Ok, I admit that I have been severely neglecting my blog. It's not that I haven't had time to update the blog, but rather I am just not in the mood to update my blog. When I look back, this has kinda happened to all of my blogs. Live journal, Myspace, Wordpress, the first time I started using Blogger, and a few other blogging clients that don't exist anymore. Anyway, I think the difference with this blog is that I actually keep updating it... even though sometimes I neglect it for extended periods of time.
So, what's the title about? Well, technically, when I sign contracts for jobs at Microsoft, they are always 3 month contracts. Then they get extended to 6 months... 9 months... a year max. Today was the day that I was notified that my contract has been extended until October. To be honest the date means nothing. My Zune contract got extended from October to January a week or two before they let me go in November. I am convinced the whole thing is just set up to make us contractors feel unstable in our position... a trick to try and improve our performance so we can get our contract extended. It doesn't matter though.
This leads me to exactly what it is that my blog readers are missing out on over the past... while. I went to Oregon... I have pictures to put up still... I need to get some pictures from Scott... I guess I'm waiting until I get pictures from Scott (which I just need to ask him for.)
Scott came to visit! He showed up on Wednesday (2 weeks ago... jeeze I have fallen behind.) and we went to visit Lloyd Thursday... which by the way I should really call Lloyd, it was fun hanging out with him. Anyway... So, yea... where was I. Umm... OK, so we ended up dropping Jaani off with my friends Ricky and Elly... which I kept hearing from everyone in Renton about how surprised they were to see Jaani with someone else... I think Jaani loved visiting with them. He didn't want to leave. Anyway... Off to Oregon we went.
It was exciting in Oregon! We stayed in Portland the first night, then we went to the Honeyman dunes in Florance Oregon the second night... The third day we were at the Country Fair, which is like a huge ren-fest with live music and concerts all day... and the third night we stayed in Portland again. The final day before we left Portland, we went for a bike ride to check out the stores and other cool stuff around where James and Emerald live... finally we managed to get back into the Seattle area at around 9PM to pick up Jaani and take him home. We finished off the night with Sushi at Nijo... which is one of my favorite sushi places... Mainly because they have good saki.
The following day, Scott and I got up and went to Beth's Cafe... I really think of places like Beth's as authentic Seattle cuisine. Lots of bacon, eggs, and hash browns. Anyway, after that we made a quick stop in Fremont, and then it was off to the airport.
ok, so that's what happened in a nutshell. I'll have some pictures and more details soon.
Later,
SteveO
