DISPENCE

I’m in an Apple store in downtown Portland checking out the new Apple iPad. First I checked out my own website and then I thought why not just do a blog post! So far it’s not that bad. Although I find it a little reaching to get my thumbs across the keyboard holding it in portrait here.

I’d take a photo but there’s no camera!

I can’t choose the category. But I do notice it is auto saving just like on a desktop. Wait, just figured out I can choose a category in my word press software here. Looks like everything is functional, pretty cool. But really, it just seems like an expensive toy. If I could get photos from my camera on here then upload them, then we’d be talking about a real useful device.
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Saturday we headed to Hood River to check out a rally race. The Oregon Trail Rally is one of ten stops in the Rally America series. There were a bunch of cool Subarus. The WRX and STi were the most common but there were some older models, too.

Before heading to the designated spectator area, we checked out the cars on display at the Hood River County Fairgrounds. This was a great opportunity to see the cars all clean and buffed out.

Below is Travis Pastrana’s Subaru WRX STi. He won the weekend and is in first place in the Championship standings.

After checking out the cars, we headed up Fir Mountain RD to watch the racing. After waiting for about two and a half hours, the drivers came by.

Pastrana came first.  The racers were spaced at two minute intervals because the the dust. (more…)