Thursday, February 22, 2007

Commuting (I can't drive 75?)

Since I am living in Portland now, but for some reason still working in Longview I have been commuting. And it is so awesome that I wanted to share a little story with you.
It all starts about a year and a half ago when I decided that it would be a good idea to be a "salary" guy at work. That's when the 50 hour work week started. Monday through Friday, ten hours a day. To get out of there by five, I had to be there at seven in the morning. After I think two days of working straight tens I decided that I needed to take a lunch during my day or I would go crazy. So begins the six in the morning start time. (Or six bells as S.A. says)
Now after I moved down to Portland I realized that I would still be working somewhat the same schedule. That meant getting up at 4:30 in the fookin morning. I would get on the road by 5 and be at work by 6.
This was all good and dandy until I started hitting the snooze button. For the last week and a half or so I have been leaving my house a little after 5 and then just set the cruise control to about 80. Good times.
Today I'm cruising along and I'm passing Woodland (pretty much halfway) when I notice that I just passed a police cruiser on the left hand side. He pulls in behind me, I lower the cruise control and he proceeds to follow me all the way to town. He quit following me about five minutes before I arrived at work (late by the way). About the time I'm rolling into my work's parking lot my heart started beating again. What a shitty way to start the morning.
Fast forward to 5 PM today. I'm cruising home and just about to Woodland again. When outoffuckingnowhere a police cruiser appears, lights ablazin. He goes from the right side of the freeway, across three lanes into my lane, slowing the whole time. I'm not going to lie but I pissed in my pants a little bit. I thought he was pulling me over for speeding. Instead he kept going through a little path in the highway median (how the f did he know that was there?) and turned North bound to follow somebody who was obviously going waaaay faster than me. Thank you that guy. I hope you got away.

OOPS

Biggest OOPS I have seen online in a long time.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Pork Tornado

It looks like Dusty from Pork Tornado has started posting again. If you get a chance to read this you should, I highly recommend it. This guy is fucking hilarious.
Gus, you're gonna have to throw this back on to the links.

wine tasting


Earl who works for an Italian wine importer in Portland serving up the 2nd of the reds on the list.

Cathy, Sandy, Abby, Barb and Ken (abbys parents)

Joni (mom), Mike, Gene (dad), Earl, Ashley (works at PNE who hosted the auction for Habitat for Humanity that our wine tasting purchase benefited)

Amy and Greg too.

I am behind the camera, so all you see is my wine. Lots of it.

and Mike M. (creator of the nickname Gus) sent in an old school link I thought I would share.
http://www.garbagepailkidsworld.com/





And here are a few pics from the wine tasting Abby and I hosted Saturday night. We almost emptied a case. Yipppeee!