04-29-23

 

Tanuia and I took in the art museum and a southern cooking restuarant in downtown Portland today.

04-28-23

 

Our first attempt at productive remote work from an airbnb.  Productive except for the coffee break, lunch break, and patisterrie break, that is.

04-27-23

 

Rushing to wrap up work to get on the road and sit in traffic.  Reminder of why we don't do more weekend getaways.  On the bright side, the mountain was out.

04-25-23

 

Same spot as last week, except now the red tulips are also in bloom.  Warmer commute today.

04-24-23

 

El Barracho for dinner tonight after a long walk in nice weather.  Monday routines!

04-22-23

 

They are past their prime, but finally made it to see the cherry blossoms on campus.

04-21-23

 

After a REALLY long week it was really nice to get together with Joan for dinner and cocktails.

04-19-23

 Spent the evening with Bernd and Jamie, two co-workers.  It's fun to share our view.

04-18-23

 

It was fun to see so many daffodils in bloom on my morning commute.

04-17-23

 

MAVen book club tonight.  A nice discussion, a nice meal, a nice walk, then meeting up with the guys to disperse.

04-16-23

 

Dream Teaming at church today.  Good morning, nice to see you!

04-15-23

 

Coffee at Edgewater hotel this morning for a change of scenary.

04-14-23

 

Bruce's staff appreciation party had a theme of dressing as a famous person or famous character.  We went as Doc Brown and Marty McFly from Back to the Future.  Shout out to Xnader for finding me a lightweight skateboard to borrow!

04-13-23

 

Another everyday life photo.  Coming back from the banana stand, and here's home!

04-12-23

 

We walked through Belltown this evening and spent some extra time admiring the new mural at the dog park.

04-11-23

 

It's Tuesday, off the office I go.  A slight detour, though, becuase my commute route is all torn up.

04-10-23

 

I've been walking to the banana stand rather than the doggy daycare lately for my morning walk.  Partly because I like the banana in my breakfast fruit bowl, and partly because I don't have enough energy to do the longer walk.  I enjoyed this viewpoint of Dopplers colorful wings with the Metro bus in the foreground.

This is everyday life.

04-09-23

 

Happy Easter!  Vanessa made this gorgeous arrangement for church.  He is Risen!

04-08-23

 

Our brunch venue was tasty but not what I think of as a brunch experience, but it is always fun hanging out with this gang.

04-07-23

 

Today was the day that Xander pushed SOS messages to us all day, just to mix things up a little.  Glad he's safe.

04-06-23

 

Been walking over to Amazon campus to get my banana from the banana stand.  Today was a bit wet.

04-05-23

 

My headset is new, but today it stopped working.  It seems to not be getting a charge.  We take our tools for granted until they fail us, and this one is a pretty big fail when I am on conference calls all day.

04-04-23

 

A&J gave me this little egg for my birthday.  Part fidget spinner part medical benefits.  It's been fun to hold during my meetings.

04-03-23

 

It's evenings like these where I really love where I live.  We take it for granted, but it still takes our breath away.

04-02-23

 

Field trip to a local abandoned building today.

Transproted us to the past when we visited Orfeo restuarant monthly to discuss real estate and munch on pizza.

Also transported us to a potential future as we contemplate a very different use for the space moving forward.

04-01-23

Bruce was hoping we would hear "April Fools, it is too cold to be outside this morning", but Serve Day went on and we fought through the wind and sought out cigarette butts, trash, and other oddities that didn't belong on the pavement and in the Bell Street Park flowerbeds.