A Seattle police officer was shot while sitting in a parked car with the new officer he was training on Halloween night. His funeral procession will be rolling by shortly and I can see news and police helicopters out my window over Key Arena. Sometimes it's nice to be in the neighborhood where a lot of events are held. Sometimes, like today, it's ( Read more... )

Suddenly find myself giggling all over again about the sight from the other night. Two INCREDIBLY drunk rock'a'billy girls (there's lots of them here) on the sidewalks of Belltown. One had fallen out of her shoe. Between the two of them, and a lot of shrieking, they still couldn't remedy the shoe situation.

Today was spent reworking my resume and some other job hunt things. Little to no progress on the housing front, but I'm going to go scout a place out tomorrow, and possibly go talk to the place we were interested in before once monkeymodulator gets out of work.

Tonight we headed out to Seattle Net Tuesday for 'Non Profit Extreme Makeover' - basically geeks in a ( Read more... )

We made it! We're settling into Seattle. The drive was long but it's done! Driving through the mountains was cool. Also - Washington state has a huge chunk of desert!? How did I not know this!? It was pretty cool. monkeymodulator saw a coyote in a watering hole but sadly I missed it ( Read more... )

I have returned to civilization ( Read more... )

We've returned and mostly recovered from the red eye flight home. urban_exotic brough Miss Maxine home from Lansing for me so I got to get a couple hours of sleep.

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We made it after a massive delay to Seattle ( Read more... )

The relocation people finally got ahold of us. We're going on a scouting mission to Seattle the 27th - 30th. That'll be my first look at the city ever. Hope it's nice ( Read more... )

- Roger Clyne is coming to Ann Arbor in May. Think I might get tickets. Never been to the Ark ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday and Pre-Birthday to velvettnrbt and cjtremlett!

My agenda today:

- Hit the gym for the first time since I got sick
- Plan the content of my portfolio and figure out some Info Architecture for it
- Send my ID to the CHI conference (oops!)
- Clean out the fridge (eeeew.)
- Read some more of EverywareApparently some Orcas have been sighted in the sound ( Read more... )