Author Archives: JASon

Politics and Sport 0

There’s been a lot in the news lately about the growing tension surrounding China, Tibet, and the upcoming Olympic Games.  I find a lot of, I dunno, personal unrest, and lack of answers for “what’s right” in this situation. First off, reference this article. [Hein] Verbruggen [the IOC coordinator for the 2008 Olympics] reiterated the IOC’s [...]

Yesterday 0

Mt. Hood Originally uploaded by jschwanz This was my view yesterday. Man it was nice.

The Tag and The Meme 1

I done got tagged to do a book meme. This is a meme that I can get on board with. The rules of the meme are: Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. No cheating! Find page 123 Find the first 5 sentences Post the next 3 sentences Tag 5 people As [...]

Lookalikes 1

Truth in Humor 0

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Coincidence? 4

Coincidence or not, you decide. September 12, 2004 – Judah born. October 27, 2004 – Red Sox beat St. Louis to win the 2004 World Series. June 11, 2007 – Abel born. October 28, 2007 – Red Sox beat Colorado to win the 2007 World Series.

It Just Doesn’t Work That Way 3

So last week Judah stuck not one, but two CDs in my computer…at the same time. I was able to get them out, but it was a bit of work to do that. Ever since then it just hasn’t work right. So, tonight I decided to try and figure it out. Since it is a [...]

Judah’s Favorite TV Shows/Personalities 0

Judah has three things related to TV that he asks for all the time. In no particular order they are: Dirty Jobs, and host Mike Rowe; this is often presented as one word, “DirtyJobsMikeRowe” Mythbusters, complete with a countdown (3..2..1..) and explosion noises Alton Brown The last one is a bit of a recent phenomenon, [...]

I Play by My Rules 1

Actually, they are Jim‘s rules: There will be no rules posted here, nor will I “tag” anyone, but here are a few random facts about me. I was tagged for a meme, and so I will post 8 random facts/stories about myself. Here goes. This is the first meme that I have ever responded to. [...]

When you see caution/police tape… 0

Walk away! On Friday my office was involved in a division picnic at Cook Park in Tigard. When they arrived they found sections of the park roped off with caution/police tape. One of the activities of the day was people could go canoeing down the Tualatin River. The picnic ended up moving to another park, [...]