My mom mentioned this yesterday, though I didn’t see it online and I’m too lazy to do a deep search: there is now apparently one realtor for every 200 people in Bend, according to The Bulletin. Wow.
I figure this should be good fodder for the newish Bend, Oregon Housing Bubble blog.
There was a magnitude 4.5 earthquake off of Oregon’s coast this morning. Interesting. Not a huge one—not enough to strike up a tsunami—but a good reminder that a big one could hit at any time.
I never did get any comments on my poll the other day…
Is this thing on? :)
It was a whirlwind tour of Portland, but we managed to make the most of it. We did some quick shopping in Gresham on the way in, stopped to visit with our friends for a bit (had to take over some of my pumpkin ale for a missed birthday), and then went out to lunch at the Horse Brass.
The Horse Brass rules. Seriously. It’s an English pub, with a ton of beers on tap, real darts, English food, the works. We had a tasty lunch (never had a Scotch egg before—it was good), tasty beer, and when we were finished, we stopped in to Belmont Station and picked up some harder-to-find beers.
Afterwards, I was able to go to Powells for a little bit (“a little bit” is relative, because my ideal visit to Powells would quite easily be half a day), but didn’t find anything I wanted to spend that much money on.
We checked in to the hotel, relaxed for a few minutes, met with our friends who were also going to the concert, and then went to BJ’s Brewhouse for dinner. It was good, although slow, and the service was ditzy at best. I have to say, though, they’re seven taster deal is amazing: seven five-ounce(!) tasters of beer for only $7.25.
And, finally, the concert. We walked to the Rose Garden, entered without fanfare, found our seats. A local Portland band was playing the opening gig (they won a contest), I didn’t catch their name but I wasn’t paying close attention anyway. We had to move around seats a bit because when the tickets were purchased, the available seats remaining were single seats two rows apart (of course!), and after playing musical chairs trying to figure out the best place to see (and—damn it—missing a good portion of one of the classical Bon Jovi songs that everyone is actually there to see), the usher got permission to seat my wife and me in the announcer box seats at the top of the section—otherwise roped off to everyone else. That was pretty cool, because the view was much better and we weren’t surrounded by screaming fans.
As far as the concert itself, it was decent. Two songs they performed that they didn’t do last time were “Runaway” (eh) and “Blaze of Glory” (cool!). And, Jon had a lot more audience interaction—the first song was from amidst the crowd in the back rows of the floor seats, and “Blaze of Glory” was amidst the crowd at our level one section over from us. The most amazing part? He wasn’t mauled by the crowd. :)
Okay, this is getting long. I’ll leave you with this writeup of the concert—with pictures.
On Sunday we’ll be heading up to Portland to see Bon Jovi in concert at the Rose Garden. Yes, we’ve done this before (warning: I sound like a drooling fanboy in that post).
Anyway, we’re casting about for something to do Sunday after we get to Portland… we’ll be seeing some friends, probably, and of course my wife would love to do some shopping. Myself, I don’t really have any real plan; I like going to Powells and I wouldn’t mind hitting a brewpub or two, but I’m pretty open.
Would any Portland bloggers want to meet up? I’m not promising anything, but you never know. ;)
For that matter, any bloggers/readers going to see Bon Jovi too?
Since I’m tired of waiting on Simone for a new site design :), I thought I’d start playing around with it myself. It’s just high time things got refreshed around here. So, I thought I’d run my early attempts by everyone, and ask a few questions.
The big change is converting the site to a stylesheet-driven design rather than a table-based one. I also want the clutter reduced, and to remove unnecessary features.
You can see a bit of what I’m doing on the project page and the archive page. So far the primary changes you’ll see are on the sidebar, I haven’t really re-worked the header much yet (but I will).
So, the questions:
Don’t pull any punches, either. I can take it! :)
There’s a whole bunch of stuff I’ll bet you never knew about Chuck Norris.
Guns don’t kill people. Chuck Norris kills people.
There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of animals Chuck Norris allows to live.
Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.
Chuck Norris doesn’t read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.
Chuck Norris can lead a horse to water AND make it drink.
If you ask Chuck Norris what time it is, he always says, “Two seconds ’til.” After you ask, “Two seconds ’til what?” he roundhouse kicks you in the face.
Chuck Norris can win a game of Connect Four in only three moves.
Chuck Norris originally appeared in the “Street Fighter II” video game, but was removed by Beta Testers because every button caused him to do a roundhouse kick. When asked bout this “glitch,” Norris replied, “That’s no glitch.”
Chuck Norris CAN believe it’s not butter.
Some people wear Superman pajamas. Superman wears Chuck Norris pajamas.
Chuck Norris is currently suing MySpace for taking the name of what he calls everything around you.
If at first you don’t succeed, you’re not Chuck Norris.
Google won’t search for Chuck Norris because it knows you don’t find Chuck Norris, he finds you.
When Chuck Norris does division, there are no remainders.
Chuck Norris sold his soul to the devil for his rugged good looks and unparalleled martial arts ability. Shortly after the transaction was finalized, Chuck roundhouse-kicked the devil in the face and took his soul back. The devil, who appreciates irony, couldn’t stay mad and admitted he should have seen it coming. They now play poker every second Wednesday of the month.
Just had to point it out (even my wife noticed it): this week’s book on Lost was The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
It’s going on the list…
