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Year 14

It is incredibly easy to fall into a routine and just run on cruise control year after year.

Here’s to planning for business as usual >>
Photo of an exhibitor badge for Sakura-Con 2025.

So What Happened At Sakura-Con This Year?

No one ever wants a literal fire at con.

My recollection of events >>
Photo of the view looking north from the 20th floor of The Ritz-Carlton, Portland.

Happy Holidays 2024

A quiet year ahead of ten years in Portland.

Read the annual letter >>

Fair Winds & Following Seas feat. ATLYS

ZREO: Second Quest's first physical release.

Get your CD >>

Crunchyroll Acquiring Right Stuf Makes Sense

But it is a move to be concerned about.

A new level of control >>

It is incredibly easy to fall into a routine and just run on cruise control year after year.

Year 14

Photo of an exhibitor badge for Sakura-Con 2025.

No one ever wants a literal fire at con.

So What Happened At Sakura-Con This Year?

Photo of the view looking north from the 20th floor of The Ritz-Carlton, Portland.

A quiet year ahead of ten years in Portland.

Happy Holidays 2024: A Weirdly Quiet Year

Taken on May 11, 2025 @ 17:19.

Picture Post: Feels like a pinot noir kind of night.

Photo of a Kumoricon camp mug in front of a teapot brewing a cup of tea.

Taken on May 10, 2025 @ 08:02.

Picture Post: Off to Olympia for the day. Come say …

Photo of Link, one of two cougar cougar cubs at the Oregon Zoo, climbing a log to investigate bubbles being blown by a keeper, left, behind fence.

Taken on May 09, 2025 @ 11:58.

Picture Post: Link and Nova are carefully checking out a …

Photo of the Heavenly Falls at the Portland Japanese Garden.

Taken on May 06, 2025 @ 18:45.

Picture Post: And now one minute of the Heavenly Falls …

Photo of a stream in the Natural Garden of the Portland Japanese Garden with a small waterfall accented by sunlight through the trees above.

Taken on May 06, 2025 @ 15:52.

Picture Post: I really do love the lighting this time …

Taken on May 06, 2025 @ 15:46.

Picture Post: Because the world is just too busy these …

Photo of a bush in the Natural Garden of the Portland Japanese Garden with multiple small flowers budding. One is slightly one in the shape of a miniature rose.

Taken on May 06, 2025 @ 15:41.

Picture Post: Just a tiny bloom starting to open.

Photo of several wisteria in bloom along the Wisteria Arbor at the Portland Japanese Garden.

Taken on May 06, 2025 @ 15:18.

Picture Post: Annual Meeting of the Membership at the Japanese …

Photo of a Portland Streetcar at the PSU Urban Center platform ahead of an upcoming closure to rebuild the platform. A Temporary Closure notice is present on the stop flag.

Taken on May 04, 2025 @ 18:31.

Picture Post: Don’t forget: starting TOMORROW, the station at PSU …

Selfie taken under the Wisteria Arbor at the Portland Japanese Garden.

Taken on May 02, 2025 @ 16:08.

Picture Post: Obligatory wisteria selfie.

Photo of wisteria in bloom along the Wisteria Arbor at the Portland Japanese Garden.

Taken on May 02, 2025 @ 16:07.

Picture Post: Wisteria is here and it smells fantastic.

Taken on May 02, 2025 @ 14:47.

Picture Post: Snack time for the sea otters.

Taken on May 02, 2025 @ 12:54.

Picture Post: Nora just wants to play in the pool. …

Photo of polar bears Nora, in pool, and Amelia Gray, standing outside at the Oregon Zoo.

Taken on May 02, 2025 @ 12:43.

Picture Post: Nora and Amelia Gray are having a heck …

Photo of an affogato at the Central Eastside Nossa Familia cafe.

Taken on May 02, 2025 @ 11:05.

Picture Post: I think it’s an affogato weather day.

Photo of Portland Streetcar 032 at SE Grand and Hawthorne.

Taken on May 02, 2025 @ 10:47.

Picture Post: Here we see car 032 blending in with …

Photo of Portland Streetcar 031 heading northbound from S Moody and Meade.

Taken on May 02, 2025 @ 10:18.

Picture Post: Just car 031 matching the weather again today. …

Photo of a set of manga display shelves from Daiso.

Taken on Apr 30, 2025 @ 18:38.

Picture Post: Finally had a chance to pop in the …

Photo of Portland Streetcar 031 as it turns from S Moody on to the Tilikum Crossing.

Taken on Apr 30, 2025 @ 14:36.

Picture Post: Car 031 is matching the weather today. #gobystreetcar

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