hey! So quick update:

Since the last post, I've visited Tauranga, decided to take the job, came home to Oregon early to visit and take care of a few things, planned on spending a month here, gone back to construction... etc.

The visa application process is a pain. I have to get a work visa to go back, which I haven't turned in yet because I need the church there to send me a few things. theoretically I was supposed to be back there for the first Sunday in April. It won't happen... not without a miracle. Or several. But that's what I'm shooting for.

Been cold. Acclimating is a problem.

Very good to see family and friends.

There's actually good coffee here.

I'd forgotten how "Portland" Portland is. Especially hanging around Hawthorne over the weekend. Unbelievable. My friend described it as.... "secondhand hipster."

Hiked to the top of Multnomah falls the other day. Never done that before, at least that I remember. Cool. Lots of people.

Home sick from work today. Working on a second story addition and I can't focus because my brain is impaired. Went in, then decided it would be better to come back home than risk hurting myself or someone else because I can't think. Just a cold, hopefully gone by tomorrow.