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Apr18

The beauty of Wilsonville

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April, 2024


With preparation and planning comes walks and relaxation.

It’s been tough for me to not judge myself too harshly for needing time to make plans and get everything set up. It takes time, to be sure, but I’ve found that creative work like this tends to take longer than one would expect… and that it also takes down time to make it happen. I call it “riding the waves”… when I’m energetic and focused, I get tons done. When I’m not, I take a walk or go to the gym.

It’s too easy to fall into a Youtube hole, or play video games… and while I do let myself fall down those holes every so often, it’s a major work of mine to limit those, and work to keep myself on track.

Walks definitely help – and in the Oregon Spring, those walks come part and parcel with beautiful views, pretty flower crowns left by my neighbors, and home-made chili-dogs after I got annoyed at Sonic for taking too long to take my order.

Yeah, literally. I walked to Sonic for lunch, they took 20min and didn’t take my order, so I walked to the grocery story and bought my own damn hotdogs and made my own damn lunch. With beer! For cheaper!

Slowly but surely. I’m focusing on burning down my to-do list, enjoying the time left with friends and neighbors, and making this whole thing happen.

Apr2

Spring is… springing! Oregon Edition!

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Early March, 2024


Oregon is simply magnificent in the spring.

Seriously – I love New England, and can’t wait to explore (and love, I hope) Europe, but I can’t imagine anywhere else in the world that has the same explosion of flowering growth that Oregon does in the spring. It’s staggering – it really feels like one day there’s empty tree limbs, and the next day the entire world is covered in the beautifully delicate flowers falling from Dogwoods, Magnolias, and Cherry Trees.

Alongside the explosion of flowers, the warm days have crested over us pretty solidly at this point. Shorts and tee shirts are the name of the game, and the Mustang is getting a lot of top-down driving time in. It’s lovely, beautiful, and all of those great adjectives that make us all happy for the growing things in the world.

I won’t wax on any further… instead, just enjoy some of the beautiful views that I’ve had:

Mar27

Daytime meals around Wilsonville

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March, 2024


As a quick departure from the words-heavy posts that I’ll be making, regarding my preparations and move out of the United States, here are a few quick pictures of some of the more interesting meals I’ve been having during the days while I’m not at work.

I have a lot of planning to do, but I’ve learned that cerebral work like that requires time away from the screen to succeed. Time for my brain to process what I’m working on, notice patterns, and connect dots to find inconsistencies or weak links in the plan. When I don’t, things go wrong. To make sure they go right, I take walks and eat sandwiches. Or gorge on dinosaur chicken nuggets.



I sip Lattes too, of course. I am still in Oregon, after all.