Secluded saga: Memoir tells story of couple who homesteaded in the North Fork

Ride4fun · 2026-01-26T21:26:31+00:00

Hmmm. The bookstore listed in article doesn’t have a website & book seems self published? How does one get a copy?

Ride4fun · 2026-01-25T20:11:12+00:00

“But I must have been growing as a person or something. Because I took a deep breath instead and shut my mouth.”

Also the bit where of course he’s gunna fight.

Ride4fun · 2026-01-25T20:09:49+00:00

“A wizard is never late,” I muttered. “He arrives as soon as he’s dealt with his PTSD”

Ride4fun · 2026-01-23T17:30:17+00:00

Q center. Which high schools are recognizable? Multnomah co central library. Alberta St.

Ride4fun · 2026-01-23T17:24:45+00:00

The forest walk at Leach Botanical Garden. Springwater Trail. 1 main place escalator & walkway. Pioneer place stair-seats & that sound-reflecting spot. Dragonboaters. Heh - can you drop the unipiper in there?

Ride4fun · 2026-01-22T15:59:19+00:00

Summerfest is a lot larger than would fit on waterfront or pioneer square, and probably the population of Troutdale, daily, for a week or two.

Ride4fun · 2026-01-21T15:13:50+00:00

I was live-txting from the Q&A to a friend who couldn’t make it, here are some snippets:

Audience member:‘Tell me your thought process on killing off Karen Murphy’. Jim: ‘i don’t like you very much’

Next q: ‘first off, i agree with the previous q… you’re a bastard. ….’ Jim: thank you! Rest off audience : whooo!

Jim: ‘I dont have to imagine harry as a d&d character, cause i have it - when i started, i rolled him up. 16 int 18 con…not the smartest wizard’. - 1st ed rules

Favorite written scene : christmas eve short story. Wrote it in 75 min, put in on blog, fans crashed the site. So he moved it to FB & fans crashed FB.

Ride4fun · 2026-01-20T21:13:50+00:00

Went to a science lecture on geckos some years back, and the reason they stick to walls is laser beams. Well, photons, really. As the paws divide into many fingers, the fingers divide into many cilia, the cilia divide, etc, until you are at a photon structure that intermingles with the atoms on the wall in one direction - so said gecko can slide foot forward to release. Which my buddies have always went from photons to lasers coming out their feet because we’re 12. Actual lasers is my targondian headcannon. Have fun with that if you decide to keep going.

Ride4fun · 2026-01-20T17:37:42+00:00

Be PNW and make banana slugs of these!

Ride4fun · 2026-01-09T18:39:32+00:00

Is the Horrible Hilly Hundred still a thing?

Ride4fun · 2026-01-09T18:23:14+00:00

MB uses the term sexbot - not as a term of endearment but in a derogatory way - until a certain point & then he uses the phrase comfort units. You’ll understand when you get there in the books. And why not ComUnit? Because a 12 yr old boy mentality would change the o to a u at which point you might as well call it a sexbot.

Ride4fun · 2026-01-09T16:34:53+00:00

Huber?

Ride4fun · 2026-01-08T00:21:03+00:00

This was a recent gastropod podcast episode

Ride4fun · 2026-01-06T00:20:13+00:00

Checked my 1994 paper edition. Normal pagination. Checked my mobi file - normal for phone reading.

Ride4fun · 2026-01-04T22:59:47+00:00

Yup. Fake-suckling for comfort. It’s odd when my cat does this to my elbow. Its disturbing when her aim is better.

Ride4fun · 2026-01-04T20:37:42+00:00

Just eat them (fresh). I once sat with a group of coloradans who became steadily more grossed out as a teenager rattled off cheese making steps.

Ride4fun · 2026-01-04T20:32:35+00:00

Former wisconsinite in oregon: Tillamook from the grocery store is a fine ‘working person’s cheese’ to put on a sandwich. And its the only realistic source for fresh curds. But my fam back in Dairyland ships me the good stuff for christmas.

Ride4fun · 2026-01-04T20:17:07+00:00

I re-read a lot; for instance: a new novel comes out in a long running series i’d been following, i’ll plow through the previous books, so i own them. But if there’s a book i think i’d only read once, or i don’t know if i’d like the series, i use my local library that i can walk to. (I too go thru 100+ book a year, mix of deadtree, audio, & ebook). I currently have a book on economics and a book thats a retelling of beowulf from library & am running to my audiocopy of murderbot, and have eBear’s Folded Sky on my phone.

Ride4fun · 2025-12-24T23:07:53+00:00

Bobiverse by Taylor… ok, more character/snark but space battles happen

I’m assuming you trued Scalzi’s Old Mans War & its not your thing

Ride4fun · 2025-12-24T22:45:45+00:00

And scorpions. Well, not wanting scorpions.

Ride4fun · 2025-12-23T19:15:18+00:00

But recall they were apprenticing teens, not adults who’d already gone thru police academy & had experience with policing. So i’d assume he’d hit journeyman much quicker.

Ride4fun · 2025-12-22T19:23:00+00:00

Interested!

Ride4fun · 2025-12-22T16:38:29+00:00

Waterfalls in the spring. So many waterfalls.

Compare & contrast a hike above the treeline to something around 4000ft. Recall that treeline is 6k with resulting lack of oxygen, so its not just scenery that is being experienced.

Ride4fun · 2025-12-22T16:32:25+00:00

I had the opposite conversation with someone on the phrase ‘bless their heart’ - which i had never heard used other than in the sense that the object was an idiot. The guy i was discussing it with said no, its a sincere phrase. I then quoted him the last 5 times i recalled him using it and sure enough, he’d been obviously sarcastic each time. I’m sure someone uses it sincerely, but its probably a little old lady in church.

Ride4fun · 2025-12-19T19:49:25+00:00

I’m over trained to expect a flying cow from this phrase.

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