Last Mainland Workday

Oregon is teasing me on the way out the door with a little high pressure ridge building and temps soaring into the sixties.

You can't fool me ... again ... or again.

Bittersweet to leave a place that was low pressure to work, but challenging and always something new to learn. Great group of mid-career, no-drama professionals I've worked with for the past 2+ years. I'll miss them and think fondly of this place.

Sharing a little something for pau hana this afternoon, then picking up my girls and going to get wife at the airport. She has enjoyed a week of work in San Francisco, where similar weather is happening. She's also been scouting for an upcoming event, which meant some good restaurant meals.

Here we come, Oahu.

Stumptown Spring Teaser

Nice try, you little flirt; flashing your cherry blossoms at me in the sun. 

I'm still leaving. 

Plumeria pulls me south and west. 

Buckaroos

This is the last week on the weekly schedule with my younger daughters, 11 and 9. They are excited about the move to Oahu, even though they are going to see me less frequently in their daily lives. Haven't ironed out details yet, but expect to have them over there for some extended stays, which will be a better deal than our current arrangement. They are with me one week and their mom the other, alternating. Unfortunately, that situation is very hard on us all and moving apart has been recommended by all of the professionals we've consulted with over the past few years.

I've got a good bond with them; I've been volunteering at their school each week since they started their in kindergarten, six years ago. I also spent a lot of time at their Montessori daycare.

Still, it's hard to give up the daily life. It's a great opportunity for me professionally. It's in a place my wife and I love to live; the place where we married. And it gives us the opportunity to thrive in a new life of our own, without the constant battles required to hold our space here.

Enough of that. Got questions for me about the details of our struggle? Buy me a mai tai and I'll give you a dissertation on personality disorders from a front-row perspective.

Time to surf.

Surfboard transport

Baggage rules appear to have changed. I have three 10'6" boards, two of which were made in Hawaii. All of them have gone back and forth. Hawaiian Air now says I can't haul anything over 9'6.

Maybe I just show up and keep the fingers crossed.

50

My half-century birthday year is here. I'm leaving the rainy Pacific Northwet and moving back to Oahu.