Pros of moving to Portland: more/better house in a better neighborhood for less money. Less crime. Less traffic. An hour to the mountains instead of 3. More distinct seasons. Bicycling. Smaller city. Greenness! Powell's.

Cons of moving to Portland: no thrice-weekly runs with my sister. Handing off to my sister the full burden of dealing with our father. No living one mile from sister and one hour from youngest brother, with regular get-togethers. No weekly dinner & tv with local fans. No established local professional network. No monthly book club with people I've known for 14 years. Harder to fly to other parts of the country.

... Yeah. While I know I could build a new network in Portland, and I do have some old friends there, I suspect moving to Portland would be both selfish and a net loss in terms of sociability. My family is fully half of my social network, and not seeing them for a month or more at a time would be really hard.

I'm going to give my soon-to-be-ex-therapist a knit scarf, on the basis that since we no longer have a therapeutic relationship, it's OK to thank her for all the good she's done me.

No weekly dinner & tv with local fans.

See, you probably know a bunch of PDX fans.

I may attempt pumpkin lasagne with spinach and goat cheese tonight

Ooh, recipe?

It can't be sweater weather already! But here I am, in a sweater.

Hm. Here I am in three long sleeved shirts and a sweater. And one of the shirts has the extra long arms with a thumb hole.

b) framing services

Who do you need framed? Felony or misdemeanor?

A friend in Oak Park said it was snowing around there this morning.

Gronk. Am so tired, and I need to get moving and head out to a client event at some swank club. I had a big burger for lunch which is just dragging me down.

The water temp is still around 60, so it's keeping the lakeshore warmer than the 'burbs. But my apartment is only about 5 degrees warmer than the lake.

Ooh, recipe?

Um, I didn't work off a recipe because apparently that's how I'm rolling tonight, but this one looked good: [link]

This thing better be edible, god damn it.

Huh. The answer to, "What the heck is making that much noise?" is nine military helicopters. That's a significantly bigger number than I've seen overhead previously.

PDX has a really fabulous airport (with the only Good Dog/Bad Dog as well) but it is hard not seeing your family for a month or two and never without significant planning.

I'd love to move to Portland, but I have neither friends nor family other than my immediate here. I'm pretty fucking isolated as it is, so moving to Portland would be a net increase in weather.

I am running Collusion on Chrome to see who is tracking my data as I move about the internet. Buffistas? No one is watching (at least right now). LA Times? 40 people were watching. Collusion is fascinating.

Question: what has caused the metal hinges on my fairly-new toilet seat to turn corroded and green? I thought bleach, but none of the other fixtures are corroding. Is this fixable, or do I have to buy another new toilet seat?

And one of the shirts has the extra long arms with a thumb hole.

Oh, cool, I want one of those. Where do you get them?

Consuela, one of the reasons I'm still in Virginia is because my sister is here. Friends/family social network trumps almost everything, I think, when there's a choice.

ita, I'm glad your pain doc acknowledged there's a problem, at least.