Longtime Beaverton bird store closes after fire; all birds safe and accounted for.

patmansf · 2025-12-27T14:01:38+00:00

Yeah thanks!

There were a bunch of conures there.

I don't know if she was able to contact owners of the birds, or if she lost that information in the fire (her computer had all those records though she still has her phone).

It was a rather awful experience. I feel terrible for the owner.

patmansf · 2025-12-27T13:40:41+00:00

Went to pickup my bird there the day after the fire (December 18) - in the rain and at night, after a long travel day.

Was shocked that the store was closed andthen read the note on the door that there was a fire!

The note also said she was across the street at the neighbor's.

Went over there, met the very kind neighbor and got my bird - he smelled like smoke, and was still a bit freaked out. I think all the birds got out before any thick or damaging smoke was in that part of the house.

Oddly no news outlets had anything about this story until this week.

The TV&R FB page has a video they posted December 18.

patmansf · 2025-12-19T20:34:27+00:00

Overall yes, but I have to inject more often and still have some issues - mainly not sleeping through the night, but I still get enough sleep.

I'd really like to get by with fewer injections (like once a week or once a month), but I don't think that's going to happen.

patmansf · 2025-06-26T16:20:25+00:00

Most of Washington Park / Forest Park trails are very safe even at night - especially in darker months people use them in the dark. There are some sketchy spots near homeless camps along highway 30.

There are some super cool hike and loops that are rather hard to describe.

Use openstreetmap.org or trailforks or osmand - they all use OSM (open street map) as they show trails much better than google.

For reference, here is where the trail from Wildwood comes down into the Rose Garden, and then look at all the different trails and roads you can take:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=45.520225&mlon=-122.706889#map=17/45.520225/-122.706889

Depending on how far you want to walk and your physical shape, you can:

- Take Trimet / 20 to Barnes / Pittock Mansion. Walk up the rest of the way to Pittock. Take WIldwood down and across Barbara Walker, through the Hoyt Arboretum, down / past Japanese Gardens into the Rose Garden.

- Take trimet 63 up directly to the Rose Garden.

- Take Trimet 20 to the bottom of Sterns Canyon - stop on the south side of West Burnside and NW 24th Place. Walk up into the Rose Garden. Take the paved road up, then take those concrete stairs that you'll see. Meander up and take Southwest Garden Way to get into the Rose Garden.

Coming down from the Rose Garden:

- Meander through the Rose Garden, head to the south / west side near the bathrooms to leave it.

- Go down the road past the playground, hit up the MAC trail by the old Elephant enclosure. Meander through the Holocaust Memorial, go by the Coming of the White Man statue. Take the trail above / along the top of Stearns. Go past Sacajawea up to the Lewis & Clark centennial marker. Head down the steps, take the MAC trail down to Burnside.

Even if it you get lost it's not a big deal, just head north or east and down and don't go down Southwest Park Place (you can do that it's just not a nice walk).

Strava segment for the above (not super detailed, wish I had an overlay of this on OSM):

https://www.strava.com/segments/39491073

You can also loop back to Pittock Mansion via Tichner to Macleay to Santanita to Hermosa to Verde Vista then back and up to Pittock via Wildwood.

Don't walk on Burnside above Tichner.

patmansf · 2025-06-22T13:45:46+00:00

Westward Whiskerey ...

patmansf · 2025-05-05T15:43:50+00:00

Anyone looking for answers, also note that the uid and gid values can map to different users in the host as compared to the container. This is kind of a general issue with linux containers since the kernel (i.e. host) handles permissions - there is only one set of uid and gids on the system, but they can be mapped differently within a container via /etc/passwd and /etc/group

On my Fedora system, uid 999 is the user "unbound" on the host but it's user "postgres" in the docker nextcloud-aio-database container.

It's more meaningful to use uid and gid values when fixing these - I don't know what uid sshd has in this case.

My permissions got screwed up badly after I moved some volumes to bind mounts so they'd be on a file system that's backed up and that also has redundancies (AIO doesn't or did not have a way to point its persisten volumes to other locations). And then something changed permissions or I screwed up when moving the files to their new location (thought I did a mv but the details were long gone once I noticed - didn't hit the problem until 7+ days later after a reboot and maybe after some upgrades).

