Upcoming Incoming Music

Around 300G! Whee! Gonna pick it up when I have lunch w/my ex-hubby and his wife in a couple of weeks down in SoCal. Ah, the mix-tapes aka compilation CDs I can then make...

Amazing that you can get a TerraGig external hard-drive for under $154 (still under $180 w/taxes & S/H)! Yay, MacMall.

Don't Forget

Tonight: Go Out, Look UP!

ZoomBa

So, the initial plan'd been for me & lightfoote to go backpacking this Thursday to see the tail end of the Perseids. Now though it looks like rain up on Mt Baker, where we'd hope to go. Other alternatives include car-camping and possibly even boat-camping in Eastern WA. Perhaps we'll finally make it out to SteamBoat Rock (now affectionately known as SteamPunk Rock after a sleep-dep/massively-addled statement way back when ;-) The upshot of all this is that I'm packing for several different possible adventures. Leaving o'morrow morning, returning sometime on Sat, b'c I wanna be in town for the Hawthorne Street Fair. ZOOM!

Drums!

I like listening to - and feeling - drumming. This evening I got to sit outside in the amphitheater by the oh-so-lovely Portland Rose Gardens for great free performances by Portland Taiko and Mizu Desierto Butoh Theatre. Nine (9) of us who met for potluck picnic dinner - along w/the other hundreds of people of all ages who showed up - thx again, dwights for organizing this part of the experience - had a delightful time. I recognized most of the folks in our group from dwights and spouse's potlucks and/or from ecstatic dance.

It began sprinkling then eventually pouring down rain, but we (dwights & I) were prepared w/umbrellas. Luckily for us all, one of the food vendors happened to have a half-dozen extra pavilions in his truck which he lent to Portland Taiko so they could perform 'n' play underneath 'em on the stage. Drums do NOT like rain, ya' know. If'n I weren't leaving in the morning and didn't have a bit more to pull together this evening, I'd've joined the gang afterwords for soaking the hot tub and enjoying port and chocolate. Another time I shall not decline the offer.

I'm hoping to be gone and off-line Th afternoon 'til sometime on Friday or possibly Saturday (when I return to the Hive), but this ultimately depends on whether the weather cooperates. It's raining pretty solidly now. I'm not sure which way this system's heading. If North (like me), then I might not be gone (off-line) so much at all after all.