Just an open invitation (not that an invitation is needed ) to those who stumble upon the blog - to drop by the #gayportland IRC channel and say “hi.”  The channel website is [1] http://gayportland.info/ , and newbies to IRC (internet relay chat) can simply scroll down on the first page and hit the ”CHAT” button for easy access thru the EFnet web portal.  The non-newbies know what to do :) 

 See ya on IRC!