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My fave landmark is still around kind of.

 I thought it was a memory but it's still there. Some folks know I have been a massive fan of a peculiar Portland landmark. A legend in my own mind. It is the spilled Ice cream Sunday in my favorite Mexican restaurant. I first noticed it in 2017, photographed it in 2018 and 2019. Checked on it in 2020 it was there. I first saw it when it was fresh and I followed it's journey of inertia as it slowly spread and dried out. Over the years it lost it's bling but still it persisted. I checked in on it a lot The best part is that this place doesn't sell ice cream. That's why 

I love this survivor. Anyways, I checked in today to find it's lithified remains entombed under a layer of paint. Yes. This spill was so cool they painted over it. I had all 2017 to take it's picture but I had no idea it would last so long. It used to have amazing accessories. A cup, straw, spork, sprinkles and chocolate. The cherry stuck around at least 6 months. Wish i had a shot of it in it's original glory.

today

2019/20

2018

Gave my son a task.

Disassemble a laptop and pull the drive. cheap laptops fizz out a lot so i have had him do this a lot. Olive told me he had no time for my task since he had homework. 

OK so i put the laptop under the couch. We went to go do clown gigs way out in the country. 

On the way home hours later amblin on the country roads. I gots to thinking. 1. My laptop is on the table.2. our kid is better at homework than ever. 3.my laptop looks identical to the one I asked him to break down. 

Oh crap. My laptop could be over. Some stuff we give to Free Geek, other stuff we save for our mad scientist friends or whatever else. Thing is, when my boy breaks electronics down it's not in a few parts. He makes it look like a new Lego laptop set. 

Atomized. 

I was sweating the rest of the ride home. I'm VERY glad to be typing this now instead of yelling it at a pile of parts.

Every day is a job interview.

Our gig today was a birthday party for a 41 YO living in a developmentally disabled colony house. It was a joy winning them over and watching the staff crack up at the clients cracking up. "He/She never laughs like that" is something we hear a lot. I love that we somehow have keys that work on some folks mental doors. At least for a little while. Before we started the company asked us an odd question "What are you gonna do?" We didn't know what to tell them. Olive just said we will bring joy for the whole hour." They wanted very specific specifics (like a responsible business would.) Personalized song,, some clown antics, music and balloons then a game. They sent us a dossier of the birthday client so we could write a song for her. It went over great. We had them all howling, it was very rewarding. They were adorable and had us cracking up too. It was great to get out of doors and traipse around the Oregon for a bit.

Telling Olive's Cat about my day. She is so enthralled.

Battery died while paying respects to T REX

We went to pay our respects for the folks who were shot at the protest the other day. It was a solemn gathering in the park. Really cold and wet. We were very sad but happy to commiserate with a bunch of other citizens. We laid a bouquet of 4 flowers for the injured and murdered. We held hands and quickly split.

Thats when we found out our car battery died. I looked at it and the terminals looked like they were covered in oatmeal. Luckily we were around some of the most giving folks in town. First person we asked was happy to help. We made a friend who quickly fetched a car and drove it up to us! We also learned a lesson. Priuses are not very good for giving a cars a jump. None of us were car people so we couldn't find the battery...I think the Prius is a battery. So we had to find another friend with a different car. They set us up right as rain. Now we made 2 friends. This is a pretty sad night. Hope everyone is making the best of it on this chilly wet night.

 

Sweet 16. Our son's birthday today.

We woke up in the dark hours to blow up lots of balloons to wake him up with. All he wanted for his birthday was donuts and sushi (and for us to be his parents) so we did what we could.

we buried him

He has been thru a lot in the last couple of years. Olive got him Donuts and sushi, i cooked his birthday brekky and huge smiles were had by all. Custody court is in 2 weeks.

Olive's cat was super happy too but she didn't know why.

 

Teen angst

 My son and i were waiting for the bus together outside his school. Across the park a bunch of kids shouted his name greeting him. He awkwardly waved to them. Then they shouted at the kid next to him "Hi Timmy!" Timmy was a bit younger, Tim replied "Fuk Yew!" in a loud cracking voice. Then the 10 kids yelled back "No Fuk YUUU!" Suddenly all the kids around us were yelling "fuk you" across the park at each other. They were doing it in the most joyful way too. What a clever way to blow off steam after a day of public school. I looked at my boy, he was mortified, me, best thing that happened all week. I said "Sorry you have to be here with your Dad. I know you would be yelling fuk you if I wasn't standing here." His frown broke. "True." "Me too son, me too"