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New Specs

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Earlier I posted about the trial of finding new glasses, and how I ultimately settled on a new pair of frames, rather than a vintage pair. And here they are! Yeah, I know, they aren’t much different, but I’ve never been one for too much change. I am quite a fan of their nifty little…

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Hey, Four Eyes!

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Today I took a break from the massive amounts of beading for my Dixie Cousins costume to search for some new frames.  Glasses frames that is. I was due for my eye exam, and had it last week, however didn’t find anything at my optometrist, leaving  me to hunt on my own at various optometrists…

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Farm Fun

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Over the weekend Patrick and myself and a few friends went out to The Pumpkin Patch for a day filled with getting lost in a corn maze and picking for pumpkins. According to Patrick I found this year’s pumpkin in record time.  I often find myself in the far most corner of the pumpkin patch…

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The Historics

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Each year for the past several years my dad and I have had a tradition of going to the Portland Historic Races at Portland International Raceway.  I have always enjoyed the time with my dad and getting to see such fantastic old autos race around. The teams take very much pride in their race cars…

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In Search of Vertigo

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San Francisco has certainly changed, that’s for sure.  I thought that locating many of the filming sites from Vertigo would be rather simple, heck I had a book to tell me, didn’t I? Well…think again. As I walked the streets of San Francisco on the hunt for what remained of Hitchcock’s “tortured Valentine” to the…

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