Baby Pictures

My parents scanned some baby pictures of me for a game we are doing at work. I thought I'd share them with you all. Can you believe I had all that blonde hair?

Happy Birthday, Samudra!

Our little elephant is growing up. He's now 3 years old! And he's got the cutest little tusks now.

New Music

I have a new favorite group - Celtic Thunder. I love Celtic music and totally picked up one of thier CDs because of their name (which I think is really cool). I was pleasantly surprised to find they do a variety of music - Celtic, rock, folk, Broadway and more. I think they are great.

Here is a video of one of my favorite songs of theirs, called "Heartland." Don't feel bad if you can't make out all the lyrics....the chorus is in Gaelic.

Multnomah Greyhound Park Racing

One of the WWRC members posted this video of the 2003 race at the Multnomah Greyhound Park on his Facebook page the other day. I can't get it to embed here, but here is the link to see it.

So cool to see them run! Sophie was just 3 here. She was not thrilled about trying to be corralled at the end of this race.

The whippets start at about 1:50 on this video.

A Rant

You can ignore this post if you want. I'm just going to complain.

I am SO tired of how my life is inconvenienced to make things harder for criminals. I just bought a CD at Borders (40% off - score!) and it took me 5 minutes to get the stupid thing open because of the plastic wrap and protective sticky covering, etc. I'm tired of not being able to get cold medication without asking a pharmacy employee to hand me boxes from behind the counter. I don't want to get carded to buy cough medicine. I'm tired of having to have someone unlock a cabinet so I can buy spray paint. I'm REALLY tired of how difficult it is to take a plane trip anywhere. If I want to take a diet Coke on the plane that I brought from home so I didn't have to pay $5 for it, darn it, I should be able to! And I want my computer to run faster because it doesn't have to have all the stupid virus and other programs on it to keep people out.

The really annoying thing is that we've put all these processes in place and yet the criminal acts have not been reduced all that much. I have yet to hear a news report that says crack production is down because criminals can't get to the cold pills that have whatever it is they use in them. I still see a lot of graffitti around that looks like it's been done with spray paint. Yeah, maybe the terrorist attempts on airplanes have been reduced, but really, how many of those have there been in the whole scheme of things?

I don't know what the answer is except for everyone to just keep their hands off other people's stuff. History has proven that that is not going to happen any time soon, so I guess I just need to suck it up and live with it.

Land of the free, my ass.

This is How I Feel Today

Fantastic weekend. I logged 76 finds and I don't think all the boxes found are listed yet. And I haven't done the hitchhikers. Probably hiked 10 miles all together, and did a lot of uphill. I'm sore, itchy, and completely letterbox sated. Sated for the moment, anyway.

Many thanks to my great friends the Gischer's for hosting us and providing such a spectacular weekend. Thanks to Alpha Leader and Bravo Leader for carting us around. Thanks to Lemon Drop and Mariner fan for playing Slackajawea. No thanks to the stupid mosquitoes. Especially the one that bit me on the thumb.

These are the weekends I live for!