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My doozer was busy this weekend. Paul built a rolling platform for our new TV. We are turning a spare bedroom into a room to watch movies in. We spent months looking at TV’s.

I needed a break from oatmeal cookies. Plus I had 1/2 a package of cream cheese in the fridge.
INGREDIENTS:
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 small package (3 ounces) cream cheese
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
1 egg
1 teaspoon finely grated orange peel
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup sifted all-purpose flour [...]

The run today was really hard. I ran out of tunes and blood sugar. My ipod freaked out at the Hawthorne bridge on the way out. It stopped and the battery indicator was at 0%. I tried resetting it and half of my music disappeared. I tried resetting it again and the rest was wiped. [...]

Paul is doing job training tonight. He’s downtown in light armor picking up drug addicts. He is with Police Officers tonight. They find people who are visibly strung out and offer them food and cigarettes (and to not get arrested) in exchange for allowing the Drug Recognition Experts (DREs) to practice their tests. [...]

My pots are filled with flowers. The rest of the yard is still a wreck. But it looks like we are going to have great roses this year.
This weekend, we had a house guests: Jenny Warwick & Dan Peterson came up for Shambhala Guide Training.
Also, the grand opening of Bridgeport village has happened. [...]

I stumbled upon the The Yuba City Police Department Website today. I was googling images and the photos of Yuba City’s most wanted came up. The pictures are not mug shots, though they contain more misery and suffering than I can imagine.
Paul is part of the Shambhala Prision community and is bringing meditation instruction [...]

Paul’s Picture was in the weekly PortlandFit Newsletter. We are 7 weeks into training for the Portland Marathon which is apparently 143 days away. If you want to skip the bother and training you can buy the finisher’s medal for $3 at the online store. This Saturday is a short run. I’m [...]

My neighborhood has been undergoing massive changes. They have turned the quarry/dump near my house into a high end retail shopping area called Bridgeport Village. The location really seemed like a dubious choice. It was a big pit that was full of garbage. Peets opened on Monday. I am very pleased [...]

When I left the house this morning there was a state police car in my drive way. You might think this would be a cause for concern. However, this is a mint green mini-van and Paul and the other new Forensic Scientists are car pooling to Salem for training.

We are 6 weeks into marathon training. It is so different this year. Neither Paul or I ran much over the winter and I worried we lost much of our training. However, eight miles didn’t seem like that big of a deal. We didn’t need to take a nap. Instead we tackled gutting [...]