Getaway

We're going to the Oregon coast soon. It'll be a quick little getaway but I'm really looking forward to it.

The Soviet pocket calendar

Someone in my husband's family collected these little calendars once upon a time.

They've been waiting in an envelope for 2 years now- eek! But I'm finally ready to organize them: got the binder, got the plastic sleeves, got the time. Check out how many there are!!

Tiny trips

I've been looking online at big trips- Orenburg! Volgograd! Albania!- but the only kind we've taken lately have been the tiny kind.

(Admittedly, this ties in well with my newest hobby- spying on the names of people's wifi networks from the train. The winners so far: tellmywifiloveher and cacheruleseverythingaroundme.)

Here's what the last few weekends have looked like...

Snapshots

Hello March.

A Ukrainian winter

Don't you just love a proper winter day?

February's usual doubts

We've gotten in the habit of going for a long bridge walk on the weekends. I'm still a very reluctant Portlander but these walks lessen that feeling for a few hours; it's hard to look at such a stunning backdrop and not be in awe of it. Downtown, with its nine bridges, is pretty cool.

We aren't super ambitious walkers (yet!) so our trip only crosses two bridges: the traffic-heavy, shaking Hawthorne Bridge and the newest, no-cars-allowed bridge of calmness. The sun was setting yesterday just as we started crossing the Hawthorne-

Finally getting around to Celsius

One useful thing I've never quite picked up is the Celsius mindset.

For most of life it was never a problem. Fahrenheit could take me anywhere (as long as anywhere meant the U.S., Belize, Palau, the Cayman Islands, or the Bahamas). But then I moved in with a Celsius thinker. Depending on which one of us was speaking, "it's 30° today!" could mean it was either pretty cold or pretty hot.