Oh-bama, you Barack'ing my world

Molly was up in Minnesota this last weekend to visit family. While she was there, Barack Obama was in town to deliver a speach before Super-Duper Fat Tuesday (at the Target Center).

These are the pictures/video from that event. Take a look a the videos... amazing how many people were there.

Enjoy!

Barack Obama

Lazy weekend

Not much going on here at the Norris household this weekend... Molly is in Minnesota, and I'm planning on doing a little bit of work this weekend... advance some projects a little bit.

Tonight Josh (Yoder) and I bottled his Belgium White (Wit) beer. Its a nice color, smells terrible, but tastes great. We didn't get the original or final gravity that we were looking for, so I think it will end up being a little stronger than a kinderbeer, but not much more. Maybe 3.75% alcohol when its all said and done. But it is very tasty... the Coriander makes it a bit on the "strong" side. But it should mellow out nicely.

For me? Not much has been going on. Still trying to get back into the swing of things after being in KC for so long. It is nice to be home. Been doing those Sunday "hikes", then dinner with Lindsey and Josh. This week Molly had a snow day, so that was kind of fun for her. We've also been trying to get our garage cleaned out enough so we can get a freezer in there so we can starg kegging. We put up some more "ceiling" shelves (we have like a 20 ft ceiling in the garage). We also moved our trash cans out to the side yard. All that is left is to clear out just a little but more of the random clutter, then well have room for both molly's car (which has remained in the driveway since we've moded here) and a freezer.

That's been pretty much it. How has everyone else been?

The Birds in January

Molly, Josh, Linze and I did a small hike on Sunday, watched the playoff games, ate at crabfest... and went to a local pond to see some birds. Enjoy!

January Birds

Making beer this weekend

Going to make Chad's radagast on Saturday and a new beer on sunday: Orange and Coriander Belgium Wit beer... Jason, look at the recipe for me and see if you have any pointers... :)

The latest about Max May

Max just started his chemotherapy today. They also have him on Oxycontin, for any pain he may have. Molly just got off the phone with him a few minutes ago, and he is in high spirits and feeling as onery as ever. I've heard that you don't start feeling really bad until 4-5 days afterward... but for now he is doing quite well.

Mutanomah Falls

Check out these great pictures/video that Molly took while hiking in the gorge this last weekend. Really beautiful!

Multnomah Falls

Back in Portland

So I'm supposed to be working today, but my Vista machine is not happy... not at all. Not really sure what is going on here, but it updated sometime when I was in KC and never really came back. I was able to work yesterday, but then it updated itself again last night, and never finished "Shutting down..." When I bounced it this morning it took about an hour to "Configuring updates..." when I finally logged in the whole machine ran like hammered shit. So I restarted, and now, once again, "Shutting down..." for like 2 hours. I keep reading that I should let it do what it needs to do, but WTF? If that little swirling circle stops moving before it restarts, I'm going to reinstall the OS and hope for the best.



Here is me anxiously waiting. Thank god I have the "flaptop".