Portland Grand Floral Parade

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Lake Oswego Zupan's Market

Today i was looking for a liquor store. Since i moved here, two of them disappeared from the area. The one on Terwilliger and Taylor's Ferry moved to Macadam. The one here at Mountain Park didn't know where it was moved until today. Cause i got tired of driving at Macadam to buy brandy with dubious seals. Or meeting with guys that look like Tom Kruse in the store in down town Tualatin. So i grabbed the address or i thought i committed it to memory and i went to search for the new one on Boones Ferry. They've been working at this Zupan's Market for many months now, i got used to the idea that in that space there's a perpetual construction site. Don't know when they opened it. (Angela says 6 month ago). But they did, and apparently far in the back of the market place, at the end of a corridor, they put the liquor store. New, good looking place. Like Zupan's. No sign, no nothing. I had to ask three different people where to find it. No, four. Went in there. Although the store is big, the isles are crammed. Like most of the small stores and restaurants around here. I bumped into someone at every isle's corner. Also like if they were there waiting for me. Grabbed two bottles and one of coke and went out. I asked why they don't have a sign in the market somewhere. They told me they don't let them have one. I didn't ask who where they. But i know from experience, the people in Lake Oswego are among the most righteous people on the face of the Earth. They probably don't like their liquor stores out in the open for everybody to see them. Earlier i asked a guy sitting outside at Starbucks. First he pretended he didn't like to talk to me. Then he wanted me to hear him well. He doesn't know where the liquor store is because he doesn't drink.

Came back home and after a while i had an idea. Grabbed the camera and came back to take a picture for everybody do see or maybe not there is no sign for the liquor store. But the light was getting dimmer, that's all i could do.

Fat Lazy Bee and Crescents

I insulated the wall where the neighbor's speaker is with a blanket. Then a bee came in and stood on the floor near the wall. Then Comcast came in the parking. They always came by two or more. Then neighbor came in although the car was all day in the parking lot. But i heard a car's door and a door. Base is still on but much more muffled because of the blanket. I took a picture of the bee and left it on the balcony floor. But the bee walked back in. LOL. So i gently picked it and threw it away from the balcony and guess what! Finally flew!

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JOB LIST

Never looked so carefully at this list before. (Can't remember where i got the list from, must have been Employment Office by the time there still was one in Beaverton.) Some of the pages are printed partially and at an angle. But don't understand why the second job in 96, that where i made 674 dollars was through Olsten since i know for sure i worked at Electronic Specialty through Interim Personnel, on Chkalov drive in Vancouver, WA which later changed its name to Spherion. Corporations games, changing corporation names.

That might explain why they have been so nice to me when i worked at Infocus as an auditor, then a technician, through them again, in the fall of 96 where i quit so i can go and work at Epson for less money, but with my wife so she can work too cause she kept complaining for siting home alone for almost a year back then. In the end, the irony is now she is working and me not for so long.

LOL i remember at Blount why they made me quit. I was working on a milling machine sharpening star(triangle) shaped rotors for mowers. There was a fixture and i was just changing the part and starting the cycle. I didn't understand how many i was supposed to do, but after a few days everybody was kinda angry with me until after about a week i understood why... I was doing double the amount of the other two shifts combined LOL. Same thing happened a few years later at Laughlin through Express, until they ran out of parts and they fired me...  A Chinese woman called me a commie! Now i know it was all staged... Some of the coworkers, including my recruiter at Express were celebrities, the woman at Express (i first worked through them in early 96 at Credence) was looking a lot like Stevie Nicks...

LOL at Epson i was working on the world record line, doing frequently more than 500 printers per shift and my wife together with another Romanian, Dragoş Ţăvârlău, from Bucharest were both working on a similar line and doing less the 300..

In 98 i did not work for Softlink (although i've been told that the company was called Softlink before) but i knew the company name was Quadramed. Sir Frances Drake Blvd. In San Fancisco.

By the way, in autumn 97, after being laid off from Credence (Express) - Credence sold that part of the company, service for testers out of fabrication, to a startup in San Francisco, led by the brother of one of the Credence cofounders. I drove 700 miles in 13 hours in a car (white 89 Escort GT) that i bought from Insurance Auto Auction (during that job, summer 96) after being totaled and i fixed it myself, replacing the hood, radiator, a fender, the bumper and the mask. However, there was a problem with the body and every time i was accelerating, it was making a squeaking sound and pulling one way and when i was breaking, the other. And had a broken exhaust and made a terrible noise. My supervisor at Credence, Dino Gipaya from Hawaii was the nicest guy i met. Not like the other one i worked with at AVX. I fixed the exhaust one year after i bought it but in early 98 three months after i was laid off from Les Schwab and working at Credence we rolled over in a ditch (my wife was driving) at one mile near the Ocean and totaled it. Again. LOL.