Steno books

Working as a health coach, I take notes all day, every day. Notes notes notes notes.... I make quick, shorthand notes while on the phone with participants (pt's).  These are in regards to their "ch" (cholesterol), "bp" (blood pressure), "wt" (weight), and well, you get the idea.  During training I quickly learned which writing pad I preferred - we'd been given about four different kinds.  And now, working as apartment manager as well, I find I'm taking notes pretty much all day long, every day, and the steno books have taken over my apartment.  Tonight, I walked around and just shot pictures wherever I found them....

About those books and burritos...

I wrote that post about Supporting Local Economy a few days back and have continually been following the Portland hype over it. The actual Dude is from San Francisco, but his mom runs the store here in Portland, if you'll recall. 

 

Since then I've been amazed at the response by the internet community to his Twitter cries and blog post .  

I orignally commented on his blog saying, I would go buy books, and although, I love burritos - and Cha Cha Cha more than any other burrito joint around - that I was really just in it for the books. Since then I've started to wonder if maybe there's another way to make something awesome of this. There's a lot of hungry people in Portland, and they aren't the ones who can afford to spend $50 at the bookstore. (I only spent $31 the other day and felt kind of strapped...) But if I do spend another $20 before xmas (if Dude allows folks to combine receipts), then I will go collect my burrito, but I'm going to walk right out on the street and give it to the first person who asks me for money.  Lets just hope they don't throw it back at me, completely annoyed, because that would really ruin my idealistic vision of how this would go all go down. 

Support Local Economy

I just caught this story on Twitter and wanted to share with friends and family in the vacinity. Broadway Books in NE has been in business for 20+ years and is an awesome local bookstore.  Regardless of the super amazing burritos, this son is doing an incredible thing with the internets to help his mom out from 1000 miles away. He's supporting Portland local businesses and family. Maybe you could do the same. Read full story.