I got a new puppy named Coho, named after the famous Pacific Northwest silver salmon. His name is fitting as he is a silver labrador retriever and he jumped on the river the first day I had him. He is full of energy an a love bug who…
Read MoreI lost an amazing friend, former romantic partner, and someone that cared about changing the world. The world was a better place with her in it. I can’t make sense of it all, and hurting so deeply. Brenna was a beautiful, smart, thoughtful, amazing person and someone I…
Read MoreToday is a company day off at Autodesk. Autodesk recognizes that employees can feel burned out dealing with the past 18 months juggling life, family, and work. They have been providing employees some days to recharge and refresh, or just time to take with no email since the…
Read MoreHappy Autumnal Equinox everyone! This is the first day of Fall. Last evening, I headed about 20 miles outside town (Bend Oregon) to the Cascade mountains to capture some photos of the last summer sunset. Of course this change of season also means the inverse for my friends…
Read MoreAfter weeks of extremely heavy wildfire smoke, the smoke cleared up this weekend here in Central Oregon where I live. I got out for some local bike rides on trails along the Deschutes River as well as a paddle on my paddle board. It was an amazing and…
Read MoreOne of those bizarre days, unusually hot weather, wildfire smoke filled skies, and I just joined a Zoom meeting – and found I was already in there. Is this a Black Mirror episode? Did I cross some sort of time space continuum or portal?
Read MoreI have been moving the past week to Central Oregon in Bend, luckily some friends convinced me to escape the boxes and house projects, to go paddle boarding for a half day and have some fun. I really needed that escape from moving and the fun time in…
Read MoreIf you are on my side of the equator, in the Northern hemisphere, you are no doubt in the middle of summer. And chances are if you are on the west coast of the U.S., a hot one due to a high pressure induced “heat dome”. In the…
Read MoreI was in the Walla Walla Washington region the past weekend, and went flying practice one my 97mph FPV drone over some nice open fields. In one photo taken during a flight, it looked similar to the old Windows 95 screen background image.
Read MoreThe past few days I have been moving after recently selling my home. For some strange reason animals have been drawn to my house including wild baby ducks under my deck and a baby lamb.Perhaps it was the way the neighborhood was saying “good bye” to me. On…
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