This morning, I can see the snow-capped Olympic Mountains clearly from the windows of Bauhaus coffee shop just a few blocks from my apartment. There’s barely a cloud in the pale blue sky. The weather today is not, however, representative of the past 15 days. According to the local papers,…
I spent $8 on parking yesterday, because the two motorcycle parking spots in front of my dentist’s office were taken by a car. A police car. Not even Seattle PD, mind you, but Federal Way, a city way to the south. I was annoyed but late, so I went for…
It still doesn’t exorcise my guilt over not voting in 1994. Not after volunteering 80 hours per work for Del Vecchio for Congress in 1996, not after contributing and voting for decade following. But we finally hit the Republicans.
I have recently been unable to resist my old Civilization III addiction–I’ve played the past few weekends. But this morning, I finally took a scissors and destroyed the CD. No more Civ for me.
I’ve been spending an insane amount of time on eBay recently (my name there is mao.public), posting my dad’s comic book collection from the 1940s. We all thought this would be a great way of liquidating his various collections, except for the stamp collection which was simply too large. I’m…
That was the word from KUOW traffic this morning. No accidents to speak of. Just rain. Rain? Rain snarls traffic in a region where there are seven months of rain? What did I get myself into? I take the Sounder 545 Express Bus to work. I started by loading my…
UPDATE: 5-DEC-06Finally got a refund. UPDATE: 29-NOV-06I sent this lamp back nearly a month ago. Verilux still has not refunded me for the lamp. UPDATE: 12-NOV-06I forwarded my blog entry to Verilux. They called the lamp’s failure after one day totally unacceptable and offered to send me a new bulb…
Over two months ago, I was headed off to Alki Beach to take photos of the setting sun reflecting off the mirrored glass of Seattle’s skyline. I didn’t get very far: a teenage driver in an SUV (with three of his teenage friends) made a left turn directly in front…
Recently, I wrote about how we had packed P******’s office with chairs as a practical joke. So, our entire group was also about to undergo an office shuffle (it was supposed to happen today, actually, but it got canceled). But before P******* even got back from his business trip, he…
It’s been one year and one day since Joe passed. It was yesterday, around 10am. Chanel and I spent a good part of the past two days cleaning out Joe’s basement office. It seems like he saved every scrap of paper he scribbled on over the past thirty years. He…
