Where’s the peanut butter?!

All of the Portland marathon finishers are given a Douglas Fir sapling.  I need somewhere to plant it. Some possibilities…

• Cowen Park or Ravenna Park - near my house, frequent site on our Saturday long runs, and has ample space for a Douglas Fir sized tree.  Also - no one would probably know…
• Along Ravenna Boulevard - a bunch of the trees have fallen in recent years and the city’s been slow to put them back. I’m hesitant because I know this isn’t the right kind of tree to grow there and even if it were, it would probably get trampled by runners or someone else on the median.
• Some corporate space - this is tempting because the grounds tend to be well-maintained, but that also opens the good chance it will be removed before getting established.

Or maybe I could use find another public space?  Or get together with some of the other runners and we could plant them together?  Hmm - so where should it go?

Somehow I’ve set two things in my emacs environment that are driving me batty.

• RoR mode jump to end of buffer on file access. I’m working on some rails file, check my changes in the browser (refresh), and when my file is accessed, emacs jumps to the end of the active buffer and sets the mark. Ugh.
• shell mode focus weirdness. I type a command in my shell (cmd or the cygwin hosted shell) and the point is left at the echoed command immediately following the prompt line on which the command was issued (at the top of the command output), rather than following to the end of the buffer.

This is almost as frustrating as when I started working in emacs and didn’t understand modes or the keymap and could never predict what a key combination would do or how a mode would behave.

I don’t like where this is headed!