WordPress, better cities, and everything else
Our vacation in Sunriver last weekend was far too short. I climbed the cinder cone twice, once with a Burley and once without. Ava took her first bike ride to the marina. And we regained all of our calories from ice cream at Goody’s.
Post-work, pre-dinner bike ride around the airstrip.
Memo to self: always put the cover on the front. Because dirt and baby.
Braved the mosquitos for a 7 mile hike to Benham Falls. It turned out to be markedly easier than 11 months ago when Leah was pregnant. A last minute plane ticket switch to come to Redmond was totally worth it.
Off to Philly today for SRCCON, a gathering of some of the nerds who make the technology behind the news. I am so excited! For years, CMSes, publishing workflows, and the unsexy but very mission critical technologies have been my passion. Yet most of the conferences, online discussion, etc. have skirted around the topic, in part because legacy organizational structure hasn’t let the hackers get to work.
Funny how things go if you stick at it long enough. Washington Post and Vox have made great leaps forward, and convinced executives everywhere that change is possible. Hell, even The New Yorker relaunched on WordPress two days ago. NBD.
Back to Portland Saturday night, off to Sunriver Sunday through Wednesday, and then to New York for WCNYC Thursday through the following Wednesday. REST API retooling here we come!
“We kick ass. This morning we finished our second half-marathon and beat our personal record by three minutes at twice the altitude. Now we’re going to eat burgers.” – Leah
“This girl is crazy. Over the last forty-eight hours, I’ve pulled an all-nighter, run eight miles around Rome, flown 14 hours back to Portland, and drove four hours to Sunriver. Somehow she convinced me to wake up at 6 am and run a half-marathon with her. I’ll be eating my burgers in the hot tub.” – Daniel
Took advantage of the good weather and VIP’s semi-flexible tools rotation to do my final required cross-country work before my checkride. Departed Twin Oaks for Sunriver via Salem. The flight over the Cascades was a little bumpy so I climbed up to 9,500 ft. Total time to Sunriver was 1.6 hours.
For the return, I flew north from Sunriver to the Dalles and then cut down the Gorge. One of the neatest things about this trip was having what’s called flight following. This is where either Portland or Seattle has you on radar the entire time. They’ll then give you traffic advisories if your flight path is crossing another plane’s. It’s also a nice amonut of banter to keep you company as you spend a few hours solo in the cockpit. The flight back took 2.1 hours.
These photos and videos are a bit of what I saw along the way (gradually improving my aerial photography).