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Today I found this video of Jerry Garcia of Grateful Dead on "You Tube". In our wedding, we walked back down the aisle to the tune of "Not Fade Away", by 'The Grateful Dead'. To prepare for that, we bought 3 different CDs containing different versions. (They never did the same song the same way.) Then ripped them to my computer, and used a free shareware program called 'WavePad" by NCH Swift Sound Software, a mp3 editing program to extract out the parts of the songs we liked and pasted our version back together. Not everyone got who they were or what the song really was, but I think some who did get it, maybe understood us.
"I'm gonna tell you how its gonna be, your gonna give your love to me......"

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Near OMSI, along the Willamette River, the conveyor system has been finished. I have been watching them build it. It will be used to haul the dirt from the tunnel over the fence, and the Springwater Corridor, and will dump the dredgings on a barge. What tunnel? The Eastside Combined Sewer Overflow project. 6 mile tunnel, 22 feet wide, 150 feet deep. From OMSI area to Swan Island. Cool tunnel to be in if you liked that sort of thing, except for.....well, the sewer part.

January 20, and most all the snow has melted, and the sun has come out. Still in the low 40's but a great day for a bike ride. The geese are still here as we go through the wetlands in the industrial park. I thought they would have gone south for the winter?

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Each day, on the way to work, I pass by this rail siding. Sitting quiet and motionless for years are four rail cars from the "Empire Builder" line.
These cars look to have been used in the late 1950's, though I have not confirmed that. When I see them I think of the places they have been,
and the stories that they have been a part of. And wonder, what is next for them.....
From Wikipedia, I have included this entry on the Empire Builder : "The Empire Builder is a passenger train route operated by Amtrak in the Midwestern and Northwestern United States. Before Amtrak, the Empire Builder was operated by the Great Northern Railway. The train was Great Northern's flagship train. The route runs from Chicago, Illinois toward the Pacific Ocean."

Empire Builder Passenger Car	Empire Builder "Ice Lake" Car	Empire Builder Engine

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