Cathy and I are doing the first weekend of the Portland Jazz Festival via the KPLU Jazz Train this weekend. It’s kind of a birthday thing, and kind of a recoup of last year, in which I also spent my birthday weekend in Portland. We stumbled into several nice venues but found most of the shows we were interested in were already sold out. I remember walking down to Sixth Avenue from a disappointing sushi lunch, listening to my sister’s “happy birthday rap” via voicemail — a message that totally transformed the afternoon.
Participation in the “Jazz Train” thing requires signing off an a lovely bit of legalischtick nonsense entitled “STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY AND AUTHORIZATION WAIVER, RELEASE AND INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT.” It’s even more fun than it sounds like up front.
…I hereby acknowledge that I understand that participation in a KPLU travel program involves many types of risks.
The risks include personal injuries and properly loss resulting from moving from location to location and other causes. Injuries could occur depending on innumerable factors. Injury can occur as a result of the risk level of activity, transportation, walking, equipment failure, weather, acts of other participants or third parties whether or not they were negligent, lack of or improper supervision, or disease. The injuries could occur before, during or after the activity or when traveling to or from the activity. Every type of injury could occur. This may include broken bones, back or brain damage, death or dismemberment.
I always love signing documents like this — it makes me feel like I’m living dangerously, on the edge, taking my life into my own hands. Just call me “Kevin Dangerously.”
