Because I come here to learn about what's going on with the Blazers more than anything else and that was the closest I could find.

As for a little about myself, I'm 28, in the Air Force, and stationed in Las Vegas.

I grew up in Lake Oswego and Tualatin, graduated from Tualatin High School and promise you that my family wasn't nearly as rich as that makes it sound (not that we were poor though ;-) ).

I'm 6' 5" and have no basketball skills whatsoever.  Even if I did, my best case scenario would be a Kyle Korver type with bad knees... maybe Larry Steele.

I chose "To Learn the Word of the People" because, believe it or not, there isn't alot of Blazers coverage up here in Seattle.

I'm a 7th-generation Iowan.
I was initially drawn to the Pacific Northwest by a Rice Krispies commercial.
I lived in Portland on two separate occasions, and for about a year on each occasion.
My dog is a runt white boxer named Daisy.
I'm 27 and have already been married and divorced.
I went to grade school in Des Moines, Iowa.
I went to high school in Jefferson City, Missouri.
I went to college at Western Washington University.
My job has me working on websites and managing client accounts.

I live in Eugene, soon Corvallis

I have no pets myself, but my girlyfriend has two bunnies that eat everything w/ in 2 feet of the floor

I was born in San Diego, but have lived in Oregon since I was 5

I'm attending OSU, will have my degree after next year

I am 23

I was able to dunk my freshman year of college (not bad for a 6'1" white guy), ah those were the days

The Blazers are the only team not from San Diego that I favor, and was pretty psyched to see that Dave was also a Chargers fan!

I can buy over a $150 of gorceries (mostly bulk food) from winco and keep a mental count that is within $.05 of the real total price...not exactly a trick that makes you the life of the party

I'm 33.
I've been in the Army for almost 16 years.
I live in Islamabad, Pakistan.
I'm moving to Zagreb, Croatia in June.
I graduated from Benson.
I speak Russian, Serbo-Croatian, German and a bit of French.
If I told you that I suck at basketball, it would leave with the impression that I have more talent than I actually do.
I also love baseball.
I once got Jerome Kersey's autgraph on the back of a Bigfoot poster while at a monster truck rally at the Coliseum.

I'm 38, on April 1st. (not a joke)
I'm actually a 'Roy'.
Married, amazing wife, 2 kids.
One is a sweet, month-old son named Landon (yes, rhymed it w/ Brandon on purpose); pic coming soon in his Blazer 'onesie'.
I've been an Oregonian for 12 years.
I work for Fred Meyer tech support.
I have a pic of me & Henry Winkler ('Fonzie' from Happy Days)from when I was 6 in my cubicle.
I play basketball alright, but live vicariously through the Blazers. = )
I have a gold-capped tooth in the back of my mouth that says 'FUNK'(cool dentist).
I play drums in 2 cover bands as my fun side-job.
No Blazer encounters (yet).
That's pretty much it...Go Blazers!

Portland raised

24 yrs old

5'9'', 170

zero athletic ability

nerdy grad student

"cultured older women" Mr. inHawaii spoke of, meaning you don't need to know my age. Blazer fan since the beginning but I've seen more games this year than in all the rest of the years of my fandomhood put together. Been listening for many years when within range of radio signals. Current job is doing things with wafers, not Von Wafer, to support myself.

28 years old

6'3 190lbs

I am a "Buffet of Goodness" goodness meaning Oregon,
I was born in Pendleton,
I grew up in the Greater Oregon League:Ontario/Nyssa
I went to college in Klamath Falls-OIT
I lived 2 years in Eugene
I now residing in Portland
I am 75% Oregonian/25% Idahoan (hey I'm from Eastern Oregon, but spent some summers in Idaho)

I ran track in college 200m/400m
I have 2 half season tickets, lower bowl
I hate the J*zz more than the L*kers (SLC is a hole that I wasted an entire year of my life in, at least the weather is nice in LA)

I am one of the few Porlanders who know how to drive in the snow (Eastern Oregon roots)

but I voted with my heart: People.

