The R3dragon’s Blog

Any student would pop google eyes if they could work 40 hours a week and still go to school finishing up their degree. However, when it’s you who gets the J.O.B. and you try and tell somebody that you landed a sweet 9-5… you get nothing but grief and empty hands right back at you. [...]

As Alberto Gonzalez exits stage right from his brief public speech this morning the house of cards falls and there seems to be no more of the King’s men to put this powerful kingdom back together again… September will be one hot month.. If ever a time to turn around and retain some dignity from [...]

I start school back up again on the 4th, but yesterday I received a message setting a date for the six of us senior’s thesis meeting. We’ve been challenged to look at topics and to do some preliminary research on potential topics. This is probably the toughest task of writing a non-topic based thesis paper. [...]

Coming into this week there’s a lot of stuff that needs to get done, but once done I’ll be on cruse control. Mid-week (Wed-Fri) is Tink & Friends last camp out extravaganza till school starts then my mind will have to shift gears from working from 9-3 to (Mon)work->(Tue)school->(Wed)work. Honestly I say that my thesis [...]

We passed the final mark the Sauvie Island Rd. bridge.. The bridge towered above us and we watched cars driving by unaware of our little sailboat passing through. I could see the Willamette Rv… To my right I could see the St. John’s Bridge… the bridge I cross everyday to get home… Even though the [...]

Up and running… moving down the peaceful channel.. Life never felt better. We were entering that part of the river where people were living out their lives along little marina’s and boat house villages. We had nearly lost track of where on the channel we were. Unlike the Columbia river there is little, if any, [...]

Somehow, Someway, humans have one flaw when it you’re doing something for along time and then all of the sudden what you’re doing is boring and it’s time to do something else. It’s the change in what you’re doing.. that point at which you move from something that works to something that has a chance [...]

A fork in the river divided our path in two. To our left was the giant Columbia river that we had powered up from.. to our right was a much less known route “The Multnomah Channel”.. When I told people at work that I’d be going down the Multnomah Channel they looked at me with [...]

We cleaned up our little boat and washed out all the coffee & pots. Instead of using a camp coffee pot I insisted on the European style french press. The french press is one creation that always is a joy to watch. You fill it with any blend of ground coffee and then pour hot [...]

Twilight whittled its way into a clear moon lit night.. The stars shined like droplets of silver above our small fiberglass world. Tink reached down into the cabin and pulled out an aged bottle of wine from Spain.. My cork opener was one of those that you always see on the Godfather series.. The curley [...]