The Portland autoshow is this weekend. This will be the second year in a row that we've attended the event. William (and I'm going to assume Matthew) get a kick out of sitting in the cars and turning the steering wheel. Most cars are pretty fast to get into... there's nobody in them. Some, however, have a line waiting to get in. The new Corvette and a new Porsche 911 both had a line to sit in... W,M, and I toughed it out to sit in both. I'll take 'em!


Does any other city have a preoccupation with the airport call letters like Portland does? I catch myself doing it all the time.... "PDX" this and "PDX" that. Intel uses PDX all over the place to represent the Oregon campus. TV stations out here are named after it as well. So I was curious... why the "X" in PDX? It turns out... nothing! The X is a filler letter. Portland should have been abbreviated "PD" but the designation was for three letters, so they added an "X". You'll notice this on "LAX" as well. Something to think about... maybe someone else knows another ??X airport.