Dog Run

Last Saturday morning I met up with the Red Lizard Running Club for what I thought would be a normal road run. What I didn't know is that every second Saturday dogs are brought out from the Multnomah County Animal Shelter for runners to take on the run. I was like, hey, I'll do this and I was given the most rambunctious Labrador puppy, Kimbo. Kimbo, in Cambodian, means dog who will do everything he can to pull your arm from your socket and trip you.

Actually, it wasn't that bad, Kimbo was super jazzed to be outside and around other dogs so he was constantly pulling to get up to other dogs in the lead. If I ever passed up other people and was out in the front, Kimbo settled down and healed much better.

A weimaraner from a weimaraner rescue program was also brought out for the run. They seem like really cool dogs, I like the grey coloring.

Top Projects 2008

Apparently every year the Vancouver Business Journal (VBJ) has a special supplement showing the top construction or development projects in the city of Vancouver. Vancouver is a city across the Columbia River from Portland and is known of more of bedroom community for Portland workers who don't have to pay property tax in the State of Washington.

Two of the projects struck me as being inordinately lame:

#44 Sonic Drive-In on 850 NE 192nd Ave




Another project of dubious merit but not officially listed because information was not available:

Dutch Bros. Coffee - a franchise based drive-thru coffee chain in the Northwest. Its a drive-thru coffee place, how is it a top project?






I have no idea how a burger or coffee chain's construction of another franchise location is representative of a city's top project.