More accurately I am referring to life here in Portland, Oregon.  Having spent the last three days battling the flu I can tell you that I’d rather be hit by a truck, less pain involved.  My activities have been limited to what I can accomplish while sitting at my desk, although I did manage to inflate the tires on my bicycle in hopes that I will be well enough to ride to work in the morning.

Also, kudos to Netflix.  I found out quite by accident that Netflix now allows multiple devices to stream instant viewing from a single account.  I do not recall getting a single message from Netflix announcing this new feature and I assume it was a quiet rollout to keep a handle on bandwidth.  But regardless, it works quite well and brings tremendous value to me as a Netflix customer.  At any given time there are at least three PC’s streaming video or music or gaming over our home network and now we do not have to have a schedule set up when someone wants to watch a movie or TV show.  Nice job Netflix!

Another fun but pointless little project that I have been playing around with has been using my old webcam to create time lapse videos.  Nothing award winning so far, just doing it to pass the time.

If it’s March and it’s Oregon it must mean, (gasp!) rain.  Don’t get me wrong, I love the rain and I love Oregon but this entire week has been hellish at work so when I ended up staying late tonight I was not entirely pleased to find myself standing in the rain getting soaked.  But it is what it is.  If nothing else, I have another photograph to add to my collection.  Fellow Oregonians, remember, summer is a mere 4 months away.  Maybe.

I feel good.  Today was an absolutely shitty day at work and I almost threw my computer through the window but once 6pm rolled around and I was out the door things improved tremendously.  The bike ride home from work was so enjoyable now that I have a proper headlight to light my path.  I’m speaking of course of the Cygolite Pace 135 headlight that I recently scored on sale at Performance Bike.  Seriously, this single light kicks ass.  I no longer feel like I am risking life and limb when I ride through the near pitch black sections of my route home.  As I said once before, I now look forward to riding at night.  I don’t know why I waited so long to get a serious headlight for my bicycle.

And as an added bonus, Google added a new biking tool to their already awesome map!