Friday, September 7, 2012

Time and time again

Well, for some reason my old blog was deleted because on my old account (this "khubax" account), Google detected some "suspicious activity", so who knows what happened... not that I had more than two or three posts on that blog anyway. I will play around with the layout to beautify it later.

So after moving from the Southwest to the Northeast, I have now moved to the Pacific Northwest, at least temporarily. I am currently living in The Dalles, Oregon, a city of about 12,500 about an hour and a half east of Portland. I'll be here for the next 6 months as one of the rotations in my current role and will be working on the Field Services team for a large wind farm about an hour from The Dalles.

Since my apartment-mate and I will have a lot of time to ourselves and don't know anybody in this area, I've thought of some personal goals during these six months.

1. Eat healthier - more fresh food, more home-cooking, self-control of one's diet (i.e. eat less)
2. Exercise a lot more - besides climbing wind turbines, planning to buy an entry-level road bike and ride around, ski a lot during the winter (partly in order to make the cost of a season pass at Mt. Hood worthwhile), and hike when the weather permits
3. Read more books - I think I will have much more time to sit down and enjoy some books. Hopefully.
4. Learn new things - signed up for some online courses about model-based thinking, learning Python, maybe see if the nearby community college offers anything interesting
5. Develop hobbies - I have not been doing anything really on the creative side since... middle school? So I want to do some art, have some fun, and do something not too stressful on my time off. I miss doing a lot of hands-on stuff

Hopefully I can update this blog every so often with things I've learned from the five goals above, since I am a noob at all of them.

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