Kjel.org has made an offer to purchase a house in the Garden Home area of Portland (SW 49th, property more or less abutting greenspace and then Woods Creek) and said offer was accepted. We had a professional home inspector tour the proposed facility last week and he prepared and submitted a report to the Organization. Fortunately nothing too earth-shattering was contained in that report, but we have amended our offer slightly because of it. It’ll be a cold day in hell before the CEO again lives in a house without a fully optimized central AC system. Get that fixed and we got ourselves a deal.

If you own property in town Portlandmaps.com is one of the most useful websites ever; use it to learn all kinds of interesting things about your neighbors and your neighborhood in general. A few days back I learned that a certain property owner lost a zoning battle with the city back in the 90’s, and is now stuck with several undevelopable lots that just so happen to sit between the new HQ and Woods Creek. Short of the City deciding to rescind the conservation district it has already formed and then decide to build some roads over a wetland, the woods behind the new HQ will never, ever be developed. City of Portland, I hereby apologize for any previous slights that may have appeared on this website. If you can keep that land next to the new HQ undeveloped you can change the name of the street where I work to FucktheCEO Parkway and I still won’t complain.

Trust me: as a former 11 year old boy, there is nothing better than having your own patch of attached ‘wilderness’ to explore and play in. The lads will get the area between our house and 45th. The CEO also plans to stock our little beat of Woods Creek with fish so that should be fun too. Our own private trout stream. As far as I can tell from looking at the topo maps Woods Creek starts at about the Castle Superstore, or possibly the Starbucks. Prime salmonid habitat I’m sure. Blinky, is that you?

A portable storage unit is being delivered to the current HQ on Friday. That’s when things are really going to get serious. I anticipate seeing parts of my garage that have gone unseen since 2004 or so. I’m hoping for no surprises. If anyone wants to come over for a little while on Saturday afternoon and help me move some of the heavy stuff, feel free. I can’t be held responsible for what you may or may not see however. And there is an outside chance that I might ask you to sign a non-disclosure agreement before the fact. Let’s just hope that we don’t find, er, anything weird. I’ll just leave it at that.