Dear Matthew McGuire;

I don't know you but your grandma & grandpa seem to think you live at my house.... Maybe you did live here and didn't let your relatives know you moved? Any ways, They sent you a lovely Christmas card that was already ripped open when I retrieved it from my mail box. Strangely enough there was one bill inside sticking out, so I'll assume the mailman ripped it open shoving it into my mailbox. Normally I would write "Does not live here" and stick it back in the box but I'm trying this new thing this year where I'm nice to people & do good deeds. Any ways, if you are Matthew McGuire (or you know him) please let him know that I have his Christmas card from Grandma & Grandpa. I'll be happy to return it if you can provide for me your grandparents name and where they live with some sort of ID.

One of the things I would like to do early in 2010 is move my account to a local credit union. I am turning to you, The Damned, for recommendations for great credit unions.

I live in Multnomah County and am currently enrolled at PSU, so I know I'm able to join Unitas, First Tech, OnPoint. Any others I should consider?

The most important thing I'm looking for online bill pay that is reliable and easy to use. At present, I write checks by hand about twice a year, and I'd like to keep it that way.

So, any suggestions? Do any of you DPers do your banking at a credit union you just love? Thanks in advance.

Hello Portland.

Happy blue moon!

I know I'm pretty late in the game, that this topic may have been exhausted. I've
been put in charge of finding something to do tonight. I'm newish to town and unaware. Ok experts, any affordable SE Portland New Years experiences that you can recommend? The less absurdly large the better. I just want to be in a dress somewhere awesome, drinking drinks with pals and good folks.

Thank you, have a safe night!

With Obama's and the Democrats attack on "the rich", once they get fed up and leave, who's going to pay for all the social benefits?

www.thedailycrux.com/content/3247/Government_Stupidity

(just read this on the wweek website and thought i would put it here for you all)

As you gear up for New Year’s Eve, a helpful reminder to our reminder from last week: All rides on TriMet’s MAX and buses will be free beginning at 8 pm on Thursday, Dec. 31. The MAX Blue, Green and Yellow lines will also provide extra late-night service on New Year’s Eve, running every 30 minutes until about 3 am.

When I first plays Left 4 Dead, I fell in love. It was just about everything I had ever hoped for in a FPS. I got pretty good, though usually didn't fare too well on Advanced, and could never beat a campaign on expert, but overall, I wasn't terrible. I always did awesome on Normal.

When Left 4 Dead 2 was announced, I was excited (though disappointed that they didn't just put up DLC for L4D1). When the demo was released, my BF and I played it and thought, "this is gonna be awesome!" Oh how wrong we were...

( I can't suck this much )

Ideas people? What's going on? Anything fun and weird?

I'm so over hanging out at busy bars with drunks and paying a covercharge to spend hours trying to get my overpriced, watery drinks. Not cool..

Come on Portland.. you gotta have something cool happening.

Anyone have oil heat?  Who do you use to refill your tank and/or service your furnace?

We just moved into a house with oil heat, and despite the fact that the gauge on the tank appears to be between 1/8 and 1/4, it's not kicking on.  I've never had oil heat before so I'm not sure if the gauge is just off or if it's common knowledge to refill before it gets that low...or if the furnace is just on strike.  Anyway, any recommendations/companies to avoid would be much appreciated!  We'd like to have heat to ring in the new year.

(And yes, I already googled; just looking for personal recs.)

I need to know where in PDX or Vancouver I can find fruit flavored candy canes. You know like blue raspberry and such.

Anybody seeing them still? Please tell me I'm not too late!

So myself and someone else in my house use prescription drugs that get administered through IM injection. However, one of our pharmacists, out of who knows what logic, refuses to dispense needles along with the injectable medicine. We are running out of needles. Where the hell can we get more?