This is the trip I had to cancel out on to take my job with megacorp (where they just asked me for a projection of measurable accomplishments on a weekly basis from now until the end of the year) and it would have been my first trip back in 14 years. I left a fiancee and an engineering job because my dad was ailing and what do I have to show for it now? A quick trip to a crashing high tech company, dozens of rejection letters from medical school, never finding another full-time engineering job, several jobs at startups that meant long hours with little pay, and lots of other things I won’t actually list.

I was finally going back to visit friends and relatives for three weeks including a trip to the Japan Sea town of Toyama and a ham radio convention, but I had to cancel it all. Ah, well, that’s life.

I better hit the hay. I had to make a trip to a couple of grocery stores before I found a box of Ho-Ho’s. Dr. Kawasaki, the son of Dr. Kawasaki, and the brother of Dr. Kawasaki, liked Ho-Ho’s when he was a kid here in Portland, so we take him some as a gift. We just got an email asking for a second box, so I had to drive around and find some. I have to get up before 5AM to drive my ma to the airport so I better call it quits.