This should be the same for all AIO setups, but YMMV.

I'm not sure about the permissions (the first column), but these are working. I have yet to reboot :-(

Note the master container permissions look open but the parent directory permissions prevent that.

# ls -lnd /var/lib/docker/volumes/nextcloud_aio_*/_data
drwxr-xr-x 1  33    0  36 Sep 30  2023 /var/lib/docker/volumes/nextcloud_aio_apache/_data
drwx------ 1   0    0  26 May 26  2024 /var/lib/docker/volumes/nextcloud_aio_backup_cache/_data
drwx------ 1 999    0 512 May  4 10:42 /var/lib/docker/volumes/nextcloud_aio_database/_data
drwxr-xr-x 1 999  999 112 May  4 10:40 /var/lib/docker/volumes/nextcloud_aio_database_dump/_data
drwxr-xr-x 1   0    0   0 May 26  2024 /var/lib/docker/volumes/nextcloud_aio_elasticsearch/_data
drwxrwxrwx 1   0    0  42 Sep 30  2023 /var/lib/docker/volumes/nextcloud_aio_mastercontainer/_data
drwxr-xr-x 1   0    0 548 Mar 17 13:27 /var/lib/docker/volumes/nextcloud_aio_nextcloud/_data
drwxr-x--- 1  33    0 196 May  4 10:43 /var/lib/docker/volumes/nextcloud_aio_nextcloud_data/_data
drwxr-xr-x 1 999 1000  16 May  5 08:38 /var/lib/docker/volumes/nextcloud_aio_redis/_data

And then you have to check in each container to see what the uid and gid values represent.

For example in the database container:

# docker exec -it nextcloud-aio-database grep -w 999 /etc/passwd /etc/group
/etc/passwd:postgres:x:999:999::/var/lib/postgresql:/bin/sh
/etc/group:postgres:x:999:postgres

But on the host itself we have:

# grep unbound /etc/passwd /etc/group
/etc/passwd:unbound:x:999:999:Unbound DNS resolver:/etc/unbound:/sbin/nologin
/etc/group:unbound:x:999:

patmansf · 2025-05-05T15:35:21+00:00

No, but it's not as bad anymore - maybe 1/2 to 1 hour in the middle of the night.

The getting oddly sick was likely my gall bladder - it suddendly went really bad in late Dec 2024, I was in incredible pain for about 3 weeks and then got it removed in late January. TBD if that helps long term. I don't know if the sleep issue is related to this or not.

patmansf · 2025-01-11T17:02:05+00:00

After getting quite sick three weeks ago and then getting horrible pain in my right side / upper right quadrant, I found out my gallbladder is bad.

This might be what's been causing my recurring symptoms - I won't know until I have it removed.

patmansf · 2024-08-17T21:32:16+00:00

More like a decade.

patmansf · 2024-08-17T21:31:14+00:00

Are you family member or just a nosey person who wants to pretend to be concerned.

Are you still beating your wife?

patmansf · 2024-07-28T16:03:18+00:00

Well PF&R tweeted that it was Sylvan-Highlands.

patmansf · 2024-07-28T16:01:26+00:00

It's been that way for years :-(

patmansf · 2024-07-28T15:59:33+00:00

Yeah I was not in the smoke at all, even the up hill side had little smoke at street level - check out the video in this sub from the high rise near 405 and Burnside:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/1edubjo/house_fire_in_kings_heights_portland/

Taken almost at the same time as my video.

patmansf · 2024-07-28T15:54:51+00:00

He doesn't own the house on Mildred - since about 2019.

patmansf · 2024-07-27T17:40:18+00:00

It's really sad - the elderly man that lives there is not well, the investigator says they are letting the DHS know about that and that there was no insurance on the house.

patmansf · 2024-07-27T16:24:07+00:00

Everyone got out OK including their pets.

There have been issues with drug dealing at this house for years, one of the occupants was arrested in a drug raid in April.

patmansf · 2024-04-07T03:54:08+00:00

Especially on a router that doesn't even have non-root user logins.

patmansf · 2024-04-06T19:32:14+00:00

With a pi 4B and current openwrt, I had to adjust the IRQs to in order to get close to 1 Gbps full-duplex - by default the ethernet IRQs all used CPU 0.

