UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 30-year-old dad, percussionist, freelance Web designer, consultant and jack-of-all-trades computer geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the IT Director and Ad Designer at both Sunray and Discover Sunriver. He has LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him.
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If you're reading this, you have too much time on your hands.
I was just reading a story over at Bend.com about the driving conditions, plowing, etc... in Bend after our snow dump. My street hadn't been plowed when I was reading the story (though most of Bend had), so I posted this comment to the story:
It's nice that they're getting most of town (read: The newer/more-expensive neighborhoods) but is there anybody who, like me, is on the older Northeast area of town who is still waiting for their road to be plowed? I'm calling a taxi to get to my doctor's appointment today because my wife can't drive me because she can't get out of our neighborhood (and I can't drive because of my back/leg that I'm having checked out today).
EVERYBODY I've talked to, all over town, has been plowed, but it's 9:00 am, on the 3rd day of this mess, and I'm still snowed in.
OK, done ranting :-)
Not even two minutes after I posted that comment, I heard a truck on the street. Assumed it was the garbage man, but it was a snowplow. Granted, my road's still in really bad shape, and my wife still wouldn't drive in this mess. So the cab is still scheduled to be here at 10:00.
I have to admit though, this is the first time in a long time that I've been able to see the top of the mountain on Mt. Bachelor's Web Cam.
tasberry said on 12/30/03 @ 09:29 AM: Saw you on movable type's recently published so I stopped in. Nice blog you have here. Feel free to stop by mine.
Jake Ortman said on 12/30/03 @ 09:31 AM: Thanks for stopping by!