Sometimes Burgerville is one of the better places to go for burgers in Portland. Today I proved to myself that sometimes they serve inedible pucks. I think if you’re going to pay $8 for a burger, fries, and shake, they should be a little better than what I got today. I’d suggest Skyline Burgers or Red Coach downtown if you’re looking for a good Portland hamburger and I’d steer you away from Burgerville any more. They’re just too uneven.

In any case, I should admit that I had TWO BEERS and then I DROVE TO TIGARD today. But first, I didn’t fill the cup more than a third full, and the cup was a 4-oz taster glass. I made sure the cup had the logo of a (defunct) local brewery rather than a “URINE SPECIMEN” label on the side of it.

The reason I had to drive to Tigard was because I had to make a deal with my buddy Il’s arm to get him to go to a geek picnic. Some high-class geeks, like the guy who wrote the first Wiki software (like the stuff that runs wikipedia) but that’s just because he lives in town. Il knows all the geeks but he doesn’t come outside very often except to ride his bike. My part of the deal was to help Il drag his garden shed through his backyard of thistles so it wasn’t leaning up against his house. He has painters coming to this week, I guess, and he couldn’t move the shed by himself.

The things I do to get myself out of the house.

I should have posted something last night since I did a bit more than just watch Monk and Psych. I actually backed up my MacBook Pro and made an appointment to have the weird sizzling sound looked at. I saw on some Mac news site that AppleCare now takes care of the weird sounds made by the laptops, but they were never very clear on what sounds needed to be fixed; you just had to take your laptop to the Mac Store. So I made an appointment for 7:15PM on a Friday night, waited in line until 8:10PM, and finally had the guy take my laptop for repair.

So then I had to work with my “backup” computer, a G4 400. Holy crap is it slow compared to my new computer. It wasn’t a speed demon when I bought it back in 1998 but I never thought it was this slow. Ah, well.

Today I went to my old boss’ yearly Caribbean party. I see lots of people I used to work with who I only see once a year now. He looked pretty tired and there’s no wonder. His company just announced a 14% layoff and they haven’t said who that 14% is. I got back and tried to look up in the sky for the meteor shower, but I didn’t see anything. I think I’d rather sleep than play city astronomer, anyway.