January 01, 2004
Another reason I maintain a blog: new friends
A few days ago, I mentioned that I was visiting Portland, Oregon, and was updating my blog from my hotel room. One of my readers, Michael Reed, offered to buy me lunch in downtown Portland. Right before I left, we did meet up, and spent over two hours exchanging interesting bits of information, ranging from restaurants to books to DVDs - he'd bought Firefly based on my blog entry earlier, which was gratifying - to insights on concealed carry in Oregon and other states. Michael gave me a great deal follow up on, and I'll be posting some of his recommendations soon.
Speaking of recommendations, I would be remiss not to mention that the place we had lunch was Sungari, a Szechwan restaurant in Portland's Yamhill district. I had the Rainbow Scallops, which were huge, succulent, and wonderfully spicy. Thanks for lunch, Michael!
You are most welcome! I'm very glad that I checked your blog on Sunday to find you in Portland. All quite serendipitous, no?
Posted by: Michael Reed on January 1, 2004 03:43 PMAbsolutely! This episode (our meeting) and a few others recently have reinvigorated my interest in making this what I hope continues to be a useful and - again I hope - an interesting personal blog.
Will you be starting your own personal blog in the near future?
Posted by: Russell Whitaker on January 1, 2004 03:46 PMStill thinking about starting my own blog. I checked out TypePad today.
I will certainly keep you posted.
Posted by: Michael Reed on January 1, 2004 05:39 PMTypePad is certainly a great way to go: it's the hosted blog solution by the makers of Moveable Type, the high-end software I run on a Linux box to host this blog. It's a vastly better solution than older, dumber hosted solutions such as Blogspot.
Posted by: Russell Whitaker on January 1, 2004 08:29 PMThanks for the tips on typepad. I checked it out and I'll be using that for now on instead of the free blog host i have now that is terrible.
Posted by: Survival Kit on February 2, 2006 02:06 PM