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The Quality Pie Situation: Prelude

You may know my schedule analyses, broken down into chunks.

Well, in my latest chunk analysis, I dropped this little tidbit in at the end:

How's Quality Pie doing? Let's just say things are changing at this end of the wire.
My status in relation to both The Bedge and the Blazers is poised to change
a heckuvalot (a good-news/bad-news picture if ever there was one);
by December 12, I'll probably be more open about that. But not now. 

Well now. Much to my surprise, you all sure rose to THAT bait, as evidenced by the responses:

LaMarvelous: I obviously have no idea what you were hinting at near the end of your post but if it means that you will be spending less time here then you will be greatly missed. I hope that what ever it is, that it will be a positive thing for you.

My reply: That depends on the meaning of the word "here". I'll be in one "here" a heck of a lot more, and another "here" a whole lot less.

Then, this:

maid tu rek: i hope your HEAR is with the blazers, but for me, i hope its HEAR with us.

My reply: “with us” depends on whether or not you’re in Portland.

And:

KP Corleone: I'll be interested to see how your status is changing in relation to the Blazers and Bedge . . .
Getting called up to back up Dave and Ben? Getting called up to a role in the organization?
Whatever change is on the horizon, good luck.

My reply:Ohhhhh, no no no, nothing like that.
I'm just an attendee, same as the rest of you/us.

And this weirdness:

everett: Having a baby?

tominhawaii: I think he got a job at 1 center court.

everett: That'd be good too.

Last of all, this exchange that started with the responsible question, and ended with heresyHeresyHERESY:

MavetheGreat: I’m not up to date on your current status with The Bedge and The Blazers in order to identify any change that transpires at your aforementioned time. Can you bring me up to speed?

rmcdougall: I think that right now, he’s just a very interesting poster. He’s just like any of us, but has interesting things to say.

pualo: I'm not sure what his Good News is, but I’m pretty sure the Bad News is that he’s going to become a Laker fan.

I guess THAT (a L[xxx]r fan?!? You have me confused with Marentette. Which would be the very definition of Good News/Bad News if ever I've heard one, I s'pose) is my cue to straighten things out, and "bring you up to speed" with "my current status with The Bedge and The Blazers in order to identify any change that transpires at my aforementioned time."

Awright. You asked for it. Life story time.

  • Raised all kama'aina and da kine (ask TiH - and hey, tom, where's the TiH index breakdown for this season?).
  • Eugene, Oregon, for the '90-'91 school year. Dropped out of UO with 2 1/2 college years and moved back to Hawaii.
  • Moved to Portland in the lovely autumn of 1993, following the 1993 non-summer which autumn made up for.
  • Worked restaurants and became KQPW (Keep Quality Pie Weird) in the Sabas/Elliott era in PDX.
  • Went back to school at PSU to finish the unfinished. Graduated a Viking (like Ime Udoka) at the end of the 2003 summer term.
  • Celebrated graduation by going to see Radiohead on August 31, 2003. Met a girl. It felt promising/intriguing. Got her phone number.
  • October 2003: Called her back. Calls and eMails ensued. Things happened.
  • December: Visited her. Sealed the deal.
  • Early February 2004: Left Portland to be with her.
  • Late March 2004: Oh, hey. Did I mention she's in Canada? The bigger Vancouver? So I can't work/live there legally. I Drag my sorry [Bonzi] back down to Portland and try to figure out how to work this.
  • December 2004: After several more visits, we marry, which allows the process for my moving up there as a permanent resident (by way of spouse of a Canadian citizen) to happen.
  • August 2005: Canadian Permanent Resident status granted. I move up for good.
  • So,  moved up here (Oh! Canada) just over 3 years ago, after getting set on doing so 5 years ago, getting married 4 years ago to facilitate it.

Been here for 3 years straight, with my aim here for 5 years. It's not been an easy 3/5 years. A few months as a wine shop clerk, a year in a coffee shop at the snooty end of town, a year in a coffee shop in the hipster realm, entered a technical institution's surveying program at summer 2008's start to get on a career track. 

