Reading Material

Updated to fix a few typos…

What Do You Do When Your Street Is Flooded?

Well, I think this is a pretty good solution, even if it’s not entirely useful:

Anybody have hotel connections in the Salem area?

I’m heading out of town later this month for my annual coast excursion, and am looking at the possibility of going over a day early and spending the night in Salem on the way over. The thing is, I can barely afford the vacation in general, and certainly don’t think I can afford another hotel night for the whole family.

But I rarely get an extended bit of time off from work, and I want to take advantage of it.

Anybody have any connection for any hotels in the Salem area, or even in the Silverton area, that can get me a deal (as we’re looking at possibly going to the Oregon Garden)? I know all about the Oregon Garden Resort but out of my price range (unless somebody reading this site works there). Contact me privately: jake {at} utterlyboring {dot} com.

Be Safe Tonight, and Please Don’t Set Fire To My House

I won’t go into my feelings and thoughts on the holiday today, as I’m pretty sure I’ve covered that pretty well over the years.

While today’s not my watering day, I’ll be turning on my sprinklers later for a bit, as I always wake up on the 5th of July to find a bunch of bottle rockets and other flaming projectile scraps in my yard. Oh the joys of living near Pilot Butte.

Be safe, don’t do anything stupid (meaning don’t get stupidly-drunk), and please don’t set my house on fire (I’m looking at you, neighborhood morons who were blasting off the gigantic mortars until 1AM this morning). Go read an old document or something.

How the KKK Got Beat By A Single Black Guy

Johnny Lee Clary recounts a story from his KKK days. Good stuff…

My Daughter’s Famous

Thanks to all the folks who called me to say there was a nice picture of my daughter and I in the paper. We were out trying to get her to ride without training wheels, and that picture was taken right before I let go and she rode fine on her own and we celebrated. Thankfully the Bulletin photographer didn’t take a picture of her riding into the dirt, nearly hitting a concrete post (stopping is always the tricky part — we’ll work on that next time).

Anybody know anybody at the Bulletin that can get me a good digital version of that photo or one of the other photos the photog took for our scrapbook? I know I can buy reprints, but I’d rather have a digital version.

I also apologize for exposing everybody to my ghostly-white legs.

I’d Hire The Guy

I need to re-do my resume to look like this.

Need Something To Read?

Resurgence of the Animated GIF

It’s amazing in this world of highly interactive video media that the animated GIF is still so dang popular. I’ve mentioned From Me To You and If we don’t, remember me before, which is the cream of the crop. For a more bit more humor, however, Animals Being Jerks and this huge collection on reddit of classics should be bookmarked.

Time Killer For The Day

Quadran has no directions as to what to do, and is a very minimalist puzzler, but it’s addicting and fun as heck.