I gonna kill my signature but here I go (alea jacta est). I will use the foreigner exception, so I´ll explain a litle more than usual.

I´m born and live in Santander, 200.000 hab., a Northern town of Spain with a beautiful bay and many beaches.
I have to cats, called Berta and Gilda. I had a turtle called Petra, but it grew too much and now is in a zoo.
I was in the Army for a year. 25 years ago Spanish Army still used an old system to have officers in reserve, giving some preparation to people selected between university students, who were interested because they could do that during summers, instead of losing a whole year doing the normal military service. I became provisional second lieutenant. But I would be a disaster (la casa de te...) in a war. In Spanish Civil war there was a saying: "Alférez provisional, cadáver efectivo" (provisional second lieutenant, definitely dead).
I was born in 1962.
I played baseball from 14 to 17 and I figure I play basketball since 39.
I did all my studies before university with the catholic "Hermanos de la Salle".
My wife is a beautiful girl with wonderful green eyes and black hair. She works for civil service. And we have two children (11-13), good boys and students. I´m a very lucky man.
I have two children
I have never been able to get drunk, because my liver reacts before and I must stop drinking.
I knew Tom is Cool Hand Luke  

And I´m well known between my friends as "the man with a theory". I have my own theories about you can´t imagine how many subjects.

I picked the banter but I wanted to select the people too. There are too many posters here who entertain me, enlighten me, or both; and if I tried to name them I'd fall woefully short, so suffice it to say that BE is a nice refuge of calm Blazers talk amid the usual frenetic Internet nonsense. And though only one of you will become my colleague, all of you are now my friends.

I was born and raised in Portland and graduated from Jesuit High School. My first love was basketball, but we had five D-I players on our team my senior year; as I am not any good at basketball, this understandably limited my chances at making the team. I ran the 400m and 800m in track instead.

I live nine months of the year in Boston studying at Tufts.

I'm currently in Malaga, Spain, helping Amlmart raise a Spanish Army to take over BE and learning Spanish in my free time.

The black guys I played basketball with at Tufts called me Tony Parker because we have quickness and landing smoking-hot Latinas in common. Actually only one of those things is true.

I have a borderline compulsion about proper grammar. I frequently have to check myself from correcting someone's subject-verb agreement as this is a Blazers website and not a grammar workshop, and I usually don't read posts with lots of grammar and spelling errors as I believe it reflects sloppy and disorganized thinking.

I wish I had interesting abilities, but I don't.

I too spend way way WAY to much time on this site.  Its pretty much every morning before i go to work, and then when i get home. Then before i eat dinner... then after i've eaten... Then all the time in between then and falling asleep...  

My wife makes fun of me for it. But i'm still here.  

I'm 6'4" 24, and love to play basketball.  For some reason being the same age as most of our players makes me like them more. I was born in and have lived in Southwest Washington my entire life and have always been a Blazers fan.  Really didn't realize how much of a fan i was untill I saw Nate driving up I-5 and I had to slow down and speed up to go by him like 5 times just to make sure.  It was totally him, and he clearly did not like me staring at him like some obsessed blazer fan.  His BMW is much faster than my Jeep.  

Two of my initials are JT. I like Oregon Duck football and basketball, and 22 was my number last year. I was once the honarary captain at a Blazer's game and I go to shake Shaqs hand. I cant dunk yet but am getting there. I can play several songs by flicking my cheeks with my pointer fingers.

I live in both Portland and Seattle
My dog (a yelllow lab) passed away about 4 years ago.  I figure I'll eventually get another.
I was in the navy for four years, most of them on the U.S.S. Dace (SSN607).
I grew up in Maryland
I went to high-school in Washington DC (to a Catholic boys ROTC school that's now co-ed with ROTC optional).
I graduated from University of Maryland (BA Hist).
I have a couple of graduate degrees (Environmental Science & Engineering and Mangement of Science & Technology) from OGI
My wife is a massage therapist and is originally from from Korea.  (What I think is funny as hell is the fact she doesn't particularly like Koreans.)  
I have never been able to dunk - on the 8 foot baskets.  (Although I've had some unbelievably vivid and realistic dreams where I've done so.  It's a great feeling.)
I read a couple of books a month and generally have three or more going at any one time.
Next month will be the 20th anniversity of my coming to the PNW.  (My dad was out here during the war and then in the 70's when he helped with the construction of Trojan.  He always told my brothers and I that if any of us ever made it to the Northwest, we'd never want to leave.  Guess I'm stuck here as I can't make a liar of my dad.)

