! I really wanted it so I could take tons of pictures going out to Oregon plus once I am out there.
Well, yesterday sitting waiting to go out to eat with my Dad, I started playing guitar. We tried out the video portion of the new camera. Takes pretty decent video, only thing the format is Quicktime .MOV – man. Now I might have to get Quicktime Pro or some other converter so I can edit these movies, they come out HUGE, like 100 MB, and YouTube has a 100 MB limit!!
Anyways, here is the video:
Man what a debacle to embed video in wordpress, had to install a plugin!
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Wii Golf: Hole in One!
Was playing some Wii Golf (which I never play, this was the second time) and on the second easy hole, I scored a hole in one! Awesome!!
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Jeff Lee, this one is for you
As you can see, instead of making sure I look good after going to the bathroom at the Red Carpet, I am either really drunk and look like a guy from the 50’s in black in white, or The Receders have adverts plastered everywhere. Too bad I will be on the road by the 31st (the day of the show)
To quote Weird Al’s song White and Nerdy – “I could sure kick your butt in a game of ping pong!”
Well, maybe not.
But, I am getting better. We had a tournament a few months ago at work and I got schooled. I haven’t played Ping Pong since way back in the day at the Chisholm Rec in the summer, and then, I was good.
So, knowing I am moving soon and I won’t have a lot of time to hang out with some people at work that are good friends, I decided to play ping pong at least once a day.
I usually play Chris and Brad. At first I would maybe win 1 out 3 games, usually the last one (winner takes 2, but we usually play 3 just for kicks). Well today I finally won 2 out of 3. You see, Brad and Chris are like playing every day for months, crazy. Surprised they aren’t going to quit to become professional ping-pong players. All I can say is Chris – Brad smoked you today, and I beat him, so you know what that means. No going downstairs just to volley, this isn’t Nam, there are rules, dude.
Anyways, it’s a good time. I am pretty picky on my paddle, ball, and even the table. We have two tables at work and one is really dark, and there is a space below the net – I hate that table. There are some paddles that are just really bad, the new ones they got are nice. Some balls are heavier, I really don’t like those, or the colored one (like basketballs, etc) – just plain ol white is good 🙂
It is a good time and a fun way to break up the day, for sure. Out in Portland I am going to have to find a place to play. PPPP (Portland Ping Pong Players?)
Here is a video of our latest match:
Ok, yeah, we are crazy I know. I am in the Red 🙂
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