Seriously? The winter weather is especially persistent in the northwest this year. This is only the second day in the last month that it has been sunny AND warm (where warm is defined as "above 60 degrees") AND dry. It's a great day for biking, and it's the sort of day that brings the whole city out to walk, skate, run, bike, and play on the river waterfront in downtown Portland.

Last night I had the great pleasure of seeing Jonathan Coulton in concert, along with the extremely talented and hilarious Paul and Storm. Thanks go to keturn for getting me tickets and even saving two seats for D and me (the show was sold out). Coulton played Still Alive and a bunch of other great songs. It was a great opportunity to be able to see him perform.

In other news, I finally got a Twitter account. Anyone that knows me probably knows that I wait until a new web service is no longer new before I start using it, if I use it at all. (When will I learn? People always take my preferred username...)

Last Wednesday I took my first Violin lesson with Wendy Goodwin. It went really well and I'm excited to start sounding like total crap! I love Violin music and look forward to learning to play some. I think my music-reading skills will come back pretty quickly. Getting my left hand to adjust to the fingerboard will be another matter entirely.

Oh, and I have asparagus!