Wild Monkeys!

Thanks for keeping it real, Reed and Reedies. I was able to attend as much of Renn Fayre as I ever do as a parent, and to enjoy my retirement from Meatsmoke leadership. Great job, next generations of smokers and Renn Fayre staff! I had a super time and I hope all of you who attended did, too.

Happy Renn Fayre! Happy Beltane! Happy festival season!

From cooking and hosting a gourmet dinner party for two other couples and their total of three kids, to (earlier) watching all those kids and our own two (including elaborate kid painting project!) with one and then two of the other parents while D and the remaining two parents were at a spa getting massages and soaking and saunaing and so forth, to going running for the first time in forever, to helping a prosecutor-recently-turned-defense-lawyer acquaintance work on one of her first motions to suppress statements, to having gotten a bit of extra sleep in the morning, today was a good day.

Beer & sausages at 8 this evening at Amnesia Brewing Co. with mustela et al.

Super bonus points to anyone who can identify the source of the subject line.

That was one of the best weekends of travel I have had in YEARS.

So good to see/meet all of you, and to celebrate the incredible ariiadne and vyrin. So VERY good.

I don't know what I can add this happily tired night except OM NOM NOM

I'll be barbecuing at the Reed alumni webconference tenth anniversary party at Reed Reunions tonight. I can't believe we've collectively been around that long!

D, poor dear, was sick and went to bed early, and WD was tired and went to bed at the normal time after a fun evening with Daddy. That left me to go out and wander in the moonlight. First I went to the amazing cob sauna at Tryon Life Community Farm with my friend Jenny and lots of lovely hippies and fellow travelers. Then I sojourned to the Horse Brass, where I found a co-worker and other criminal defense lawyer friends, and ended up quite accidentally on the winning darts side. All in all it was just the evening I needed.

I just won the most difficult victory of my career to date: a complete acquittal on charges of robbery in the first degree with a firearm; two counts of robbery in the second degree with a firearm; burglary in the first degree of an occupied dwelling, causing injury, with a firearm; and aggravated animal abuse in the first degree.

Now I am going to Legin for dinner and then the Horse Brass for drinks for this and for my birthday. Come to the Horse Brass after 8:30!

That concert was really fun.

Wow, I just went to a great party. It was my friend David Rolin's 69th birthday party. He is Portland's finest erotic photographer. I have rarely boogied with such an eclectic crowd, from his agepeer wealthy art patrons to his thirtyish pierced tattooed models to OCFairies to Burners to musicians (he's a magical drummer) and on and on. David and his wife have an astonishing home/gallery/studio in relatively close-in North Portland with a gorgeous back garden. They are consummate hosts. Solovox fucking burned the HOUSE DOWN with his unique synth/DJ blend. And at 12:30 a flying-saucer-like contraption was lowered by chain over the dance floor and, lit by strobe in the puffs of the fog machine, unveiled itself to reveal, suspended above us all as we toasted David, two athletic women making out and dancing as one while David's intimate photos were projected on the wall behind them.

And on and on and oh yes and my my and I have not had such a good time dancing (in my Utilikilt and Power of the Carp shirt) for how long I don't remember.

Parties! How can we describe them in words? I am very happy. May you be too. And when in doubt it is better to grin at strangers, all squinty-eyed, and very slowly, very subtly stick the tip of your tongue out.

I am so happy. My presentation at the OCDLA annual conference was well-attended, I felt confident and comfortable with the materials (albeit only by dint of extensive last-minute preparation), and people said nice things about it afterward. I even went over time -- that's more than an hour of speaking to people who are way more professionally experienced than me on average!

Plus last night Andy and I threw a very well-attended and fairly wild (for a lawyers' meeting) party that also got good reviews.

And I still have a super-fun weekend ahead. Yay! I hope all your lives are equally satisfying at present.

I'm so excited to see him at the Red & Black at 8:00 - lots of friends are going, including ariiadne, invertedreptile, misshepeshu, and gods know who else. Come join us! Drinking thereafter at the Horse Brass or other appropriate pub.