Damascus doesn't have a post office, so our mailing address was "Boring
OR".
Yup. I expect a Damascus PO soon, though.
It didn't take me long once I hit college to learn that when asked
where I was from I should answer "Boring" to the US citizens and
"Damascus" to the middle easterners. Almost always good for a double take.
hehe. I used to teach at PSU for a time as an adjunct prof for a time, but I
was actually born in Portland and lived my early life in Tigard (1800 pop., when
I moved there) and Beaverton areas (old airport, now gone) and also for a number
of years on a 19 acre filbert farm in Orchards, WA. (My dad is buried over
there.)
I've been here now for two years and am very, very pleased with the people
around here. Nice folks and very kind. I can also hardly escape a store
without us sharing our lives and events with the checker, too.
Only
exception has been a time when I sat in and listened to a judge here and she
scares the daylights out of me -- I watched what appeared to me to be a careless
and downright capricious decision making -- completely unsupportable on the
facts I listened to (and I heard the entire presentation in court.) That
worries me, should I ever find myself there. But then, that was an isolated
experience for me. But I've also watched a great many cases in Multnomah and
Washington Counties without seeing anything like it, too. So I haven't put it
into a context quite yet.
Jon
