Howdy from gorgeous Oregon!
I'm coming to you live and direct from my brothers hacienda here to Milwaukee, OR.
When I refer to "him" I often just say, "Portland", although he lives a little south of Portland in unincorporated Clackamas County...I can address an envelope to him to either Portland, Milwaukee or Junction Hills and as long as I have the Zip Code correct he gets it.
I came down...although it's not down, it's more like WNU (West-North-Up) last week to spend some time at a conference put on by a faction of that Anonymous Fellowship of ex-problem drinkers that I belong to and speak to them of my experience, strength and hope regarding my experiences before, during and after I became one of those ex-problem drinkers in March of 1987.
Wowsers...that's o'er 25 years without a drink!
That's pretty amazing and you know, there are people I haven't even met yet who are glad I quit drinking!
That gig was Friday through Sunday in Eugene and now i get to spend a week with my bro and my crazy sis-in-law...and I say crazy very lovingly...she's nuts in a positive way and I love her for it.
My bro is a master chef although for a living he's an IT person. His blog is:
http://beastinthekitchen.wordpress.com and you gotta check it out. If you are a dog person, as he and his lawfully wedded spouse are, you can dig around and find his dog food recipe...it's grand and Nellie and Fioina, their two highnessii (plural of highness) are all the more better for their gourmet dining.
I lived in the PNW in either WA or OR from 'bout 1960 - 1975ish and I loved it.
I was living in Eugene when the word came from Red Feather Lakes, CO that my mothers cancer had become terminal and she had but 6 mos or so and I packed up and moved to Red Feather with the intention of just staying 'til she passed and then coming back to OR. Well, she made it for almost 3 years instead of 6 mos and I stayed in Colorado and so I now visit OR whenever I can to see my bro and/or to speak at conferences.
At the conference I just left I won the Grand Prize of an all expense paid...less transportation to and fro...for next years conference, so I shall return as an attendee and not as a speaker and that should be fun.
Is it ironic or __________(fill in the blank) that now that I have cancer I am returning to the PNW periodically???
Medicine has made great strides and the cancer that I have was deemed untreatable just a few years ago and just since I got diagnosed in March of 2010 and was given a prognosis of, "If everything goes right you might get 5 years to 10-20 years and maybe longer with the progress I have made and he progress the medical realm has made in the treatment of Multiple Myeloma ~ my cancer.
Wellst, I promised myself that I would begin the blogging thing more seriously (who me?)/often to develop the habit so I'm now going to skip over to one of my "Business Blogs": http://petesrealestatemusings.wordpress.com and post...
See you there?
