Been Some Time...

Well it's been some time since I last posted. I used to travel for my job 3 years ago and when I stopped I didn't update anymore. With Facebook I can now update there, but it isn't as directly personal. With so many various friends and family types on FB it isn't really the best place to write truth and semi-private thoughts (but I still do). So I've decided to try updating more here and see what happens. Maybe there's some worth to paying some attention to the Blog world for the FB reasons I've mentioned.

Erin Go Braughless Party

A good party it was. Car bombs and debauchery.

Grants Pass Oregon

A small mountain city. Everthing closes at 9:30 on a Friday night almost eerie ghost town sorta place but tonight it is art walk eve. So everywhere is packed and i was worried i wouldn't find a quality place to eat that had room for me before closing time. So i am at the Brewery and my first menu choice is 86!

Beautifully rugged mountain country. I like the surronding woods but not the surburban style city.

I drove the 199 to Crecent City California going through the red wood forest and speeding some steep curvy roads.

I will have driven on every major and many minor road in the US by the time this job is done. I might as well be a truck driver.

Job should end soon hopefully. I want to be done.

Chicago

It has been over seven years since i last visited Chicago last time with Lisa as vagabonds looking for adventure and this time on business with an expense account.

Big city. Thick and dense with a tenacious quality that New York doesn't convey. I like the feel and gothic beauty of Chicago. Too bad there is no surfing, skiing and it gets too cold.

I should try to find out if club Neo is still open. Wow, was the first Matrix really that long ago?

Lisa and i bonded deep on that x-country adventure together in the red storm, hitting camp grounds and as many goth clubs as we could find.

We bladed Chicago, the shore boardwalk, and stayed at a hostel in separate beds the first night. The second we went to club Neo and had wild sex in a coed room later that night!

Only two nights over three days, but we enjoyed. I doubt there will be any sex on this trip, but i have money now. Funny how the balance of life shifts.

Portland playground

At the Rechie playground with Lisa and Sorcha on a very warm, motorcycles out Jan. Winter day. Sorcha is making friends and running around care free. Beautiful day. I am tired from being up late at the gothic club and after hours but let the blog record show that i am happy at the moment!

Why is Classic Rock still popular?

People 40 and younger out at bars in 2006 grew up with MTV and 80s music onward. Why 60's shit and overplayed 70s crap every where you go? Won't baby boomer culture ever die?

It has actually, but its the new offends no one too much de facto elevator music. You know when you hear ir that the propriotor or manager of a business has no balls or is stuck in time with their heas deep in the sand.

Any thing played over and over again without concept and due occasion will have it's soul ripped out and be replaced in the art appreciating place in your brain by a buzzing drone of apathy.

Save classic rock! Kill It!!

Baton Rouge

I've been to much worse place. So called River City has lots of potential, but has a dull downtown and the usual main highway thru ways of multi lanes and no sidewalks. Most people are on the national chain surburban sprawl drug as is usual and character, quality and art are the exception, but with lush wild greenery, the river and some gorgeous big trees that haven't been cut down yet and a sprinkle of southern olde culture hanging on there is hope yet.

LSu is here and a major presence. You'd think there would be more of a downtown bar scene with college kids around or maybe i just haven't found it.

Vet clinic i'm working at is slimy and smelly with doctors who are disrespectful and disorganized, heaping their problems on others. Some of the staff are cool though.

I'm at PubThat doesn't serve food on 3rd street called Happy's havinfg a 2 for 1 Guiness that costs 5.50 so go figure. Guess i'll guzzle and wait around for my second before going out and searching probably invain for non national chain food.

Washington DC

Lots of great architecture. Lots of honking horn busy traffic roads, but also a good subway rail sytem, which i used to get to my job site and arounf town.

I roller skated the town today; a bit cold but exciting and unique. Went into the neighborhoods of brownstones and victorian homes first and the to Georgetown and around the Wahington monument and long mall area. Impressive place. I would live here if i had a job to take, but mostly lawyers herw i think, not programmers.

Flint Michigan Sucks

But maybe it's the weather; cold and dreary all three days i've been here.

70 speed limited fast highways which are nice. Can't say i've seen much. The cleaning compound that is use at my courtyard marriott stinks. I dont understand why the think they can charge 140 bucks to deal with it. In fact courtyards are not worth their price tag and often located in sucky suburban sprawl locations. I'll stick with my hampton inns.

Miss lisa and sorcha, but halfway through my trip now. Been depressed about the world noting how low class everyone lives where i visit. Makes me realize that i have a very different idea of what quality good living is.

Oh well. Maybe i've just seen too much at this halfway point in my life. I want more character to my society, culture and environment.