Pictures from Boise

We call this old man, my Granpa. I think he's my mother's father.

These two freaks are my younger sisters. They get their looks from their fathers. They're probably embarrased.

Enjoy!!!!!

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So close to leaving Portland

Having had many flights cancelled and rebooked and cancelled again, then rebooked the Portland airport feels like a bad wine hangover. Like somebody frozen and thawed over and over again. The vacuous parking lots covered in snowy slush and ten foot high piles of snow plow pileup along the runways, suggest an organism scrambling to get it's shit together. But people are relieved, smiling a little and generally feeling like they might just make it out of here. We were in line for over an hour, and a woman fell over. Folks didn't know when they could approach the kiosks and the people behind the counter seemed happy just to avoid being shouted at for the first time in days.

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It's Christmas, and we're ready to board our flight. Being stuck in the house for a few days, with Tiff and my sister, who also has been delayed in returning home, is an opportunity to reflect and remember why I am with Tiff. We get annoyed with one another, yell a little bit, never really feeling mean and in the end it turns out that we still like each other - even when we're trapped in the house for a week.

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We did venture out after our friends lent us some chains for the car. Driving around in the snow is so much fun. It's too bad that Tiffani hates being in the car in the snow, cause I can pull some serious cookies when allowed. We had a nice little gift exchange last night and I received some new clothes. I always get clothes, even when I want motorcycles and bike parts and video games. . . I do like the clothes.

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2008 was a good year, my Mom beat Cancer. I started at PSU and passed a very difficult Japanese class. Tiffani has been very fit and happy, and I avoided death on the Hawthorne Bridge.

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It's snowing a lot right now, and everybody is sort of staring out the windows of the airport at the flakes with a laser glare. Maybe if we all hate those flakes enough, they'll melt and we'll make it out of here.

Cancelled. . .

Yep, looks like we're staying home for awhile longer.
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Snow!

We were supposed to be headed to Boise this morning at 8am. Our flight was cancelled, and luckily we found out yesterday. We were able to book tickets on the flight today that leaves at 4:15. Our car is frozen solid. My truck is buried under drift and it looks like we're walking to the bus stop. I am so glad that it's only 4 blocks. We don't have snow clothes, or boots and the suitcase that Tiff is packing is 3ft X 5ft X 1ft! I don't know why we need so much stuff in Boise, but I guess all of our families' gifts are in there. The folks on the news keep saying the same thing, which is basically that it's cold. All Southwest flights before 2:45 are cancelled. I sure hope we get out of town today! Hopefully my next post will be from Boise!

Damn you Orson, damn you!

I just watched Orson Welles' version of The Trial. It seems that shitty movie versions of great stories is nothing new. I hate this movie. You cannot change the ending of a story like this for the film adaptation without doing a disservice to the origin. GRRR! This is one of my favorite books. They added all this sexy bullshit and then change the personality of the main character and then the ending is a complete fabrication. Oh well. Not even the birthday is right!

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I've taken another snow day and I'm hoping tomorrow is the same. I slept late today and had steak and eggs for breakfast along with coffee nudges and this movie, which I've been trying to make it through for a couple days. I haven't ridden my bike in over a week and I'm thinking that I might have lost the skill. . .

Cold Weather Update

The freeze is here, and I don't need to talk about it aside from saying that I am thankful that I had a hundred pounds of sand in the car today. After work I was not going to make it out of the parking lot due to the ice. I poured that sand all over and made it out no sweat.

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Been holed up watching bad movies, worse TV and eating what we have left in the house. Listening to a lot of cold weather music. Low, Bon Iver and the 1st Testface record. Good stuff all of it. Brrr. School was cancelled yesterday on account of the snow and it's looking like it might be cancelled Thursday and Friday. I don't especially need to go to work tomorrow either. I've read everything I have in the house and I haven't ridden my bike in a week. I gotta say, I'm feeling shut in. So it goes. Time for some hot chocolate. Stay warm out there.