Wow… it’s almost June!

Life is going by way too fast.  I knew May was just a blur but I can’t believe I haven’t posted anything since February…?  Wow.  The month of May was a blur because I’ve had 2 days off from work in the last 5 weeks, since getting back to ABQ for Portland.  Sure, there’s been a couple of days where I didn’t actually go to work physically, but I count phone conferences, emails, pages, and phone calls as days at work.  And those were my weekends.   Ugh..   😦 

Christmas… Yes, I know it’s February

Basically since the start of the year, I’ve been on call at work.  That means I get pages to respond to equipment issues 24 hrs a day Monday – Friday, and as of 2 weeks ago, about half of my weekends will be on call too.   In fact, 2 weeks ago I got the “opportunity” to, on a Saturday night, work on some equipment from about 9pm until about 1:30am.  What does that have to do with Christmas and the fact that it’s mid-February?  Pretty simple, life is too busy & moving too quickly these days….   😦

In any event, here’s the reader’s digest version of what we’ve been up to for the last 2 months: 

1) Christmas!- Bailey got a rubber ducky yellow rain jacket for Christmas from one of his grandparents that ironically enough matches his dad’s yellow Marmot rain jacket.

  

2) Happy Newyears! While his parents had a great time celebrating New Years eve at Oba (Pearl district restaurant that I’d highly recommend) with some good friends, Bailey didn’t seem as excited to wear the beads and “2008” glasses as his dad was just hours earlier. 

 

3) Showshoeing is fun. Mt. Hood has got a ton of snow this year. As I write this, they have a ~ 180″ base (that’s 15ft!). Kara got us some snowshoes for Christmas and we went new years day. Can you say POWDER?! We were able to go anywhere we wanted in the woods eventhough there was that much snow.

  

4) Portland International Auto Show. We went a couple weekends ago with some friends. There were definitely some nice rides there. Even some that I hadn’t heard of before, such as this Dutch Spyker. Yes, Kara, there are some cars that I don’t know about (though they’re available in limited quantities)!

Me as a Simpson Character

Kara uploaded a picture of me into this website: http://simpsonizeme.com, and here’s what it came up with…  (Kara added a dog, which I presume to be Bailey after the fact).  🙂

                           

The Santa Fe Opera!!

To get a little more cultured, Kara and I went to the Santa Fe Opera last Friday night.  It’s been on our to-do-list for a long time since it’s a well known Opera venue and the tickets sell out each year.   We didn’t get any good pictures since you’re not supposed to have cameras inside, so here’s one of the only shots we got of the sky.

Back at Work…

Got up yesterday and headed back to work after a nice & relaxing 8 week sabbatical.   Fortunately, my peers kept the time honored tradition of messing with your cubicle before you get back alive….  Nice work with the 50+ balloons & plastic wrap around everything in my cube guys!!!

 

My first Blog post

Ah, my first Blog post ever.   I had a little website back in the good old days of AOL in the late 90’s, but apparently everyone is Blogging now so I’m going to give it a try and see if I can post enough to make things interesting.