2021 – December part 1
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
We took a trip to the Portland International Raceway and attended the light show as someone in our neighborhood couldn’t go and gave us their tickets. We went to an event in downtown Gresham as well where they had a car show of sorts decorated with Christmas lights – at the same time they lit their trees.
We took a trip to see different views of Mt. Hood now that the snow was making its peaks white again. It is a beautiful mountain.






We attended another Blazers game (Luca is a big fan of going to the games, despite what you may think). The Portland Timbers made it to the Championship game (they lost) but before that, they had this thing set up downtown to take a picture next to. We made the journey and took our photos next to it.
No more than a couple of days later, we had a wind storm that knocked down the fence between our house and the neighbor’s house. That’ll be fun to get fixed. I’m still having fun at home with the kids when I’m not at work (as seen in the photo below). There is a viewpoint we found that has GREAT views of the land leading up to Mt. Hood. Anyway, we went across it the other day and saw the valley had patches of fog, the sky was spotted with clouds and you could make out the mountain. It is really picturesque.





At work, things have taken an interesting turn. I have been working for Bio Marin however one of the P3 executives had me interview with Microsoft. I ended up knowing the guy because he used to work at BPA – small world! He mentioned that I would be a great fit and that they wanted me to start at the end of December or the beginning of January.
So, instead of P3 telling Bio Marin about this- they sat on it for as long as they could. When they finally told them it was a big blow-up. They wanted to keep me on the team and as the project manager and didn’t want to bring someone else on. P3 was given instructions from high up that I would be going to Microsoft regardless, so make it happen.
It burned some bridges that P3 had made but I think they’ll end up being okay in the end. As for me, I’ll be starting with Microsoft at the end of the month and starting the work at the beginning of January. Crazy changes in such a small window of time after having things be so stable for so long.
just Pray