Reservoir (bath tub) Dogs

July 24, 2009

This heat wave is ridiculous. It is so hot in the apartment that Oscar and Felix are constantly panting and can’t stay cool. We can’t leave them in the apartment by themselves, in case they develop heat stroke. There are no air conditioners available at Home Depot, Sears, or anywhere else in the Metro-Portland area. [...]

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Discovering Rocking Frog

July 23, 2009

Much of the “work” that I do revolves around my blogs. I use quotes around “work” because it really doesn’t occur to me like working. I use a Macintosh laptop to write about things that I enjoy. I am either at home, after waking when I feel like waking, or in a cafe somewhere, enjoying [...]

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Moving Day

July 22, 2009

Today was moving day, and we did indeed get the apartment filled with everything but the TV and the sofa. We left those, and the washer & dryer in the storage unit to be sold on Craigslist. The heat relented today, which was a blessing. With each subsequent move, we have less and less stuff. [...]

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Back at Motel-6

July 20, 2009

We’ve decided to go back to the Motel-6 until moving day, which is Tuesday.  Even it it’s just a few nights of air conditioning, it will be worth it. We’ll be renting a U-Haul truck for the move, and expect it to be completed in two trips. After all of the giving away of furniture [...]

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Staying With Friends

July 19, 2009

We have been staying with our new friends for a couple of days. The apartment is upstairs and has no cover from trees most of the day.  It gets SO hot in there during the day that we’re concerned for Oscar and Felix’s well-being. The heat is so bad that we can’t really stay there [...]

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And the Gates of Hell Open

July 17, 2009

No one expected the heat that came today. Portland isn’t designed for extreme heat, as it struggles with any snow at all. Last winter Portland had an enormous storm and record snowfall. Observing the storm from Denver, it seemed like an average storm that anyone should be able to handle, but the city seized and [...]

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Selling the Library

July 16, 2009

The day finally came to let go of the library, today. To pay for the motel room and to have money left over to move in with, letting go of the library became essential. It was something I had anticipated, but was not really prepared for. I had collected these books over the previous twenty-five [...]

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Friends to the Rescue

July 15, 2009

We got approved for the apartment, but cannot move in for a week, so I put out a call for assistance, trusting that we’d be all right.  The assistance came in the form of a local angel, Ulric, offering a bedroom in his two bedroom apartment.  We still have the truck, so we’ll be able [...]

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The Disgorging of the Big Yellow Truck

July 15, 2009

This morning we emptied the truck into the storage unit. I had done a search for storage facilities that weren’t TOO far from the motel, and weren’t too far from where we wanted to live. We chose the Public Storage on Division at SE 91st Avenue.  The manager there, Monty, was friendly and easy to [...]

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Craigslist and Apartment Hunting in Portland

July 14, 2009

Before we left Denver I did some checking on Craigslist for apartments and houses in and around Portland. There were lots of listings, but most of the ads that I replied to turned out to be identity theft scams. I became a bit gun shy and decided to wait until we got here to find [...]

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