Flutterby™! : In Oregon

Greetings from the slopes of Mount Hood, where the sledding is good, and the beavers cavort in the ice laced streams. I'm staying with at the house of my sister and her husband (and their new son) just off of Hawthorne Ave in Portland Oregon, a funky little neighborhood with lots of vintage clothing stores, a place called "Smoking Glass" advertising "functional glassware" (and a few other head shops). Having a good visit with them, my parents, and a few hours with an 80 some-odd year old cousin some number removed who lives in a cabin up in the aforementioned foothills and who, despite knee surgery and advanced age and two canes managed to lead us down an icy snow-covered deer trail that I'd have not followed. I wanna be like her when I get old.

Oh, and here's the obligatory "blue screen" on the check-in kiosk, if you trust your IT needs to Microsoft this is the sort of image you're projecting to your customers. Can your business afford this?

Net connection courtesy of "Coffee People", on Hawthorne Ave.