For the last few days my computer has been in the shop to fix a persistent freezing problem it's been having for the past year. Thankfully it seems like it's cleared up now, though the ordeal has made the Portland Apple Store my most-oft-visited place in Portland. I feel like I'm one of them. I know the geniuses at the table and I know a little bit more about their schedules, how they rotate between checking people in and helping people and learning about the ever-updating techniques for helping customers. I've seen the little tutorial video they show as you wait for your appointment hundreds of times, though my heart still soars every time I see the grammar mistake along the lines of: "If you have an appointment, let us know you're here. If you don't, we'll try and set one up for you."
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| View on the flight from Oakland to San Francisco |
Portland itself is very pretty right now. Apparently the rainy days stopped just before I got here, so allergies have been a major problem for the locals (not for me, though, because I'm that cool). Yesterday during an all-day, all-ages electronic music party in Cathedral Park white pollen blew through the air like a snow storm. But the sun's out, in general, and at the right points in the city you can see the snow-capped Mount Hood (in the photograph above, 11,240 feet tall).
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| Kalmia, the 5-year-old who lives in the house where I'm staying |
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| Kalmia biking down her neighborhood street after running into friends |
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| Cathedral Bridge and the DJ all-day all-ages concert that took place there on Sunday |
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| Cathedral Park |
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| Cathedral Park |
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