Golden Retriever: The sun is shining, the day is young, we've got our whole lives ahead of us, and you're inside worrying about a stupid burned out bulb? Border Collie: Just one. And then I'll replace any wiring that's not up to code.   Dachshund: You know I can't reach that stupid lamp! Rottweiler: Make me.

Dear Cats and Dog, The dishes with the paw print are yours and contain your food. The other dishes are mine and contain my food. Please note, placing a paw print in the middle of my plate of food does not stake a claim for it becoming your food and dish, nor do I find that aesthetically pleasing in the slightest. The stairway was not designed by NASCAR and is not a racetrack.

I attended a planning meeting yesterday at the Hillsboro city offices to discuss a plan to convert a 41 acre site at 53rd & Baseline into a community park. Ideas include a community lawn area, sports fields, demonstration gardens and a community center with basketball and tennis courts, jogging track etc. After feedback from an initial consultation phase, a number of other features are being considered including a doggy off leash area which [Becky](/pets/becky) would love.

PCC Panthers played the CCC Cougars on February 15th in two intense battles that saw the men’s Cougars beat PCC 69-66 and the ladies beat PCC 66-61. I shot the game, played in the new Killingsworth Road gym, as part of a PCC News Photography course. The lightning speed of the game and lighting conditions made for possibly the most challenging conditions I have ever attempted. Both teams played superbly - well worth an evening out!

A few winters back when I was working as a support engineer, I was called to a job at an unusual religious sect’s mountain retreat. It was a complicated job and took me well into the evening. By then the snow had fallen and getting home would be difficult so they offered me dinner and room for a night which I happily accepted. However dinner was a slightly odd affair with very little conversation and what there was muted.

Digging through some very old papers, I found a really old glossary of computer terms from the days of mainframe computing (the copy is have is data February 1977). Punched cards might be a thing of the past, but the spirit of those old programmers still lives on. **Computer** Device for transforming boring clerical operations into boring manual operations. **Program** A sequence of instructions telling a computer how to loop and halt unexpectedly.

Do you believe in miracles? It's almost unthinkable, but the forecast on [weather.com](http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/97124) for Hillsboro shows that tomorrow's rain will be the last for 10 whole days - yippee! So far this year, the only outdoor photographs I've caught here have been of the [ducks](/photography/wildlife/wet_feet.html), I guess Puddletown is really living up to it's name this year :-) [ ](/u/2007/03/11/wet_feet.jpg)

[ ](http://www.pgr360.com/) For all those fans of Project Gotham Racing 3 on the XBox 360, there is a [new fan site](http://www.pgr360.com/) based here in Oregon. The site looks great and has launched with a hack to let you roam freely on any map - way cool :-)

This really was the WORST kind of comedy, firstly because it really wasn’t funny but even worse because it is so hurtful and ill-informed. Suzanne Crumb comes home from a psychiatric hospital, following a “nervous breakdown” in which she tried to run her husband down with her car and attempted suicide, after a divorce and the death of one of their three sons. The show is full of stereotypes, offensive language, and trivialization of serious issues.

The [rain](http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_010606_news_flooding_weather.4f71ce89.html) keeps coming with almost an inch more today in Hillsboro, but in the breaks we did at least get some sunshine. Donna and I took the opportunity to get out to [Cannon Beach](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=cannon+beach+oregon&btnG=Search&ll=45.881944,-123.963056&spn=0.083052,0.20874) to walk Becky and snap some great [photographs](/photography/cannon_beach/). The sandy beach is dominated by Haystack Rock, probably one of the most photographed natural sites in Oregon - so who am I to break with tradition :-) [!