one of my favourite things is seeing a white dude attempt to shake hands with a black dude…

ladies…don’t believe everything you hear or see on MTV about what men want…always remember that MTV is eveil!!!!

Went to the Murakami exhibit last Sunday…twas great. I need to take advantage of the museums available in Frankfurt. I will miss it if I end up in a small town in Italia.

went to Ikea last night and forgot to buy the one thing I really needed…bad Ikea!!! It always finds a way to suck you back in!!!

I now have two bikes out of commission. The front tire on the afforementioned (big word…what does that actually mean) fahhrad was buckled or crippled or something and is now kaput!

the cleanliness of my flat tonight is just a tad confusing…it’s like a little german garden gnome was in here tidying about!!!

So I was scolded today for my lack of entries of late…Sorry..
uhhhh…today I bought 2 picture frames and while trying to ride my bike while holding the picture frames they got caught in the spokes of my bike…2 spokes broken. 1 piece of picture frame glass broken and 1 wooden frame chipped…Good day so far!

and from the wine market…ah winter wine market. Not the same as summer, but abide…

So my apologies to everyone that I said I would drop a note to to let them know I made it home OK….
Note is here!!!!

…and for the reading pleasure…
A story about english language in english language…
http://www.slate.com/id/2200489/

and…Europe deals with immigration…
http://www.slate.com/id/2201909/entry/2201918/

BIlly Mays really makes me just want to buy stuff from him…He seems like a nice young man…

I am now checked into my flight…I guess that means I’m really coming home!!!

I was confused the other day that while reading the NYT that the word ‘schadenfreude’ just sort of showed up in the middle of an article. There was no explanation of what the word meant which must mean this is a common conversational word in america now?
In the context of the article my best guess was that it meant something along the lines of wallowing in bad news/self pity, but apparently it means to take joy in other peoples sorrows…
and now from the country that gave americans ‘kindergarten’ and ‘strudel’…it’s schadenfreude…I’ll have to add that to my dictionary…

61st anniversary of my grandparents

Had great fun in Portland, but peaked too early 😉 First time ever!!!
Visited the Rogue, Deschutes and Henry’s…(someone correct me if I’m wrong).

Today was the first frost of the year. It’s sunny though and should warm up. I love fall days like this…

tonight…dinner with the family to celebrate the grandparents 61st anniversary.

I have officially purchased too much stuff!!!!

Today going on some brewery walk in PDX with friends (and strangers). Should be good…should have some pics tomorrow…

Got to work the last two days. Was fun and nice to be in the company of some old friends.

Saw lots of family this week, and will see some more this weekend. Didn’t have time to see everyone I wanted to see and the rest of the week is basically booked up 🙁
My mom asked me if I was happy I came back…I guess I am. I’ll probably appreciate it when I’m gone or something 😉

So finally took a few pics…
I think these finally prove that Jay’s marriage is a shammmmmmm

I had forgotten the joys of a black n tan brownie from McMenamins…mmmm

On the radio some guy said ‘at the end of the day’ about 12 times in 3 minutes…I also see that depression 2,0 has also shown up on the Internet…I’m going to work really hard to come up with an original idea one of these days…