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Journal – 010923

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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 

Journal – 310823

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 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 

Journal – 300823

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 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

Journal – 290823

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 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 

Journal – 270823

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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

Journal – 260823

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 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

Journal – 250823

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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 

Journal – 240823

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 It was a nice day at work. Everything is caught up and was a nice easy. I went swimming during lunch. I washed clothes and helped the kids fold them. Spend some time with the kids playing games and cleaning the house.

 ☀️ 80°F – 59°F 🙂 | Seattle 

Journal – 230823

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 I woke up this morning to clean air and a recently washed city. It was a nice cool morning drive. I had to deliver unwelcome news to the team that we need to all be in the office Monday – Wednesday.  A few didn’t like the change.  Once I arrived home, I went swimming, played Mech Areana with my son, and read with my daughter.  Since it is getting darker early, I am planning to go to bed and wake up an hour later. 

I am slowly packing for a bike trip with my friend in the Cascades. It will be a 3-day trip and should be fun.

 🌦️ 74°F – 53°F 🙂 | Seattle