The first thing I need to say is that it's so nice to see so much green. Portland's downtown is beautiful with big maple and oak trees lining the downtown streets. The riverfront park that separates downtown from the Willamette River stretches quite a ways and provides the path from the hotel I'm staying at to the conference location. It's hard to believe that Portland and Oregon have the highest unemployment rates for US cities and states. It's such a great town, who wouldn't want to locate a business here?
Check your mailboxes! Especially if you live on Calle Cedro. Not for exploding packages, but for flattened roadkill.
As the weather has been warmer, Ryan has been playing a lot with Brittney and Jonathan, the neighborhood kids, down the street. We've had some "episodes" with Brittney in the past, but I figured playing outside is better than staying cooped up in the house or sitting in front of the TV.
Well, as some of you know, we've had our house on the market since the middle of January. After one failed contract in February, we're about 4 weeks away from moving out of the only house our family has known.
I've meant to update our site for a while. It wasn't much of anything before with the exception of the caricature of the family that Amy had drawn.
I started to build a few features but never used them and thought of several others but it wasn't until a few few weeks ago that I started to put my money where my mind was.
I'm not the number one super guy, but I'm working on it. Ryan and I have been taking Karate since last September and October, respectively. It's about the only active thing I've been doing lately and it's been a lot of fun.