myintrotoletuknow

Thought I'd start one of these up . . . I have been on Myspace (http://www.myspace.com/pete4ducks) for almost a year and that was my first experience with the whole blog thing, been liking it so far . . . well who am I may you ask? I am a 30 year-old man (so far being 30 has rocked I was so scared to leave my 20's but it has been great) who moved from from Eugene, Oregon to Portland, Oregon in April of 2005. I guess you could say my late 20's were somewhat of a quarter-life crisis. I had a good stable job stable job that I knew how to do well but unhappiness from my personal life and boredom from the sameness of my job in Corporate America and life in general swelled up to the point where I knew I needed a change. I have enjoyed my time in Portland, in a way re-inventing myself in the process. I work for a non-profit organization in Lake Oswego I enjoy here though I hate my commute. In between leaving my job in Eugene and moving to Portland I spent a great couple of week's in Asia visiting my parents in Taiwan and then we went to Thailand to spend some time on the beach in Koh Samui and then off to Bangkok for a few days of shopping and trying to avoid the scorching heat (106 F with tons of humidity).

My interests are varied. I am a very big sports fan but outside of the NFL I could really care less about pro sports. College is definitely where I like to be when it comes to athletics viewing. My love is the University of Oregon (www.goducks.com) Ducks of-course but I just love the emotion of th college athletics so much more than professional sports. I was never very much a political person however the Bush administration really changed that for me. Somedays I hope that I could wake up from the bad dream that has been leveled on this country and planet by the Bush cartel. I guess my goals for the future are varied. I am working on plans to develop a eco-friendly resort somewhere in the developing world, whether that be Central America, the South Pacific or even somehwere else I would love the opportunity to live in paradise yet at the same time fight to protect the culture and environment of the area I move to and prove local folks with employment opportunities. I like my job now but I would really enjoy moving into something that allowed me to travel internationally frequentely, so if anyone has any ideas of how I might go about doing that I would love to hear from you.

Well that is my first blog of hopefully many to come. Hope my spelling and grammar weren't too offensive . . .

Pete