This is a blog post I can’t publish for a long time. When Taylor ended our nascent relationship a few weeks ago, she played the “chemistry” card. I know that card. It’s been played so many times. And I know why it gets played. I don’t fall for women quickly.…
I started mucking around with blogging about the transit situation here in Seattle a couple of weeks ago. This blog averages a couple of hits a day. The new blog got 70 hits. Yeah, 20 are from me, reviewing what I wrote. But man, the traffic is high.
Finn had his seventh birthday today. He wanted to stay six, however.
A StreetDowntown That was my favorite street sign in the Bay Area. But I think the one below, which I snapped this weekend on the way back from Mount Hood with the girls and their two little ones takes the cake.
…is always 30 minutes late, give or take. Why don’t they just change the schedule to reflect that it takes 4 hours? Then they’d be early sometimes.
I woke up to snow this morning. It was beautiful. I sat in Bauhaus from 7am on, working, watching the snow fall around the Space Needle and the Olympic Mountains across Puget Sound. OK, I couldn’t see the Olympics, but I knew they were there. With snow, I had an…
Today was my first meeting with the product team where that one individual didn’t make any disparaging remarks. OK, not true. It’s just that the disparaging remarks were directed at someone not in the room with us, instead of me. Which is a distinct improvement. We’ll see if this keeps…
Five+ months at Microsoft. I haven’t worked this hard since I came within a day of billing 300 hours one month at MoFo. I learned that month that more hours just led to more pain in my wrists. There’s no end in sight here. My wrists hold up better, because…
Some Postal Service somewhere lost a package I sent to Denmark in early December with a handful of dad’s old comics. I didn’t insure it, because eBay buyers don’t seem to like paying for insurance. Which makes perfect sense for them, because eBay’s terms require that I self-insure if shipping…
Last Sunday, before Heather left for the last time, we went to a few open houses near my apartment. They were all either very very small, very very dark, or very very expensive. Dark and expensive don’t work for me so if I want to buy an apartment, it will…
