California

January 31st, 2012

If you drive I-5 in Northern California and Southern Oregon, you may notice some references to the State of Jefferson.  There’s a barn near Yreka with a giant sign and lots of cars on the road have “Resident of State of Jefferson” license plate holders. What’s it all about? In 1941, Port Orford, Oregon Mayor [...]

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January 26th, 2012

Yesterday I called Wells Fargo in an attempt to make some progress on one of my goals for the year. I explained to the customer service rep that our house was “severely underwater”, and that I wanted to find out what my options were. She asked if I’d filed a Damage/Loss of Value claim. I [...]

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December 5th, 2011

Bryn and I have been sitting on a gift certificate for indoor skydiving at iFly ever since our wedding.  We finally got around to using it last Friday — thanks Christy & Brian! The set-up is basically a vertical wind-tunnel, with wind up to 180 mph to simulate a real free fall.  It doesn’t really [...]

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November 11th, 2011

If you’ve driven along 580 lately, perhaps you’ve seen this sign, protesting the construction of a giant new premium outlet mall.  The sign claims the planned Paragon Outlets hurts the local community.  How so? I wondered. The mall, which is scheduled to open in November 2012, is being built on a huge empty lot, not [...]

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October 25th, 2011

You know how everyone looks like a goof riding a Segway?  Turns out they don’t care, because it’s awesome.  We played tourist in SF last weekend, thanks to Bryn and her savvy Groupon-ing. Along the route we learned some interesting trivia, some of which was even new to semi-locals like us. In a period of [...]

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October 7th, 2011

In a big political deal between Amazon.com and California, the affiliate nexus law that forced me to move to Nevada has been put on a 1-year hold.  As part of the deal, Amazon has promised to build a distribution center in California, bringing much needed jobs to the state and setting themselves up to collect [...]

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