I come for the hoops insight and the humor.

About me:

I was born and raised in Eugene.
I now live in San Diego. When I went home for Christmas, I was shocked to see that posters of Clyde Drexler, Terry Porter, and Michael Jordan(?!) still hang on the walls of my bedroom at my dad's house (separated parents, two bedrooms).  
I played football in college.
I coached high school basketball for three years, which is one of the most enjoyable things I have ever done.
I am now working on a PhD in political science, a degree that has very little do with politics and a lot to do with statistics. For example, I don't really understand the U.S. primary system and have no idea how to run congressional campaign, but I know quite a bit about instrumental variables, Markov chains, autocorrelation and conditional probability, among other things.  

-I'm 35
-I have lived in Portland since 2000
-I was raised in Missouri & Kansas (Jayhawk alum; Go Raef!)
-I am an architect
-Recently married
-Past decent athlete (swimmer for 12 years, then middle linebacker/center in H.S.) - drinking, diet, and smoking all led to my athletic decline (currently attempting to fix 2 of those)
-B-ball?  Past decent pick-up game guy.  Not a great shooter, but could clear the glass with my incessant shoving.  Last pick up game I severely rolled my ankle.  My wife told me I was too old to play basketball with 20 year olds...I have not played since.  

I come for the discussions and info, I barely read any other sources anymore, no need!

I'm 27
Married with a daughter on the way (to be born in 2 months!!!)
We have a labrador and chihuahua
I work for AT&T
Born and raised to root for the Blazers
Play in a band called Mark Twain Indians (hence the name)
Skateboarder all of junior and high school, no organized sports
Love to play basketball, but given I'm 5-6 with no decent shot, I'm better off on Xbox 360!

I came to get Blazer news/insight & found a bunch of funny people.

Tweener is my handle because I can play all 5 positions in rec. basketball, but I'm not really good at any of them.  6'2" & I can sort of dunk.

I have a lovely wife and 3 kids the oldest is 4.
I'm 28.
Real Estate Broker/Investor in Salem.
I have a picture from 5th grade of me on Terry Porter's knee at a basketball camp.

• 6'0", 157 lbs.  Only thing I've ever been able to dunk are donuts and haven't done that for many years 'cuz they are oh so unhealthy.

• old .. retired at 55,  8 years ago

• 36 year career in IBM mainframe computers beginning in 1963 (vacuume tube computers and punch cards then).  

• spend too much time on BE after arising in morning before running.  Working on minimizing that time.

• big Blazer fan since their inception, rooting as hard for them during the Jail Blazer years as I do right now (not a bandwagon fan).

• live in Wash. near Astoria, Or.

• no pets, somewhat allergic to cats and a dog would scare the elk away

• 5 kids all living in the Willamette Valley.

• had a great life living up here in in the woods until my wife died last June.  Now these 59 acres are meaningless, empty and too much work so I'll be selling.

• Blazers keep me going

I live in Hawaii
I have a dog named Carlos, a cat named Kenny, and an 18 gallon fish-tank... me, too!
I was in the navy for six years, over four of them on the U.S.S. California... OMG, same here!
I went to grade-school in Vancouver, Washington... yes.
I went to junior-high in Oakridge, Oregon... yes.
I went to high-school in Grand Bay, Alabama... yes!
I am 35... born in '73, alright.
My wife is from Carlton, Oregon, we met in Eugene, and she is a sugar momma... this is getting wierd.
Alma mater: Northwest Christian College... no way.
I have never been able to dunk... nor I.
I can eat 50 eggs... oh, I can only eat 49.

