Until I cancelled my account on World of Warcraft, I hadn’t realized how painfully early it was getting dark in the evening. Coupled with the end of daylight saving time (a change that happened as I was freezing on a ridge in the Cascades, and one to which I was completely oblivious until Kate mentioned […]
Author Archives: Dane
Leaves
November 3, 2006 – 2:08 am
It’s 35 degrees and raining, and that’s down here in town. Today it rained non-stop, all day. You’d think I lived in Oregon or something, what with this rain and all. Something struck me as strange the first time I came to this state. I kicked up a random conversation with an old lady in […]
Wahtum
October 30, 2006 – 9:54 am
On Saturday night our endless summer came to a screeching halt, and I happened to be outside to witness the transformation. I’ve been feeling slow and lethargic lately, and needed some change in routine to shake out of my rut, so I decided I’d load up the trusty ol’ backpack and hit the trail for […]
Plates
October 24, 2006 – 1:59 am
I work from home. Sometimes in the middle of the day people swing by to hand me pamphlets decrying false religion and immoral sex and just about everything else in the world that could be considered fun. These pamphlets also predict the end of the world, in some vaguely backwards attempt to motivate me not […]
Booty
October 22, 2006 – 10:20 pm
Scotch on the rocks. We’ll see how long I can remain coherent. A couple nights ago some friends and I dressed up as pirates and ran around downtown Hood River for the entire evening. Rather than simply doing this at random (which would be kind of fun, come to think of it) we were participants […]
Ullr
October 15, 2006 – 11:43 pm
Last night we ran up into the foothills of Mount Hood and, in an effort to appease the winter gods, burned piles of skis at our Pray for Snow party. It’s amazing how much of the stuff that goes into making a ski, how much of that toxic garbage just burns like hell when you […]
Cryptozoology
October 13, 2006 – 11:29 pm
So. I had a post here, but as the martini was taking hold I inadvertently closed my browser window. This should be a lesson that the web is not a proper development environment for the discipline of writing, and instead we should write our drafts on something less ephermeral, like composition books or soft clay […]
Delivered
October 8, 2006 – 10:37 pm
Ahoy. I have safely arrived in Oregon, the state whose motto is Alis volat propriis, which means “She flies with her own wings, but only only after she has compiled a report regarding the environmental and economic impact of her flight, and only while using wings deemed safe by the state regulatory process.” Yup, I’m […]
Medium
September 27, 2006 – 9:06 pm
A few days ago it hit me for the first time that not only am I moving to Hood River, I am leaving Minneapolis. This makes me sad, as there are people and non-people here that I am really going to miss. Most of all, I’m going to miss Gus. He is my world (aside […]
Atlas Slouches
September 26, 2006 – 10:05 pm
Today I went to IKEA and walked out with a couple tons of furniture, and I’m still recovering from the trauma of this occasion. Now, I love the concept of furniture. I think it’s great how in modern civilization we live in these rooms filled with all our stuff, and we have all this extra […]
