Time's Almost Up

I was walking home from the office and I realized that my time is almost up at the Wyatt. I have to move out a week from tomorrow. Thankfully my old friend from Gates, Jerry Burn, offered to let me stay at his house in Beaverton for the few days between my eviction and my flight to meet up with my family.

It seems like such a long time ago that I landed at PDX. I remember arriving at the Wyatt in my rental car and having absolutely no idea how to get into the garage. I circled the building a few times before I happened to see someone pulling into the garage, and then I followed them. Then it took me a while to find my parking space. But by the end of the two weeks of having the rental car I knew how to get around easily.

That's the big lesson: things are always scary and confusing when they are new, but you do eventually learn how to do things, and they actually become easy.

I'm going to miss this nice, cable tv-equipped apartment. It has been great to not have to worry about where I am living all this time. Instead I was free to focus on where our family will live when they join me.

It's a very nice apartment, in a very nice apartment building, in a very nice part of town. I especially enjoy looking out the big windows and seeing the immense I-5 bridge.

In eight days I'll leave the apartment for good. And 10 days after that I'll board a plane for SLC and meet the family! We are driving to Oregon instead of flying.

Today was the Producer offsite day, a day dedicated to celebrating, having a good time, and not working. Except Lori and I did have to work. We had a client call at 1pm, smack dab in the middle of all the festivities. But, as Pierre said, the work comes first. Lori and I joined the group later on for dinner at a great Thai restaurant. Here's Pierre giving his evening speech.

After dinner I walked the 1.5 miles home, rather than catching a cab. I walked over the Burnside Bridge and snapped this photo of a famous sign. The lighting is terrible.