Russell and I recently went camping at Blue River Reservoir near the McKenzie River. Here are some pictures:

Gosh! It's been awhile. I don't know why I stopped posting other than I feel like I'm always busy. I'm so pleased to announce I am finally, after much hard work and networking, a photolithography process engineer! This last week was my first as an engineer and I think I'm really going to like it. It may sound funny, but I'm glad I can ( Read more... )

Today was a pretty uneventful day. I slept in until 9am and spent a leisurely morning reading Anna Karenina while drinking my coffee. I am enjoying this book immensely. I think Konstantin Levin is my favorite character thus far. As I'm only 140 pages of approximately 800 I'm going to reserve judgement, but once I start reading it I can't ( Read more... )

I had my interview today. It went very well. I feel really quite good about my chances of getting the job. I guess it all really depends on how I did comparatively. The questions were almost exactly the same as the last time I interviewed for the photolithography eng'r job. I now feel glad that I based most of the little studying I did on ( Read more... )

Well, today was so nice, but once again I was so tired when I got home that I slept all day. I really meant only to sleep until about 1, but I didn't get up until 4pm. I have another interview tomorrow. This will be my 3rd interview for the photolithography eng'r job. The first two turned out to be quite a debacle. Due to the inexperience of ( Read more... )

I finally got the e-mail scheduling my interview. It sure takes forever for HR to make decisions on this kind of stuff. Seeing the e-mail brought on a mixture of relief and anxiety. I'm relieved that I did indeed get the interview, as I'm always paranoid that perhaps I won't get one for whatever reason. However, I'm now quite nevous as this ( Read more... )

Today I woke up with with my muscles completely sore and stiffened from yesterday's escapades in Douglas county logging country. Joe arrived at our house as scheduled at 9:30 so we could go riding. I busied myself getting food and our riding clothing together while Russell got the trailer ready with the bikes and accessories. For some reason he ( Read more... )

Friday morning's drive home was abruptly interrupted by a horrendous car-wreck. Fortunately we're were not one of the cars involved, but if we had been about 1 min. earlier we would have been. Russell was driving the Ford and we were almost home just approaching the tunnel before Hancock Mt. road right outside of Elkton when he slammed on the ( Read more... )

So, it turns out the cold I have is much more than I had originally bargained for. I was caught off-guard because it's been so slow in taking its course and it's lasting a long time. It's not really been too much in my throat, but confined to my head and nose. I'm not sure if having all these sinus headaches is better or worse than coughing all ( Read more... )