Box of Whine

Apparently, if you take the long way to LaPine and take the more direct way back, it’s still unbelievably long. Still, one of the other coaches and I did take the opportunity to name every player. From the top of my head: Read more »

I’m not sure what I found more interesting; was it that a student was trying to defend how the swastika is “cool” or that I could easily hear Jay-Z’s “Big Pimpin’” being blasted from her headphones. Read more »

Although, today, while on Cogburg in the Eug’, the guy doing the “come hither” wave was a nice variation, yet ineffective. Read more »

Just a heads up: my phone is dead. I heard some dirty words on it and tried to wash it.

Let the mocking begin. Read more »

As of this evening (6:45?), I will be officially 27 years old. It’s funny how time progresses in a linear motion; honestly, I never sat around and thought, “When I’m 27…”, and yet here it is. I know that this next phrase will get a bunch of “well, at least you’re not X years old like me”, but I feel old. Time seems to speed up as each year is tacked on. It felt like I was a kid forever and then high school seemed to drag on, then college went pretty quickly, and here I am and my twenties are almost over. Read more »

Like witnessing a double solar eclipse, both long-time friend Greg Miller and long-time cousin, Jaeger are visiting. Greg drove out from New York, via Pittsburg, Las Vegas, and Sacramento. Jaeger came via Philly. We’ve made a couple of coast runs (speaking of which, Miller testifies to the chowder supremacy of Mo’s) and witnessed a couple of Portland Beaver loses to the Albuquerque Isotopes.

By far, the best was the run to Astoria today, take a peak: Read more »

Seize the summer.
The first couple days of our offical summer break have been taken up by painting Jessica’s new third grade classroom.  Previous to our two-day painting extravaganza, it was an ugly off-white room with dried vomit tanish-brown accents.  Now, it is graced with brilliant white walls with glacial pool blue accents.  Honestly, it went [...] Read more »