On the Border?

I see in the local classifieds that there's an On the Border restaurant coming soon to Bend. Anyone ever eat at one? How is it? There can never be too many Mexican restaurants.


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Dance Party!

Folk dance party, that is.

There's an international folk dance party on Tuesday at the Sons of Norway Hall. Food and dancing with some instruction for beginners, no partner needed. Expand your horizons! Meet new people! Indulge your happy feet!

Tuesday, May 6 at 6:00 pm.

Sons of Norway Hall
549 NW Harmon Blvd (just off Galveston)
Bend, OR [map]
For more info contact Audrey at 318-8799


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Rim Shot

My doumbek had an annoying buzz. Every time I hit the dum (the bass tone), it would buzz. I took the head off and put it back on (scary) and it became worse. So today I tried tightening the head (scarier), which has a side benefit of producing higher tek and ka sounds. That fixed it! (So much for getting to buy a fancier doumbek.)

I told Connie I'd fixed it, and my quick-witted wife replied, "That must have been a buzz-kill!"


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5 Tips for a Woman

Five tips for a woman

1. It is important that a man helps you around the house and has a job.

2. It is important that a man makes you laugh.

3. It is important to find a man you can count on! And doesn't lie to you.

4. It is important that a man loves you and spoils you.

5. It is important that these four men don't know each other.



via Gemmak


Posted by Dave    Blog Tag: Humor

How Much Rock?

Here's a critter we'd never seen until we moved to Oregon. Now we keep an eye out for them whenever we get off the parkway at Colorado, or visit the Old Mill. Today by the offramp we saw three of these guys, and four or five deer. Then we had dinner at The Summit with some other critters.


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New Avatar

Before I left Seattle to return home, I stopped by the famous Pike Place Market, a Seattle landmark. I stopped by Lark in the Morning, one of my favorite music stores. It wasn't until recently that I discovered that the music stores I enjoy most in Seattle, Ghirardelli Square and in Mendocino are all the same store. They have exotic instruments from around the world, and they encourage you to play them.

I also walked down a ramp hoping to find the same artist who did my caricature over a decade ago. That's it at the top of this post. Sure enough, there he was. Nick has been doing caricatures in that same spot for 35 years. I've used that first one as my avatar on probably a dozen online services.

Here's the one he did for me Monday:



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workFriendly

One of my feeds is a Google search that shows me when sites have a new link to my blog. Today a new one showed up. Evidently there's a web site called workFriendly that republishes web pages so they look like an MS Word document, allowing you to browse the web while looking like you're working. Here's eMusings on workFriendly. Now you can read me at work.


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