Quarterly report
Life, briefly:
Not enough hours each day, nor days per week. Welcome to summer.
Still employed. The big company I was hired by handed us off to a smaller, hipper subsidiary, that is the market leader in Virtual Machines, if you catch my drift. The guy they hired for us to report to is a pretty poor cultural fit. We'll see how it goes. Besides that, I still love my boss, am doing decent work, and am learning new things. It's challenging at times, which, my father reminded me, is what I wanted.
Two weeks ago I rode my bike from Seattle to Portland, as part of the Seattle to Portland ride. 202+ miles in 2 days. We (10 of us, friends and friends of-) rented a classroom in Centralia at the college for Saturday night. The ride was good. Sweated off my sunscreen and got a little burned on Saturday, then on Sunday had thunder and lightning, and rain on and off all day, including steady rain for the final 2+ hours (~30 miles) of riding. At the end I was wet and tired, but not dead. My dad brought a rose and a yellow jersey (polo shirt) for me. It was very sweet.
Since that ride, I now feel like it's possible to ride arbitrarily long distances: just keep eating and hydrating. Cyclotouring seems totally reasonable. Related to that, my metabolism is still kicked up to a higher level than before I started training. I'm hungry more quickly, have more muscle than before, and weigh exactly the same as I have for the past 4ish years.
Last weekend I flew to Palo Alto for 30 hours to visit my mom while she's on the west coast. Good visit, saw some other family, got mom a new 13" MacBook Pro. Also, the farmer's market produce was amazing.
Yesterday, at the request of a friend, I volunteered for The Kinky Carnival, working in the Ground booth, for folks who need some downtime due to over-excitement or overwhelm. We were right next to the kissing booth, and I was entreated to keep the kissers' lips warm on a number of occasions. Since then the phrase "lip fluffer" has been tossed about.
Out of the three raffle tickets I bought, two were winners. They let you choose your prizes from the available selection, and I selected the complementary prizes of a pile of purple hemp rope, and a 90 minute private rope lesson with Max. He said you can learn more if you bring your own rope bottom. Finding someone shouldn't be difficult.
After the carnival, I attended the birthday of my favorite 2 year old. It was delightful. There was cake.
Aside from all that, I'm still seeing The Cute Redhead (2.5 years at the end of August!), going on some dates, laying around in parks, going for walks, playing games, riding my bike, seeing friends, and eating too much ice cream. Life is pretty good.
Not enough hours each day, nor days per week. Welcome to summer.
Still employed. The big company I was hired by handed us off to a smaller, hipper subsidiary, that is the market leader in Virtual Machines, if you catch my drift. The guy they hired for us to report to is a pretty poor cultural fit. We'll see how it goes. Besides that, I still love my boss, am doing decent work, and am learning new things. It's challenging at times, which, my father reminded me, is what I wanted.
Two weeks ago I rode my bike from Seattle to Portland, as part of the Seattle to Portland ride. 202+ miles in 2 days. We (10 of us, friends and friends of-) rented a classroom in Centralia at the college for Saturday night. The ride was good. Sweated off my sunscreen and got a little burned on Saturday, then on Sunday had thunder and lightning, and rain on and off all day, including steady rain for the final 2+ hours (~30 miles) of riding. At the end I was wet and tired, but not dead. My dad brought a rose and a yellow jersey (polo shirt) for me. It was very sweet.
Since that ride, I now feel like it's possible to ride arbitrarily long distances: just keep eating and hydrating. Cyclotouring seems totally reasonable. Related to that, my metabolism is still kicked up to a higher level than before I started training. I'm hungry more quickly, have more muscle than before, and weigh exactly the same as I have for the past 4ish years.
Last weekend I flew to Palo Alto for 30 hours to visit my mom while she's on the west coast. Good visit, saw some other family, got mom a new 13" MacBook Pro. Also, the farmer's market produce was amazing.
Yesterday, at the request of a friend, I volunteered for The Kinky Carnival, working in the Ground booth, for folks who need some downtime due to over-excitement or overwhelm. We were right next to the kissing booth, and I was entreated to keep the kissers' lips warm on a number of occasions. Since then the phrase "lip fluffer" has been tossed about.
Out of the three raffle tickets I bought, two were winners. They let you choose your prizes from the available selection, and I selected the complementary prizes of a pile of purple hemp rope, and a 90 minute private rope lesson with Max. He said you can learn more if you bring your own rope bottom. Finding someone shouldn't be difficult.
After the carnival, I attended the birthday of my favorite 2 year old. It was delightful. There was cake.
Aside from all that, I'm still seeing The Cute Redhead (2.5 years at the end of August!), going on some dates, laying around in parks, going for walks, playing games, riding my bike, seeing friends, and eating too much ice cream. Life is pretty good.