I stayed up late last night outside next to the fire. It was nice but it knocks my sleeping pattern and forces me to sleep in later. I just cleaned up the house in the morning and took a nap this afternoon. It was just a lazy Sunday for me.
☁️ 73°F – 54°F 🥱 | Seattle
Up early with my son shopping for groceries. Afterwards we headed to the mall to get a pretzel, walk around and just talk. Mostly about video games and school. Afterwards me and the kids swam in the pool to cool off from the sweltering summer day.
☀️ 88°F – 62°F 🙂 | Seattle
Looking forward to the 3-day weekend. Nothing planned but I am excited to start traveling around the state without the crowds next week and beyond. For some reason after Labor Day most people stay home. Camping sites availability becomes open and drive times lessen. Next week I want drive to coastal towns just to visit.
At work I am changing the way I take vacations. My plan is to not take small three day breaks anymore. I am going to just collect PTO and take weeklong breaks. I should be able to take 2 weeks worth of vacation a year. I am going to try to take a whole week off for the holidays in December this year.
🌤️ 76°F – 58°F 🙂 | Seattle
Long day. Drove a bit, dropping the kids off and heading to work. Then I left early and finished my work in the school’s parking lot while waiting for the kids. I played video games with the kids before dinner. Read before bedtime.
🌧️ 71°F – 53°F 🙂 | Seattle
Meetings, meetings, meetings. Spent the day talking to people. Moving away from how things are set up by upper management and making changes that make sense by the people that perform the work. I am ending multi-tasking and going back to focused work.
🌧️ 71°F – 56°F 🥱 | Seattle
I drove to the office and had to return home due to the sitter having covid. I worked from home and handled my meetings online. A lot of changes, mostly good that I will need to figure out how to implement.
🌧️ 60°F – 58°F 🥱 | #Seattle
Spent the day cleaning the camping gear and all the kids’ clothes. Getting them ready for school this week. They start on Wednesday. I used today to get all of this week’s household duties done to make it easier for me.
🌧️ 69°F – 57°F 🙂 | Seattle
Up at 6:30 and made breakfast. Two eggs, bacon and linguica rolled in a pita bread. Ate breakfast sitting next to the stream. Packed up and left by 11:30 am. The ride back to the car was uneventful. I had a fun, relaxing trip.
Planning to do more frequent trips solo. Maybe just quick overnight trips.
☀️ 89°F – 64°F 🙂 | Iron Horse Trail
Road out for 9 miles to a small hidden campsite off Iron Horse Trail. It was a nice ride to the campsite. Saw quite a few small chipmunks on trail. I got up at 2:30 am to check out the stars. It was pitch dark and you could see the Milky Way.
☀️ 87°F – 61°F 🙂 | Iron Horse Trail
Slow day at work. I spent most of the time setting up the radio SDR on my Surface Go and Android Tablet. I am going to take the tablet with me to tomorrow’s camping trip with my friend. See what signal I can get up in the cascades.
☀️ 83°F – 61°F 😐 | Seattle
Life in the Pacific NW 