We usually go to Target and Fred Meyer (the PNW Kroger’s), but I find the selection sucks. It always the side characters and I don’t see any of the anniversary cars I see on this sub. Where are you all getting your cars from?
Mine’s Pier Park. Huge, forested, got good little trails, and some parts are a cool reprieve during this 90-degree weather.
We hired someone to build it but oh my goodness what a relief. The old shed had rodents living in it with poop everywhere it was disgusting. Now I can actually go inside! Has a light and one outlet.
I bought a bag of Columbian beans from my local coffee shop yesterday and brewed it today and was so disappointed. I was in pinch as I was out of beans but this one I got tasted so flat (actually come to think of it when I get beans from this roaster they all kind of taste the same).
All that being said, it’s been a while I’ve had a “fruit bomb” and now I’m really craving it.
Any recommendations for a natural processed bean (I typically gravitate towards Ethiopians)?
Thanks in advance!
Wife wants to put it on her water bottle but needs to be able to intelligently speak about it if asked. Help!
Sorry for the phone lens being smudged but loved this little Suzuki.
I have this Aeron chair I bought a few years ago from a yard sale. It’s not perfect shape, but mostly works. The lumbar on the back is ripped (but intact), the up and down adjustment needs to be greased.
I know they sell kits where you can replace certain parts but I never ended up bothering with it. Just taking up space in a small office room.
Please take it off my hands.
First come, first serve.
In Kenton.
I’m going to the employee store for the very first time and saw this guideline…is this truly a thing? I don’t own any Nike shoes. I only have a pair of Adidas sambas and the my Hoka running shoes. What the hell am I supposed to wear to go inside…?
I’ve watched this movie probably 4-5 times now but this time I was thinking that I wished Forrest Whittaker’s character escaped. Also that this movie is kinda like a thriller version of Home Alone.
We are all told to put glass in the little yellow bin, but when I see the trash/recycling people come around they just dump the glass in with the rest of the blue bin. Why are we separating them in the first place then?
FWIW, I use Wacker Sanitary in NoPo.
(And yes, I’m aware that much of recycling is a hoax anyway).
Please bear with me on the length of this post…
I’m 41M, born in Taiwan, grew up /attended college in the Bay Area. For my first “real job” I moved to NYC and landed in a nice affluent neighborhood, Park Slope, just one avenue from Prospect Park. This was my first time really living away from the Bay Area and the west coast. This was back in 2010/2011.
The neighborhood I lived in was predominantly white. There were Asian women, but most you saw were coupled with white men. There weren’t many Asian men in the neighborhood at all. I would ride my bike to commute between Brooklyn to Wall Street where my job was.
I lived in the apartment for about 1.5 years and I was mistaken 4-5 times for the food delivery guy when I was going into the building with my bike. If you’ve been to NYC, you know there are a lot of bike food delivery Asian men. At the time (and up till very recently) I was very annoyed because I thought that was outright racist of the other neighbors to think I was just delivering food and an Asian man couldn’t possibly live there.
In the last few days I’ve been thinking about this a lot. From their (white people in the building) angle, I could see if you were only exposed to Asian men as food delivery people then I might be able to see why you would’ve mistaken me.
But I’ve started to ask myself other questions:
- Am I taking too privileged of an approach to feel that this is racist?
- If I were brown/latino, would I still feel this is racist?
- If I thought this whole thing was preposterous, then what race or ethnicity would I then think the food delivery guy should be?
Sure, I can think if I were a white person pushing my bike into the building then maybe they wouldn’t have mistaken me as a good delivery guy. However, reflecting on this also has exposed to me that I have some racial/ethnic hierarchy inherently up in mind as well thinking maybe “they can’t mistake me for a food delivery guy, those people are ___ race, and that’s not me!” Is it wrong/privileged to feel offended by these interactions, do I need to check my pride?
Thoughts?
I know this place recently opened in Oregon City…looks like they took over this old Shari’s location at Delta Park. Along with the new Delta Park food carts are businesses suddenly springing up because the bottle drop is closing at the end of July?
My wife did not hesitate: Couch. Nickname: Couchie.
This thread was popping off in r/askportland but got removed and suggested it be posted here instead. Have at it!
Cesar Chavez and Belmont. Cheapest gas in the city. You have to go in and pay via debit pin but it’s worth it.
This coffee plant tattoo is about 10 years old. My dear friend tattooed it but she has since retired from the profession. I would like to get another tattoo on my forearm beneath it, but I want something different/ not looking to just continue it. I want something colorful, but very open to different artistic styles but am worried whatever I get below it will clash too much with this plant tattoo. Any thoughts or anyone do something similar?
EDIT: I’ll also add my other arm is more small pieces “a la carte” arm as I typically refer to it and is mostly black ink. So the artistic and color styles constraint between my two arms.
I see so many posts here asking about where to live - most of them asking about neighborhoods, or some about suburbs outside of Portland, or even…Vancouver. But I would love to hear from folks who received recommendations on here and where they ended up moving to, especially folks from other states who have never been to Portland before or only vaguely knew it. What were your impressions upon arriving here and what drove your decision?
Hey all,
First time posting in this sub. I wanted to share my experience growing up as well as a bit about my adult life. Not sure what I'm looking for. Maybe/not really looking for suggestions, but mainly want to hear if there are others who feel like I feel.
I was born in Taipei and my parents moved us to the Bay Area when I was 4 back in the late 80's. From a really early age I had a desire to feel accepted by my white peers. I really wanted to assimilate (I didn't know that word as a kid, obviously) to American culture. I remember vividly one night when my elementary school had an open-house night and my mom was about to take us home to make her typical Taiwanese dishes, but I threw a tantrum in the courtyard of the school yelling "We live in AMERICA, why can't you make American dishes like macaroni and cheese?!?" My mom was so gentle and accommodating and she really tried to make American dishes after that, which I really am appreciative of reflecting back.
As I grew older through high school and college, I had a good balance of Asian and non-Asian friends. I felt like I've always had very "white people" interests - baseball, hockey, animal rights, cycling. Because of these activities, I felt like my friends group naturally became whiter as the years progressed.
In my adult life, my first long term relationship was with another Taiwanese person. We were together for many years, but ultimately, it didn't work out. After that I dated white women, and fast forward to today, I'm married to a white woman and we have a cute mixed son.
I work remotely and have lived in Portland, Oregon now for 6 years. Prior to this, I lived in Austin, and NYC before that. By now you can probably see where this is going...
Because of my current phase of life (father to a toddler) and work from home, I don't have much of a social life, but the friends I do have are all white. I would say I maybe encounter another Asian person maybe once a week (if we aren't counting my colleagues over Zoom). I really miss being around other Asian people. I miss being able to have that shared connection and things that come with growing up Asian - the guilt/duty to your parents. Stereotypes/ inside jokes/ all the stuff a white people wouldn't necessarily understand.
Bottom line: I've spent so much of my life trying to assimilate to American culture and become more "white", that I now feel like I've lost ties to the Asian community and I miss it. I love my family and love living where we live, but I often also long for community that looks more like me.
Anyone else can relate?