Z to A games: Sentinels of the Multiverse.

In Sentinels of the Multiverse, your team of heroes fights against the villain.  We lost.

5k series race #1. Hagg Lake.

I'm doing a series of 5k runs this year sponsored by ORRC. Over the winter I had some foot troubles and so laid off the running for a few months.  So I wasn't sure if I was going to be a runner or a walker by the time the first race rolled around.  It turns out I mostly ran, walked a little.

Matt helped transport the food, so got a fresh cinnamon roll in exchange.

Here you can see them icing the rolls.

We took a pre-race walk and snapped a few pictures of Hagg Lake.

I'm waiting for the race to begin.

It was a small race, which I liked a lot.  They didn't even have music playing at the beginning.

And I'm off!

The technology that brings us our time.

And I'm back! (It was an out-and-back course)

Finishing under 40 minutes!

They gave us socks, which I thought was awesome.

I was overly enamored with this very wide walking strip in the middle of the parking lot.

Officially I finished in 38:45 with an average pace of 12:30 (which I'm thrilled about.) I finished 34 overall, and fourth in my age bracket.  The next race is on June 21.

Twelve years.

Who would'a thunk?

What says true love more than matching VM books?

Pretty much nothing.

Cleaning creations.

Lured by the promise of clean floors and steam, I purchased a swiffer/steamer. However, I hate the smell of the swiffer pads that are supposed to be used with the steamer, so I made my own.  The white one was the prototype, made from one of Matt's old towels.  That turned out to be too thick, so I fashioned two more out of an old shirt.

The towel became dust clothes.  In the middle, bottom row, you can see how I've dusted with one.

My materials:

This project was also a good way to use up all the "bits" of spools of thread and bobbins.

A date night! ART! The Quality of Life

Are we going to Providence Park and the Opening Night of the Portland Thorns?  

No, we are headed toward the theater!  And, apparently, therapy llamas.  (Which I have dark feelings towards, but which everyone else seems to deeply love).  Here's Matt with the llamas.

We are at Artists Repertory Theater to see this play, which we are seeing for free.  This is the second week in a row we've been privy to free theater!  Hooray!

Bad self-portrait before the show.

I'm not the biggest fan of ART's stage because there are good seats that face the stage straight on, and then there are the rest of the seats which sit sideways to the stage.  Yet they stage everything (or at least the two plays I've seen) just for the front facing seats.  Sadly we have side seats, but they are close to the "good" seats this time.  The play began with the majority of the stage covered up.

But when uncovered, look at that set design!  A yurt!  And burned trees draped with plenty of objects scavenged from a fire.

The play itself was a weeper.  It dealt with loss.  One couple was grieving their daughter's murder and the other couple was grieving the loss of the their house, cat and the cancer that had spread through the husband. The emotions were raw, both in the characters in the play and the audible crying in the audience. It was also incredibly funny in parts and very worth seeing. 

Complete Works Project!

Great news!  Theater companies in Portland are going to perform every single Shakespeare play over the next two years.  It's called the Complete Works Project.  As Matt and I have been chipping away at the canon for several years now, this is very exciting. We have about 18 left to see, so we will keep our eyes out for those productions.  You can read more about the project, including interacting with the above (super awesome) graphic, where clicking on the title will give you information about the plays and their productions.  http://www.completeworksproject.org/

Huzzah!

For some time I've envisioned us 20 years later, still just waiting for that production of Henry VI, parts I, II & III.  But Opsfest is doing the first installment this summer!