The good news I was hoping to have this month about my job didn't materialize in June. There was one job posting but it was for a project management position that I'm not terribly interested in but with the manager guy on PTO, I can't ask for details. I'll learn more in July but it sucks. I was really hoping for something to get me out of my ( Read more... )

Welcome Scarlett Jane Rose
Born Sunday, March 19th, at 2:45am weighing 6lbs 11ozIt happened! My daughter is here! A new little rabbit and her name is Scarlett. As we had hoped, she was exactly one week late, coming into the world at exactly 41 weeks and affording her parents an extra week to prepare. The birth event itself was fairly uneventful. On ( Read more... )

Holy cow, 2022 was an incredible year. Let's run it down:

In January, Nicole began Invisalign and we quit caffeine in preparation for trying to get pregnant after deciding to have a child in late 2021. In February, we learned that after only two months of trying, Nicole was pregnant with a son. In March, I learned that things at my job were about ( Read more... )

Well 2021 was kind of more of the same of 2020. Here's the summary:

January was our first real month in our new house where we weren't wall-to-wall renovating 24/7. In February, the weight of responsibility of the house got to us and caused despair. Things got better in March as rooms took shape including my very own home office.

April saw us ( Read more... )

My buddy from high school, Bryan, had his 40th birthday earlier this month. For his birthday, we pulled off a nostalgic gift that succeeded in taking away a bit of the sting of turning 40. My brother, Ryan, has a hobby of collecting old school Apple iBook laptops from twenty years ago and while browsing eBay a few months back he stumbled upon a ( Read more... )

October 18th marked twenty years to the day that I've been on LiveJournal. My introductory entry all those years ago is a distant memory. It's odd to go back and read that first entry and think about the people I mentioned. Of all those people mentioned in that first entry, I only still talk to maybe a couple of them. Every last thing about my life ( Read more... )

Welp I made it to 40! So this is mid-life, ehh? Forty years down; forty to go? I haven't really had any great epiphany about what all this is supposed to mean, but I'm reminded of some cliché about how age is just a number and you can feel however old you want to feel. I like that sentiment. Ten years ago when I turned 30, I said something about ( Read more... )

Earlier this month, we had a pretty serious snow and ice storm. It was worse north of here, but it was still a major event. Probably the worst snow/ice storm to hit the Portland area since the crazy 2008 two-week snowstorm event. It started with a couple days of snow that turned to freezing rain which weighed down everything. Around our newly ( Read more... )

I'm sure 2020 will go down in history as one of the strangest years in recent memory in America. For Nicole, Chip and me, it's been an interesting year. Let's recap.

In January, we began a low-carb diet which cut out fast food and junk food of all kinds. We've continued the diet ever since. February saw us take a vacation on the Oregon coast which ( Read more... )

2018 was a building year. If 2017 was the year my family began to repair and grow from the loss of my father in December of 2016, then 2018 was the year we picked up speed on our way to what should be a successful if not triumphant 2019. Let's talk about it.

In January, I bought a new laptop and we met Nicole's best friend's baby girl, Mabel. ( Read more... )