I’m an early adopter, I pay more for items because I gotta have them before anyone and before the price drops from demand. I’m ok with this. The toys I acquire, I take pride in the fact that they are the first to come off the assembly line. Bugs and QC issues be damed!
My iPad came to me on launch day, it’s proven to be the best thing since sliced bread.
The apps I can’t live without (today):
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Someone please pound it into my head to not wear a red polo shirt to a Target store.
Attending my first writers conference in Portland today, very excited!! More as it unfolds interesting.
Some great book picks that caught my attention, gotta love NPR.
Librarian Nancy Pearl Picks ‘Under The Radar’ Reads : NPR.
Writer Anne Rice: Today I Quit Being A Christian : NPR.
Fascinating article, love or hate her books, this is a woman who has gone through transformations and her writing shows it. Her transformation from Catholic to Atheist, back to Catholic and now agnostic, it’s simply fascinating.
Not sure why I hadn’t posted this back in January but a friend recently friended the Earl Blumenaur page on Facebook and it reminded me. I live in Washington and Blummy represents in Oregon, he wouldn’t even chat with me over email on this. His stock (staff’s) response was that I wasn’t in his constituency so he wanted me to talk to my representatives. I call this BS, a lobbiest from where ever can represent a topic from his area and talk to him but living near isn’t good enough. Anyway, this public official used our money to enjoy himself in Copenhagen and it irritates me. Here’s the letter to Obama but the same was sent to Earl and all the other elected officials who abused our public funds:
FROM THE DESK OF
KRISTIAN L VOCKLER
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It was a full weekend of sports and fun and it’s all to expose the little guy to how active his life is and will be. Gotta start em early.
First off, congrats to Espana and my friends across Spain. I’ve been a big fan of Spain for years and it’s sweet to see them finally make a win in the WC. Well done guys!! The video that follows is pretty cool to watch, the emotion those players must feel has to be huge. In this video, the woman is his girlfriend, who also happens to be interviewing him after the game for a Spanish entertainment channel, so don’t be alarmed at this sweet display of affection:
The video was found on Dooce’s blog: [www.dooce.com | i personally would have fainted]
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This year I bought season tickets to the Portland Timbers so I could get high on the list to pick season tickets for next years MLS move. I seriously love going to the Timbers, soccer in general is so full of action and the Timbers really bring more. It’s going to be fun to see how they do as a pro team next year. Anyway, we were at the match on Friday when Timbers beat Miami FC, see the highlights (http://www.portlandtimbers.com/):
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And finally, my friend Scott and drove to Seattle to see the Mariner’s lose against the Yankee’s yesterday. It was a beautifully sunny day in Seattle, very warm with a great breeze. Couple that with $8 beers and it was a perfect sunday. Alex was going to come with but my cousins and their kids live in Seattle so he had more fun eating sand and jelly sandwiches. I could tell he had a bast, he was tired and crabby by the time we got home. I’d say a success all around! Please excuse Scott in this horrible shirt he’s wearing but do enjoy a few photos from the day:
And that’s all there is to report, a full weekend of great weather and hanging out with my favorite little guy Alexander. And Scott, can’t forget Scott.
First off, I gotta say a big “Yaaaahooooo” to Espana for making it to the World Cup Final. I have many friends and work colleagues in Spain, as a result, Spain has been a favorite team for the last ten years or so. So happy to see my Espana get to this point, they deserve it and they deserve to take the whole thing!!
Vive Espana!!_
New music you say? Yes! Anyone who knows me realizes I have a very eclectic taste in music, one moment you could be listening to a opera aria and the next Lady Ga-Ga. What I don’t remember about this, new to me artist, is where I saw him first but I know I saw the CD at Starbuck’s and I know I listened to Terry Gross interview him.
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