An intense June

I can just conclude that working full time and blogging is an equation that does not work for me.

I spend all my days performing research, thinking, reading, and writing, and, at the end of the day, I am just not up for blogging.

However, things might be about to change as there has been some new developments in our family.

After a relaxing break in Vancouver, Canada over the Memorial weekend at the end of May, we moved into a rather intense phase in June.

First of all, Christer was offered a job at a company outside of Microsoft. Of course, this required a lot of thinking for all of us. While thinking, Christer and Zoe went on a mountain bike ride in Duthie Hill park in Redmond. Exactly what happened there I guess we will never know, because from the point where Christer became airborne, in one of the jumps, until the ambulance arrived, he has no memory what so ever. What we do know is that he landed on his face, which resulted in multiple facial fractures and a visit to the facial surgeon. For those of you who want the details, the surgeon made two incisions, one through the side of his eye and one underneath his upper lip. Now Christer has two artificial plates in his face and looks like Robocop. No. Only kidding. Luckily, the fractures were mild, and Christer’s face has healed nicely.

A few days later, I was laid off from work together with 38 other contractors at Microsoft. Apparently, they are changing their strategy for hiring contractors. So suddenly, I have some free time in the middle of the summer. Time for more thinking and planning.

And yes, Christer decided to leave Microsoft after 5,5 interesting and intense years. His new employer is another big Seattle company, Amazon, which I am sure most of you have heard about.

So, all in all, things have worked out fine, but I would not want every month to be like this month has been, thank you very much.