Our Random Ramblings

Allright -- so it feels like it is time to come out of the proverbial closet.

I quit intel a little over ten weeks ago -- and what have I *really* been up to aside from all the important stuff:

1. hanging out with Cian and Anne
2. visiting the mountain for snow play
3. hiking out the columbia river gorge
4. hanging out in santa fe for a week
5. watching Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back with Cian
6. running out in the local forest (getting up to an hour a run now) 
7. finally updating this bleeding blog
8. you get the picture....

I took the leap of faith from Intel so I could pause and generally slow down and see what else is out there.

So over the last while, I have managed to start up the shell of two businesses.
One is nua consulting -- which will be my "storefront" for my own consulting. Focusing on the HR & IT work I have been doing for too  so long.
www.nuaconsulting.com

A little more exciting (for me at least) is an outdoor adventure organization that will try to get Portland families and their kids outside into the wilderness. I could go on about this -- but I did that over at the blog for this new venture.
I have become more and more intrigued by the widening gap between kids and our local wilderness -- and want to try to give kids the opportunity to get dirty in the wild.

WILD is what we will call it -- Wildlife Introductions for Learning & Development.

Check out www.childrenoutside.com for Ronan 2.0

Adventures here we come!

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So Anne left Cian and I, up to our own devices this weekend -- and one of our guilty pleasusres was sitting in on a miserable wet Sunday morning and watching the Empire Strikes Back.

Ah yes -- it was one of those father and son moments. Although I was surprised (and touched) when at the end of the show he started to cry because "Han Solo was my favourite guy -- and he got frozen!!".
What a movie! (I can't wait for Return of the Jedi to be shown!)

Otherwise we had a fun time -- Fiona came over to goof around and they had some laughs while they collected flowers:

The flowers were going to be used as presents for their mothers' return (Fiona's mum was away with Anne). So we created a fine welcome home for Anne -- with a tray of camellia's at the front door awaitng her along with a "welcome home! mama" note inscribed by Cian.

Cute, eh?

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When it is so simple it can be so fun!

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Just returned from a few days (Thurs - Tue) in Santa Fe, with Anne's parents.

It's always a pleasure -- good company, 1961 Lafite-Rotschild, sunny weather and, oh, did I mention the wine?

We were there to celebrate Verena's birthday -- and Cian decided he wanted to wear something special. So he donned his Chinese dragon outfit to mark the event:

It was a fun evening -- with the birthday girl getting into the festivities:

But, as always we had time to explore and play outside too:

As ever, a fun visit.

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