Blazer fan since 1993, when I became a Portland resident until 2005.

Prelude over. Fugue next.

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hahahahaha!

That’s a good first response. Thank you.

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." - Ernest Hemingway

by QualityPie on Dec 1, 2008 9:46 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

I only saw the word Radiohead

nice

"It’s a good ol’ fashioned Rip City beat down!"

by Magnum on Dec 1, 2008 10:43 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

GIVE US FUGUE!

That is really hideous
--jscot

by prezofdeath on Dec 1, 2008 11:23 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Dude, are you just eatin' up the attention or what? :)

I have never been patient with cliff hangers.

Tune in next week for the next exciting episode of “All My Pies”.

Will Jane have that sex change operation?

Did Mark really murder the newpaper boy?

Will Aunt Gertrude get control her hemorrhoids?

Will LaMarvelous ever stop making dumb jokes? (The answer to this one is no.) :)

Blazer's Edge Ambassador to The Dream Shake Blog
It is Official! LMA is BACK!!!
39:33 Mins 11-19 FGs 5-5 FTs +23 3 Off 4 Rebs 2 Stl 1 Blk 27 Points! - LMA vs Det 11-30-08

by LaMarvelous on Dec 2, 2008 12:03 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

vancouver bc is a great city

ive been there maybe 20 times, mostly in the 90s. vastly preferable to seattle (in terms of traffic, general livability).

east indian food like we just cant get here in portland, as well as chinese in chinatown.

very different “foreign” feel just in the architecture of common houses……yet one can blend in because everyone speaks english.

nothing like lying on the grass in the stanley park looking at the masts of all the boats on a warm summer day. just a beautiful city.

i don’t understand the lack of left-turn signals though on big streets. little bit inefficient, eh? (do you now say “aboot” for “about”?)

ignacio

by ignacio on Dec 2, 2008 12:20 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

Like the LaBrea tar pits,

once you step your foot in, your unlikely to get out.

But perhaps you’ve found a way???

Everybody was a baby once, Arthur. Oh, sure, maybe not today, or even yesterday. But once. Babies, chum: tiny, dimpled, fleshy mirrors of our us-ness, that we parents hurl into the future, like leathery footballs of hope. And you've got to get a good spiral on that baby, or evil will make an interception.

by shenanigans on Dec 2, 2008 6:04 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

LeBron in 2010

No offense, I really like your post. They are, in fact, great. But all this build up is reminding me of the media and LeBron talking about 2010. Are you the LeBron of Bloggers? It might be giving the impression that you think you are the center of the universe. If the news is anything less than you getting a great job with the blazers and being able to give us juicy insider information, ouch. I have a feeling people will respond like they do when finding out that the whole movie/tv show they just watched was a dream.
At any rate, I do hope you are able to keep writing on this site.

by twggyy on Dec 2, 2008 8:15 AM PST reply actions   1 recs

My theory

QP is a spy. His cover was to be a happly dislocated American…. until now! His sleeper cell has been activated and he must…at great peril… do the unthinkable…steal the Vancouver Grizzley’s mascot and bring it back to his one true basketball love, The Portland Trail Blazers and then kill Blaze the Trailcat………Hey wait!! …..no one ever updated this plan…this sucks. OK…Abort mission!!!…Abort mission!

On drowning my daughter before she becomes a teenager (to my son)-"You know how when you want to drown someone, you first tie something heavy to the their foot?" My Son: "Yeah?" Me:"You're the something heavy"

by 92wastheyear on Dec 2, 2008 12:35 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

He did have to change his plan.

That’s why he’s going to become the Laker mascot. I think it’s a puddle or something.

by pualo on Dec 2, 2008 3:03 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

don't stop now

keep going QP – Elgin

He who life can no longer surprise raises his eyes, beholds a planet unknown. - Peter Gabriel

by 22baylor on Dec 2, 2008 12:42 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

TiH stats

I thought I’d wait until after the trade deadline. I was kind of busy at the start of the season.

by tominhawaii on Dec 3, 2008 6:25 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

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