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@ the portland airport

@ the portland airport
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i am assuming this will be the first entry that helen sees, which must give an odd, silly impression, and i hope she doesn't forever associate me with oversized frogs. i am making it worse by stating the fact. in any case, here is a humongous frog. a co-worker had told me that some lot a few blocks from our office has a bunch of odd parade floats in storage. northwest industrial has some curious warehouses.

Few minutes in the city

with a 4 and a half hour layover in newark, i had to make the most of it by jetting into the city. while i am not exactly homesick for the big apple yet, i did want to get my fix. i was absolutely elated to emerge from penn station onto an overcrowded 7th avenue. back in the 1930s, before commercial air travel, penn station was a traveller's first gateway to nyc. i experienced that entrance for the first time yesterday. it was my first jaunt into nyc as a visitor.

arriving in midtown at 3pm, we walked through H&M, up 7th ave past my old work neighborhood, to bryant park. too bad there wasn't enough time to skate at the new icerink.



we met up with charu & tom for coffee and gifts at the Coliseum bookstore's cafe. it was perfect that we got to catch up even for a little bit - just under one hour. at 4:05 we had to jump onto the subway and we made our newark train with only 3 minutes to spare.

it was nice to be able to plan the timing thanks to the Airtrain.

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Up the block from my office

it is bitter cold in nyc, and while it is wintry in pdx, i feel so lucky to be enveloped in sunshine. today, i trekked over to forest park near my office, and saw the most heavenly light. i didn't have time for a true ramble, but i visited a creek just past an old green steel bridge. the air smelled so fresh.



it is strange to be working in another city, even another office. while i enjoy a development space that doesn't work on an agonizingly slow remote server, and gaze at douglas firs out in the distance, i am in the good company of one or two office mascots who quietly watch over us.