I arrived in Seattle at 11pm last night. Was at my car a little after midnight and began the slow drive home in the snow. Most sections of road were warm enough to be remain rather wet, but 520 had a nice layer of slush across it. Having already taken so many hours in traveling, I decided that I had no desire to falter at the finish line and ( Read more... )

Back from the trip to Pullman. Friday night included country swing dancing, which is even less of a dance than meringue. I ended up putting more effort into dancing dances that I already knew. But I was in Idaho, so only part of New England is left to visit ( Read more... )

Well for all of my days where I just analyze and make small tweaks, it is nice for a quick run like today. I needed a tool to estimate memory latencies between numa nodes. After a survey around work, I just wrote my own. There is always a pleasant satisfaction when something compiles and works and it was doubly nice when drawing board to finish ( Read more... )

This past weekend I traveled back to Cincinnati for the national Iaido seminar. And spent some time with family. Now I'm back to, I was going to say dreary Seattle, but I looked out my window and could only see blue skies and sunshine ( Read more... )

With summer upon us, the mountains demand to be climbed. I've done a couple of hikes so far, but many more remain. This past night I dreamed of the most prominent one, Mt Rainier. The dream didn't take me very far, but the idea was not what climbing the mountain was like, but rather the commitment to be climbing ( Read more... )

I've put together a couple of my favorite photos from my trips. The basic theme is blue skies.

Facebook: Blue Skies

Otherwise I gave another good presentation for work. Nothing else of major interest.

I don't think the past week existed. I don't remember much of what happened, only the notion of being quite busy. And my journals are strangely silent on the matter ( Read more... )

In random news item 1: the Cincinnati Reds retain the lead of NL Central after defeating the Cardinals in their 2 game series. However, I still dislike the NLC as it always is a very competitive division (19-8 is only worth a 2 game lead over 2 teams). I would be happy about the AL West's weakness except that is lead by the Mariners. *Sigh ( Read more... )

I flew standby for the first time in my life and it manage to cut 6 hours of my travel plans today. Instead of arriving now, I arrived 6 hours ago. Unfortunately, this created some difficulty with being picked up. :-/ But for the better, I got to see Seattle be sunny outside! Wow! And then I was really hyper, which I blamed on the sheer ( Read more... )