Meetup.com lets people sign up to meet. It coordinates subject, place, time, etc. The next Portland, Oregon Weblogger meetup is scheduled for August 20th.

All of you Portland people, signup at Meetup.com , vote for the meeting place, and I'll see you on the 20th.

New pictures are up. I went to a Koi and Goldfish Show yesterday. Pretty fish. And pictures from my wife's trip to Galloway's Running Camp and her first attempt at a 50K run at 7 to 9 thousand feeti.

The book list hasn't been changing much because I haven't had time to read novels. Instead I've been reading magazines and comics. Definitely not literature, but something to fall asleep to at night.

My reading has been thining out but today famine turned into feast. In the mail the Smithonian arrived along with newsletters from The Japanese Garden and Cloud Mountain Retreat Center . I went to the comic book store and they had my Simpsons , Futurama , Oh My Goddess , Usagi Yojimbo , and Super Manga Blast . I can now fall asleep to a varied collection of light entertainment.

Today, as part of my training for the Portland Marathon , I ran 25K (15.5 miles). That's a long way. Pictures are available.

I live in an "upscale" neighborhood. That means we receive piles and piles (and pile) of catalogs in the mail.

Today we recieved our first halloween costume selection. Back to school and Fall clothes have been available for a while. Christmas is close!!