Land of Mt. Hood and the Source of the East Wind

Another nicer than expected day here in Gresham. Sun is out and it is not raining. Currently 57F here as of high noon. No wind.

Had a nice lunch with Kim yesterday at the buffet. Then home to watch the final game of the World Series, and finish off the Halloween candy! First time in years I've had a television to watch the Series on!

A Gresham homeless man got a short ride in a Waste Management truck when the dumpster he was sleeping in was dumped into the truck! Fortunately the driver heard him screaming and got him out! The housing crises in the Portland area is never ending!

There was talk of converting a county jail, that our brilliant politicians spent $58 million to build in 2004 but have never used, into a shelter for the homeless. A guy made an offer to buy it for $9 million, and it was being considered the the county commission, but he backed out now at the last minute. What a fiasco!

They have a new security guard here at the library, and he seems like a nice enough guy. I'm glad the woman guard the used to have is gone. She was a strict old witch!

There is an article in the current Portland Tribune "Can the local election be rigged?" I arrived at the library a little while before it opened today. One of the guys waiting outside the library reported that he saw one person alone picked up a ballot box from the library! State law requires that two people must be present for all election tasks, so they can watch each other. That ballot box might have ended up in a local swamp for all anybody knows!

And the beat goes on!

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