A couple of very tall, elegant, French women are walking around our kitchen making tea.

We were doing the silent co-existing maneuver that is so popular in elevators, when one of them noticed a jar on the kitchen table: "Izzat?"

Me: "Oui c'est, madame. That is indeed, a honking, huge jar of chronic."
Her: "Croonik?"
"It's weed lady, the whole neighborhood's gone to pot. Help yourself but be careful, it's strong.
Made of Oregon sunshine."
She said: "Portland is like Amsterdam."
Me: "No, I'm pretty sure they have universal healthcare there. Here if we get sick or hurt, they want us to die or work till we die of old age. Murika."
Her: "I see why you like deu pot."
Me: "Oui, Madame."

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A young S. Korean woman just walking into the kitchen wearing only a tiny shirt and panties.

She was very embarrassed to see me and apologized over and over as she backpedaled out of the room. 
Now we are even. When we met this morning, I was only wearing a towel. 
I hope she knows I don't care. 
I'm somewhere between indifferent and slightly amused. 
She came back with some clothes on asking me to help her open a huge bottle of IPA. 
I think she may be the shyest party animal on the block.

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Meanwhile... I took a fishing trip in the neighborhood

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young rap stars

Last night I was kicking it with a couple young bucks from Japan. 
We don't speak the same language but they communicated really well that they wanted beer. 
I took them to get some beers nearby, for the adventure... I don't drink anymore. :) 
On the way, one of them was telling me he is way into lap. 
I didn't know what lap was until he started scratching and beat boxing. He said he is in a rap group called, "The red gang." I quickly had to ask him, "So, do you gangsters commit a lot of crimes?" Him: "NO NO NO not criminal." Good to know kid. Dig this. 


We are at 39th and Powell Safeway, maybe not the best place to tell anyone you are in a red gang.
They were in the store a long time marveling at the scale of the Safeway food mall. 

The Japanese men got themselves some good beers but only drank a couple because apparently they also tried grass for the first time with a clown. 
That limited how much beer they were gonna be into but they did have a great time chilling with me on the porch. Here he is teaching me Japanese phrases for my collection.

I met a handsome doctor last night ooooh!

 LOL ok we already met. He is staying in one of the rooms that rent in our place. Last night Olive was out of town. Steven is a mid-30-something Doc from New Zealand. 
He was visiting Corvallis tracking down distant relatives and decided to take a few days on Puddletown. 
We traded life stories last night as he watched me eat a plate of bacon. He said he has been trying to do at least one ink drawing per day. I asked him if he wanted to do some art with me by way of video taping a bike ride. 
He was all over it. There is avid cycling in NZ but nothing to the scale of Portland. 
I lent him a beach cruiser and we took off. I asked him what he wanted to see and he mentioned the big mural by the tracks with plants growing out of it. 
He noticed it from the bus and wanted a better look. I was glad that he was narrating into the gopro with that amazing accent. 

When we got there we noticed how cool the mural was and also noticed I neglected to bring SD cards for both gopros (like a ditz). No footage night, bummer. 
So we lit out exploring 11pm Portland. 
We rolled downtown and over the Tillicum bridge twice. He kept looking at the infrastructure and saying "Wow, so fancy." I enjoyed rolling with him and discovered it's really easy to get medical advice from a doc when you are asking about an ailment you don't have. 
I got him telling me all about dysentery and child birth. I learned a lot. 
We discussed so much, it really should have been a podcast. He had heaps of questions about clowning, our life and of course Patch Adams. It's a bit of a struggle rolling with folks who aren't conditioned to ride fast for hours like us. He did well and immediately passed out in his room when we got back. That''s what's up Doc.
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Japanese folks and our tallbikes

By some interesting coincidence, last night both rooms were rented by early 30 somethings from The land of the rising sun. Japan.

It was our great honor to show them our life and ask about theirs.

We all had a lovely morning together.  After a round of strong coffee we showed them how to ride our tallbikes. 

Oops layed it down.

This dude was a natural.

Nice day for a ride.

My bike takes a pic every 5 seconds so I got a lot of pics. This post is for them to choose what pics they want.

That was fun. Now to show them my office.

yes, my office is a cardboard box. They thought that was a riot.

He is asking "Is...that Marijuana?"

Calls his lady and friend.

They watched me roll a doobie. They politley applauded when I was done. I said "American origami"

I never mention people's names when I talk about them. If anything they do in our country gets them into trouble in their country, I don't want it to be because I gave up their names. "Security culture" is international.

They didn't want any but they were facinated watching and photographing me smoke a joint by myself. That works for me.

We will miss these nice folks. I wish we all lived closer.

If this guy lived here I would want to ride with him all the time. He was good and confident.

Good times. 

We collected more Japanese language and three new friends this morning.  

That was great. It's so sad to see one of them go. 

We get to keep the other two a few more days. I hope they are having a great honeymoon here in the states.

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meanwhile...we rocked out for the kiddos everyday.

Olive said "Hey come downstairs...and bring a camara!"

Here is something you don't see every day. 

Houseclowns get to scrub trashcans.

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meanwhile...this is the first year we were in the Division parade and actually live here

We did this parade so many times. Usually we don't have such a short commute.

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mexican food

We have been "single serving" friends to a couple of cool cats from China. 
There is a bit of a language barrier but that's my fault. 
They were nice enough to show up knowing a lot of my language. 
They are a riot. One of them was brave enough to ask for a ride on my tallbike.
 It was super funny. 
They got really animated. 
They said they never tried Mexican food.
We decided to take them to the Mercado.

They still haven't tried Mexican food. They don't know English or Spanish so they were just going by the photos outside the foodcart. They got lunch from a Cuban food vender. :)

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I get gifted remnants of the pot safaris

When the guests leave they often give me the remainder of their weed (and lighters) that they bought. Can't take it on the plane. Bummer.
I know it sounds like a boon for Dingo (it is, they saves me a lot of money)
but I'm not all about me. I want them to keep their stuff.
 I want them to take it home and show the red states how green our thumbs are here. 
They tell me how back home, herb is treated like it's a hard drug. It's a big part of filling those private prison cells. 
:) Last night a couple from Kansas gave me this little can o goodies and a bunch of joints. 
Deelighted. I threw it in the pile with the rest of them. 
Pretty sweet perk but I do wish they could take their stuff home.Then late last night I dipped into it and realized...whooo, this is kind of strong. 
I like a head change but I'm never a fan of being intoxicated. 
I'm all about the neighborhood homegrown so I gotta remember to read the labels.
People on weed safari get the real fire. I guess that's why they never finish it. 

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Meanwhile night missions roll on.

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where is the tv?

Lady from the mid-west is here with her son.
Every face she makes looks like she is looking at a car accident.
I'm not holding it against her.
She doesn't owe me anything.
We were playing Dungeons and Dragons
 at the livingroom table as she explored the whole house.
She finally came to the table and asked
 "Where is the TV? There isn't a single TV in the house."
We all looked at each other comfortable in the fact that we are fascinating enough.

"Sorry Mam, we're good."

She was the first bad review.
She thought we were loud and had no TV.

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Meanwhile...we still enjoy riding in rain