For those of you who read yesterday’s “famous” post, I hope you understand that I wasn’t downplaying others’ contributions to The Article. Tooting my own horn (and conversely making fun of myself) is a right I reserve on this here blog. But, let me take a moment to congratulate everyone who is making the CyanPDX a great example of the power of social media marketing (here’s lookin’ at you, Justin Kistner and Ian Johnson).

Let me state the obvious: Great article, huh? Laura Oppenheimer is an impressive note-taker and listener. I’m so happy with how she represented what Jed and I had to say. In years past I’ve been interviewed by the media, and the resulting write-ups were disheartening because my words had been bent. I’ll never forget when a paper in Anderson, South Carolina took my “female empowerment” statement and turned it into “Girl Power”. Thinking about that still makes me involuntarily roll my eyes.

Anyway, thanks, Laura. And thanks, Kiernan, for arranging the interview.

Keep an eye out for the Sunday edition of The Oregonian! Unless something crazy happens in the business world today, the front page of the Business section should feature a story about my and Jed’s soon-to-be-new abode, CyanPDX. We were interviewed for the story, so you know the article will be SO compelling. No photos of us though, which is good because I’m badly in need of root touch-up.

I won’t take up a whole lot of space with details about the building itself, the state of Portland’s housing market, or the importance of walking the eco-friendly talk. Laura Oppenheimer will do a better job of that in her article. BUT! I’ll show you what I’ve been up to in my free time since putting down a deposit on our new abode:

I used a downloaded PDF and GIMP to play with the new apartment’s floor plan. It was fun, but it wasn’t as easy as it could of been had I used Skitch. Sure, GIMP is a fantastic open source photo editing software, but what I did above wasn’t exactly heavyweight stuff. After you watch this video, you’ll see what I mean:

Sold? Maybe in the coming weeks we’ll have a Super Skitcher contest or something…