In early August, Nicole and I took Scarlett to the annual county fair. It's here in town, which is greatly convenient. It's a somewhat small affair (Yamhill county isn't huge) but it's really nice to see what our neighbors are up to as well as get a sense of the kinds of responsibilities our local farms are up to. Scarlett had opportunities to get ( Read more... )

March 13th marked one entire year of working remotely at my job. It's been a whole year since I've seen my coworkers in person. A whole year since I had to make that work commute. It's been a whole year of this strange pandemic world we're living in. Going back and reading my journal entry from back then when there was so many unknowns and so much ( Read more... )

It's been a busy couple weeks! The 16th was my one year anniversary with Nicole, and it was a quiet affair. We traded cards and flowers and had a great meal out at a swanky restaurant I've always wanted to go to but never could get seats. Every day around here seems to be more fun with her around and there's always something new to joke and laugh ( Read more... )

I keep buying these animation cels off the Internet. For the first time, however, I've landed a production cel from something other than Tiny Toons. I give you the Goddess First Class Belldandy:


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I had my very last scheduled physical therapy session earlier this week. Basically, it was all review. After six straight weeks of going in every Monday and working one set of muscles for hours, I can truly say that it's really helped out with the pain I've complained about in my side for a full year now. The stretching and focused workouts have ( Read more... )

The shutdown ended last week and it was back to the old grind at work. For the last month or so, I've been training on a few machines that are fairly easy. I certified at the end of the work week last week and now I'm completely caught up with one of my counterpart coworkers who has all the same "certs" as me. The only difference between us is that ( Read more... )

The two-week shutdown my workplace has imposed upon us is already nearly over. It's already Friday of the second week and I'll be due back into work Wednesday night. I was hoping to get so much stuff done, but in reality, I haven't really accomplished much of anything. I tried to switch to being awake during the day, but that only worked for one ( Read more... )

Earlier this week I had an appointment with the doctor who performed my dual colonoscopy & endoscopy two weeks ago. In these two weeks, I've come to grips and moved beyond the initial disappointment of the procedure not initially finding anything of note. I've since realized that no doctor would be useful or good at their job if they could ( Read more... )

Easter morning, while I was at work pushing wafers around the fab and fixing IT problems, it dawned on me that I was in what some people call a bunny suit. The fab suits we wear from head to toe is kind of a nylon fabric of some kind and mostly traps particles in the air and on our clothes from getting onto the product. It was kind of funny to go ( Read more... )

Another two weeks have gone by between entries! Am I too busy to write? No. Truthfully it's a combination of laziness and lack of a interesting stuff goin' on. The last couple work weeks have been good. Daylight savings was crazy though. When the clocks shifted, a lot of the fab machines got stupid and stopped talking to the computers. It's one of ( Read more... )