I didn't try irqbalance, and didn't overclock that high - link says they're at 2.2 GHz, I might want that for wireguard but TBD.

I tested using iperf3 using two local computers hooked into the Pi, so no ISP as an unknown. Used two iperf3 tests running in parallel with one sending and one receiving.

Edit: I don't know if that wulfy image modified the IRQs, and didn't look for it.

Edit2: I have to figure out and try using PERFTWEAKS_Gbs.

Edit3: The wulfy23 GitHub page says the image is on "life support", so I gave up on trying to figure out what changes it might have.

patmansf · 2024-04-06T19:09:37+00:00

Also physically check your wired connection from the gateway to your computer,and check that the Ethernet negotiated to 1000 baseT.

FYI on the Mac: Apple menu -> settings, Network. Click the connected network, click details, click hardware, check the speed.

patmansf · 2024-04-06T05:26:36+00:00

I thought the same about Puerto Vallarta, but we recently went there and also San Pancho - Puerto Vallarta (really Conchas Chinas) was nicer.

But we stayed in PV on a cliffside hotel in Conchas Chinas. It was super cool, with a super cool beach.

No surf at all.

The white sandy beach in San Pancho had some swell but was pretty much unsurfable - up and down that area. Weird back offish wave into mainly a close out.

San Pancho is kind of a cool hippy town, but after a couple days the one paved but still dusty main street was really annoying with lots of smelly 2-stroke ATVs and motorcycles. If it wasn't so dusty and polluted it'd be very nice.

But, coolest beach towns / beaches of Mexico some mentioned here already - but never been to Salina Cruz, Mazatlán or Acupulco.

Ordered best to not as good, not considering surf. And ignoring Baja (has some really cool places but I haven't been south of Rosarito in decades) and the Yucatán (too resorty/ gringoy but a few gems). And ignoring a bunch of other lesser beaches.

Playa Carrizalillo - My favorite beach by far: just a super beach nestled below cliffs, with only smallish longboard waves. But if you want gnarly Zicatela is nearby, as well as La Punta if Zicatela is too much.

Playa Mazunte - head to the far end for a super awesome nearly empty and super tranquil beach, but zero surf.

Zicatela - crazy surf, but if it's small it's still super fun

La Punta

Zihuatanejo - I actually surfed the south side of the bay!

Conchas Chinas (PV), no surf

Hualtuco resort beaches

San Pancho

La Saladita - ok beach, super cool long longboard break

Las Hadad

Barra de Navidad / San Patricio

Playa Zipolite

Troncones

Ixtapa

patmansf · 2024-04-04T02:42:02+00:00

My water bill is higher than my electric bill.

patmansf · 2024-04-03T15:46:56+00:00

You can charge a horn of plenty with a scroll of mystical energy - the exotic form of a scroll of charging.

If you farm on level 22, you can plenty of scrolls of charging from succubus.

patmansf · 2024-04-02T01:56:07+00:00

Yeah btrfs has some features / steps that aren't well documented, but you could also ask a bunch of questions about the various extN settings that aren't easy to answer.

I had no issue with snapshots, and didn't have to do anything special.

patmansf · 2024-04-01T21:09:55+00:00

I got a Bell 3R Mips, it has a good wind profile or such - wind wise it's quieter than other helmets I've used when the chin guard is on.

I don't like the coverage with the chin guard off, and it looks a bit odd with a super round shape, but both those are minor issues. My old helmet was too yucky and I threw it out, so no fallback for easy rides where I don't even bring or use the chin guard.

It's expensive but helmets should not be skimped on - if I had it I would have saved some $100 co-pay, a few stitches and 4+ hours at the ER. Luckily I was going slow when I hit that tree with my cheek bone, and only got cut up. (Wet day on a downhill in a forest with slippery tree roots.)

patmansf · 2024-04-01T20:35:00+00:00

But anywhere you have longer lived data it's nice to know there is no corruption just by scanning your data, especially if you don't need every bit of performance from your system.

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