Just a quick catchup

Spent the weekend “camping” at a retreat in Pescadero with Chris, JJ and their daughter Maya. I say “camping” because we had a room in the lodge, so heat, bathrooms and electricity for all. So much for roughing it. It was a single night out on Saturday after a hard morning of Kajukembo. I’ll post some pics in the Flickr stream at some point. Just really beautiful.

JJ, Chris and I took a stroll down to the ocean and found a quiet beach. We had a bottle of wine as we watched Maya play with the birds. Then a sea lion popped up about 20 feet from the shore and proceeded to just watch us for the next 30 minutes or so, seemingly curious as to what we were doing on “his” beach.

Was a nice afternoon. The breeze wasn’t the usual brisk ocean air. A bit warmer and nicer.

In other news, many things moving quickly at work. A few bottlenecks appear to be getting broken (fingers crossed). Upcoming travel schedule is nutty.

Looking forward to my sister’s wedding in a couple weeks. It’ll be nice to see the extended family, many of whom I haven’t seen in 10+ years.