{"id":1492,"date":"2013-04-28T02:19:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T02:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2014-01-27T00:42:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T00:42:25","slug":"april-24-27-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/?p=1492","title":{"rendered":"April 24 &#8211; 27, 2013 Eugene Saturday Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John and I have been looking into securing our computer activities when connected to public networks.\u00a0 Securing public connections would cut down on our costs as there are many free WiFi spots available along our travel path.\u00a0 While searching for programs, I had to concentrate as the lingo can be somewhat of a mystery.\u00a0 Browser\u2026that one I know.\u00a0 But running the browser in a sandbox in the cloud\u2026well, that was a little awkward to wrap my head around. \u00a0We now have Hotspot Shield so our files are being encrypted like a firewall. \u00a0\u00a0Yep, I can follow that.<\/p>\n<p>Another daybreak peeking through wispy clouds turning a cool night into a pleasant day for outdoor explorations. \u00a0\u00a0Not happening the first part of the day as John and I have RV repair paperwork to complete.\u00a0 We will sit inside tapping away on computers making lists, compiling information and totals of our living costs for the last 6 week through most of the day. \u00a0\u00a0It is near the end of the week and a trip to the RV revealed that several finishing parts ordered last week have not arrived.\u00a0 Somehow I knew it would be delayed.\u00a0 Our snail\u2019s pace service supervisor keeps complaining about how overworked he is, obviously forgetting that we are paying for this service\u2026his slow progress is resulting in our lives being postponed for almost six weeks!\u00a0 Not an impressive response from him considering, at our age, time is a precious commodity.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting with an angry horse fly throughout our overly fatty steak dinner at a local country club restaurant ended our evening.\u00a0 A disappointing replacement for the Woodlands Country Club dining experience.\u00a0 Back to the Inn for our nightly dark chocolate square and a good night walk with KatieBug.<\/p>\n<p>The Inn is full this morning.\u00a0 Crowds from the major race, foot not bike, are settling in for Sunday\u2019s race. \u00a0\u00a0I wrote to my Bestie and told her we had a big foot race coming through our area Sunday morning.\u00a0 She wrote back and asked how Eugene was able to get Big Foot to race and how many were scheduled to show up.\u00a0 Oops\u2026must remember not to write emails in the wee hours of the morning.\u00a0 Perhaps reading them the next day before pressing \u201csend\u201d would help. \u00a0\u00a0Along with the race crowd, a Ducks Spring football\u00a0game was being played and the stadium is right behind our Inn.\u00a0 Makes for really crowded streets.\u00a0 Those orange cones are directing the overflowing amount of Subaru\u2019s into a compressed one lane, down from three. \u00a0\u00a0A real pain in the rear getting around town but oh what a fabulous people watching opportunity.\u00a0\u00a0Duck supporters are wildly devoted and dress up to the\u00a0extreme.<\/p>\n<p>Back at the Inn there are teens everywhere&#8230;sunning themselves in the park, on the parking lot blacktop and, after hours, dashing up and down the halls of the Inn.\u00a0 For the first time since our arrival, the pool is at max capacity and the halls are full of chatty female activity.<\/p>\n<p>Outside our window the trees have gone from bare branches to a full green explosion.\u00a0 We have been here so long, the cleaning people and maintenance man know us and the front desk lady, Shirley, knows us by our first names.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/?attachment_id=1499\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1499\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Percussion\" src=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Percussion-150x112.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/?attachment_id=1495\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1495\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Beating of the drums\" src=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Beating-of-the-drums-150x112.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/?attachment_id=1497\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1497\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Half time percussion\" src=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Half-time-percussion-150x112.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/?attachment_id=1498\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1498\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paraphernalia\" src=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Paraphernalia-150x112.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/?attachment_id=1501\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1501\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The paid entertainment\" src=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/The-paid-entertainment-150x112.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/?attachment_id=1494\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1494\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"All ages of hippies\" src=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/All-ages-of-hippies-150x112.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An early rising and a short trip to our regular breakfast spot, The Glenwood.\u00a0 After an extended breakfast discussing what our next travel stop will be, we headed over to Saturday Market to do a little Eugene crazy character surveillance.\u00a0 We were not disappointed. The drum corps was out in full force and there was a make-shift half time drum duo.\u00a0 We snaked our way through old hairy hippies, leather armored bikers, raggedy derelicts perched on steps, platted hair \u00a0Rastafarians and every possible type of human and canine Eugenian\u00a0imaginable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/?attachment_id=1500\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1500\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Saturday Market Characters\" src=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Saturday-Market-Characters-118x150.jpg\" width=\"118\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/?attachment_id=1496\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1496\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Even liberals have limits\" src=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Even-liberals-have-limits-150x127.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back to the Inn to relax and watch mindless TV programs before finishing off the day with a trip to VooDoo Doughnuts and a walk around town before a KatieBug potty walk and lights out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John and I have been looking into securing our computer activities when connected to public networks.\u00a0 Securing public connections would cut down on our costs as there are many free WiFi spots available along our travel path.\u00a0 While searching for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/?p=1492\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lilypad"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1502,"href":"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions\/1502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}