• Saturday: ran errands, visited the Columbia employee store where they were having a Memorial Day weekend sale with some cool rock climbing walls outside for the little dudes and face painting inside (if you’re into that kind of thing). Smallest dude made it halfway up the 40 foot wall, super fun, made me think I need to buy a portable rock wall.
• Sunday: drove out to Manzanita to hang out with family, made a couple of dutch oven recipes (BBQ chicken and berry cobbler) for dinner after playing at the beach for hours. Beautiful day at the coast after the clouds burned off.
• Monday: got rid of an old stove and an old trash compactor in about 30 minutes on Craigslist (amazing how quickly free stuff disappears), found the old chicken flock a new “home” (guessing they’ll actually be eaten) on Craigslist as well, cleaned out the old coop, lined it with rocks, lunch at Five Guys and then made some corn bread in the dutch oven in addition to an amazing potato salad out of Bon Appetit and a kale / avocado salad from the CSA we’re a part of for dinner.

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  Quote: "…initially attract users with a single-player tool and then, over time, get them to participate in a network. The tool helps get to initial critical mass. The network creates the long term value for users, and defensibility for the company"
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• Medium is not a publishing tool — The Story — Medium
  Lots of good stuff, the highlights and responses features are really nice additions.
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• You are Thinking of Your Career Trajectory Wrong | cek.log
  Quote: "… you should not measure your career in terms of a things like scope, money, or seniority on the Y-axis of a ballistics graph. Instead you should measure your career on the missions you undertook, the places they took you, and what you learned."
  (categories: advice career jobs work )

• Students – Guide to Technical Development – Google Careers
  Great list of work for someone wondering what to tackle next.
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Time flies, has been almost four months since my last weekend post. Mother’s Day weekend so…

• Saturday: Better half said she wanted a stove for Mother’s Day, I had bookmarked some stuff by BlueStar Cooking months ago because it looked cool, there’s a local distributor here in town that we visited on Saturday after the oldest’s soccer game. Great warehouse / storefront but nothing seemed to fit us. Lunch at Guero to go and a table inside at Jive on the 5th floor on a beautiful sunny day in Portland certainly fit us though. Came home and got the boneless lamb roast (purchased from Ponderosa Provisioners in Beaverton, highly recommended) started and then dug rocks out of the parkway strip (apparently that’s what it’s called?) for a couple hours (decorated with river rocks, has slowly filled with dirt and leaves over the past years and looks like a pile of dirt instead of something nicely maintained).
• Sunday: Mom got to sleep in, I made breakfast, she wanted “super greens” and a fried egg, tried these directions on for size, worked out pretty well. Got the lamb in the oven at 1pm, finished work on the rocks with Grandpa, got the potatoes in the oven while the lamb was resting, put together a really great salad with this dressing (doubled the recipe for the four of us and we had a bunch left over), sourdough bread procured, sliced and toasted and had dinner outside. Lamb was fantastic, we had two five pound legs while the recipe called for one 10-12 pound leg so I probably should have cooked it less (was at 141 degrees after 3 hours, should have been at 130 to 135) but the 500 degree toast at the end to crisp up the skin was a nice touch.