I see that Servant has already responded to this one but I will say that whereas the Ratty generation still takes 27 seconds to perform the removal, my generation was routinely clocked at 27 micro seconds for removal using either hand. But again, we had the benefit of frequent practice. Ratty would rather spend time romancing his Mac.
My Grandparents used to live in Portland and retired for a while about 25 or so minutes to the South on the Willamette (sp?)River. Nice area.