Carolyn lost a glove

Julie and I just got back from our trip to run the Portland Marathon. We both finished before they closed the course and had fun telling friendly Portlanders how long a marathon is while wearing our medals around town. Our friends came down from Tacoma to watch.


We ate Sushi Pizza which was excellent.


and visited a giant Zen garden.



I said to the guy at the youth hostel where we rented our bikes, "I bet with this helmet on I don't look like a tourist at all." He reassured me lots of Portlanders wear these helmets. What do you think? Tourist or Portland Hipster?

The Bailout Plan

According to the NY times, "After the overnight drafting efforts on both sides of Capitol Hill — with pizza on the House side, and Thai food in the Senate — Democratic officials said they had completed a unified draft of a bill." I hope Republicans weren't eating any Thai food, that sounds ELITE, I wonder if they had it with ARUGULA.
It took almost ten years to increase the minimum wage and it looks like only one week to bail out the financial system to the tune of $700 billion. This will be passed quicker than rescue workers got to Katrina victims, faster than John McCain can ride the Straight Talk Express back to Washington to rescue the economy, swifter than Obama can be Swift-boated by the same guy who did Kerry.

Gotta go, time to water the sidewalk.

Feeding Time at the Zoo

There is a great article in the NY times titled, "6 food mistakes parents make." Hopefully the link will work, if not email me and I will send you the article.
The article advises parents to sex up food to get your kid to eat, "Adding a little butter, ranch dressing, cheese sauce or brown sugar to a vegetable dish can significantly improve its kid appeal." I can't get Carolyn to eat vegetables using this technique, so I've been putting cheese sauce on her butter and she eats it likes its her job. Also, she LOVES ranch dressing on her brown sugar, in fact I'm thinking of putting her on the condiment diet, or maybe the white condiment diet to narrow, mayonnaise, cream cheese, sour cream, ranch dressing.

Summer 2008

During the summer Carolyn went from only this big....






to almost weighing as much as Pablo.



We're back on the blog-o-sphere and will make up for a dismal showing all summer with a stronger more rugged showing for the last of 2008, so stay tuned...

Somethings pretty funny

Lately, the weather here has been rainy and cold, so Carolyn and I are stuck in the house. We could sit in the basement and watch, "Rescue Me," on DVD which is a show I highly recommend except it's not exactly G rated. Instead, we play upstairs and listen to AM talk radio. "Why would a good yuppie like Montanadad not just listen to NPR all day?" you might ask. Apparently, Montanans can't get enough Jazz because except for the morning and noon news, that's all they play on NPR. My choices for AM talk radio are unlimited. There's Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, and Michael Savage. It's hard to believe there's such a thing as the "liberal media," when those are my choices. Sometimes it gets so hard to listen to, it makes us eat dirt.