Live from Portland, OREGON

I don't know how it happened, but I'm here. Thank you Newport Beach, CA. Thank you Dave Drake. Thank you Vons for overstocking alcohol and selling your fifths for six dollars and forty-nine cents. So here I am traveling this time for business. Portland, Portland, Portland. Well, I can't lie..I do miss the sun, the beaches, and the general craziness of S. Cali. But, you can actually drive without being stuck in a traffic jam! Nice! And, there is public transportation (this city even has bikes that are free to use..just pick them up and leave them when you don't want them anymore), clean air, and and and a MYRIAD of microbrewies surrounding my hotel in downtown Portland. And, with a Gov't per diem, that spells F-U-N. I do notice a lot of what Mr. Lebowski calls "bums" in the streets, and as Kristie Ko refers to it, it's quite "crunchy" around here..meaning granola, meaning time tunnel, meaning a lot of people here haven't moved out of the 60s..hippies:) all of them!! As far as the sessions are going for work, I am yet again happy to report that I am the youngest person attending by at least a decade or two. Out of control.