What was that one movie called, with the stalker roommate chick? Single White Female?

Married White Male.

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because I basicly live like a late 80's rap video - not NWA, think 2 Live Crew.
Big house in South Florida,
pool,
lottas ladies around,
addicted to Cristal, Hooked on Dom
Blazers on a TV as big as that one in the Rose Garden every night (big shout out to Comcast!!!)

and then fatty comes over and we have one of his famous "Rick Adelman Theme Parties" - holy smokes Tom, the females go wild for that business.

Just Livin' The Dream...

Age: 28

Born in Portland, raised in Portland

College at George Fox University in Newberg

Now living in Beaverton

Went to Sportscaster Camps of America in Long Beach, CA in 1999, where such luminaries as Brian Wheeler and Tom "The Professor" Hewitt taught us young aspiring broadcasters

Won one of those Brandon Roy autographed basketballs from Taco Bell last year

Interned at 1080 The Fan in the summer of 1997

Duck Fan

I'm 41 years old today.
I am a Vancouver Washington native and still live nearby.
I graduated from Gresham HS.
I played 3 sports: Soccer, Football and Basketball until I blew out both knees.
I didn't play much basketball except at the end of games to make free-throws. I once made 119 in a row.
I watched the '77 championship on TV when I was 10.
I spent 4 years in the Air Force as a jet mechanic.
I once flew in the backseat of a F-16B fighter.
My alma matter is Warner Pacific.
I work for a microchip company in Quality Assurance. If you have an iPod, cell phone, or GPS you probably have one of our chips.
No family except for Blazers Edge.

I also like BE because it reminds me that people can convince themselves to be happy or sad about anything. All we have to do is say to ourselves, "I want X to happen." If it happens, we are happy or content. If it doesn't, we can be upset. It's amazing. Of course, we don't usually notice when we decide to think "X should happen,"  (Aldridge should drive to the basket more; Sergio should play more, etc), but it still has a powerful effect on our emotions. If I can be happy because the Blazers win a basketball game, I can be happy about almost anything.

I'm 31 and female
Travis is my favorite player
I am a physical therapist
Born in S. Carolina, raised in Tillamook
LOVE Cheese and corn dogs
Have one dog, Porter (after Blacke Butte the beer)
and one cat, Lucy Rally.
I would love to play basketball for exercise, but it's hard to find other people in Beaverton who suck like me and are ok playing with a girl. 24 fitness is not the place for me.

I am 31,
born and raised in Gresham
Met my wife at MHCC,
Graduated from Concordia in 2006
Attending Seminary in Ft. Wayne, In.
2 kids, daughter who is 2 years, and a son who is 2 months.

Been a Blazer fan since my Grandpa tuned me into them, although in the later years, with Rider and Wallace. the team really turned him off. Unfortunately, he died a few years before we turned it around with our current team. He would have been proud to root for these Blazers again.

I live in a hollowed out tree in the coastal rain forest (or so I wish). I am a recluse. My only human contact is through the Internet, because of its non-personal nature.

I am 60 years of age. I ride a bicycle. I fear Big Foot (only `cause I've smelled `im).

I have forgotten the other questions, if there were more.

Oh yah, My favorite song (and writer(s), Composer(s), Singer(s)) is "A Day in The Life", by The Beat Boys. Was that a question?

I almost lost my way back to here. I haven't read a thing in this Diary. I'll get back to ya, if I remember or it seems relevant in some way. TaTa for now or as Alfredo would say Sayonara.

female
NE Portland

I'm 5'10" so you might think I'd be good at basketball, but you would be wrong.  I played softball in high school and college, though. I threw a mean curve.

I was born in Kentucky and met the Louisville Cardinal at a basketball game when I was 7. Still have a Cardinal magnet on my fridge, although I couldn't name a current Louisville player.

Went to my first Blazer game November 2006 when the school I worked for had a fundraiser.  I dragged my dad along with me- he didn't want to go. It was a win against the Lakers and we were sucked into the Blazers' vortex.  Now we have season tickets.  How did that happen?