Bryan Robb

Category: Notes

  • Going to see Stars tonight in . Pretty excited. I used to love this album…20 years ago. These reunion tours are starting to make me feel my age.

  • Despite some lingering pain from last week, I decided to try the Smith machine again yesterday. I kept the weight light and got a good night sleep after stretching. I feel so much better today than I did following last week’s session. Wish I had a lifting buddy, I really want to make this a habit.

  • Went to the gym on Wednesday and figured I’d try some squats on the smith machine. Started off super easy at 75 lbs because I didn’t want to injure myself. Five days later and my hamstrings are still stiff and ache.

  • Caught a whiff of someone smoking clove cigarettes tonight and it sent me back to freshman year of college (1999/2000) in East Lansing. All my antics and failings. Total olfactory teleportation. Amazing how scents can send us back in time.

  • Seeing Nilüfer Yanya at Wonder Ballroom tonight. Leaving the house past 7pm on a Sunday night feels like it should be illegal at my age.

  • Detroit Lions are going to the Super Bowl this year. A man can dream, anyway.

  • Hillsboro, Oregon has such beautiful parks & rec facilities. Very kid friendly town. We come to this area a lot because there’s an aquatic center, library, and a beautiful park all on the same block. And we inevitably spend some money downtown, too.

  • My kindergartener can now count into the 100s and is starting to read. My two-year-old daughter’s language development is exploding. It’s so much fun seeing little human minds develop.

  • Who needs a truck, anyway?

  • Timing Chewy deliveries exactly to my dog’s eating habits has never happened.

  • Downtown Portland

  • Just learned about the ‘[Copenhagen Left](https://youtu.be/YGnZOzNWzCc?si=6d5JQb_AncmJ9sFd)’ turn for cyclists.

  • Love a good weekend breakfast. I like my eggs over medium with buttered toast and raspberry jam. Hashbrowns. Descent coffee. It’s the small things.

  • Finally got the update with Actual Smart Summon (ASS). Looking forward to trying it out tomorrow. Teslas FSD is getting to the point where it’s safer than human drivers.

    youtu.be/-9p0jUJZqG8?si=NBKB01

  • How are Portlanders feeling about this ranked choice voting ballot?

  • Cereal is dessert, who are we kidding

  • The former Guild Theatre’s marquee and façade. Portland, Oregon.

  • The Park Blocks. Portland, Oregon.

    A serene park scene features a pathway adorned with string lights leading to a decorative stone structure, surrounded by lush green trees.

  • I love carrying my 40mm f/2 because of its unobtrusive size and weight, but I invariably regret not taking something with more reach whenever I’m shooting street.

  • Downtown this morning.

  • Good morning.

  • I’m loving the frequency improvement of MAX trains west of downtown Beaverton now that the Better Red extension is complete. Instead of 15 minutes, we’re getting trains every 7-8 minutes. It makes a difference when I’m deciding which mode to take when my morning is chaos.

  • I have to keep reminding myself that Bluesky and Threads aren’t showing us ads yet. Even though their experiences are better than Mastodon, it won’t always be that way. Meta in particular is just training us to be addicted to the app.

  • I didn’t have “peeing next to a former female supervisor” on my 2024 bingo card, but this conference at the downtown pdx Marriott has fully genderless public restrooms, and here we are.

  • Me, an introvert, scanning the conference agenda for sessions that don’t have audience engagement components or group work.