It’s been a busy couple of days and the work/life balance has swung a little far one way, but it’s done for now and I’m going to have most of the weekend off. A couple of nights ago I met some friends for a drink in Bellevue one evening, I’be been developing rather a taste for good IPA’s recently, and Monday night I tried a…
One more today…
Today got a little out of control with work,lots happened and it fell to me to close out some paperwork to get parts moving. As tough as my day has been it’s always nice to be missed by the guys, even if it is because I have the opposable thumb needed to use the tin opener.
A very disciplined Spurs…
I was not able to go to the Sounders-Colorado game at Qwest tonight, work got in the way of those plans. It was interesting to sit here listening to Arlo White calling an OK Sounder performance while tapping away on my laptop. Evens looked sharp initially, if he plays like this I can see why Sigi is so high on him. Montero finally got onto…
This morning…
I had an appointment before work this morning and was a little late leaving the house. This was the view out the front window, this really has been a wonderful place to live. While I am looking forward to the next stage of the wonderful adventure that life is, it’s mornings like this, as cold as it was, that make me take a moment and…
A big night under the lights…
Last year when Arsenal came to the Camp Nou in the Champions League quarter finals they got hammered, they were taken apart by a great Barcelona performance. This time was different, the stats show that Barcelona outclasses the London team, and that was not the reality. The pain may be greater because with 30 minutes left to play in the tie Arsenal held a 3-2…
Why I’ll miss the Pacific Northwest
I stopped in Central market to grab a couple of things for dinner tonight and saw how beautiful an evening it is.
Snatching an unlikely victory
There are a few things that have become clear from watching England in the Cricket World Cup. First, there is still some life left in the 50-Over format of the game. As much fun as the Twenty-20 slugfest can be to watch, the longer one-day game can produce drama and intrigue not present in the shortest version. Also looking at the runs being scored in…
Running of the geeks…
This weekend is Emerald City Comicon in Seattle, it’s a huge event taking over most of the downtown conference center. There were some good guests this year, Wil Wheaton was especially good. Picked up a couple of books, met a couple of people whose stuff I enjoy, including Max Brooks. Had a few laughs, good food, hung out with friends and let my inner geek…
Miss-spent adulthood perhaps?
Spent a couple of hours in a pool hall last night with friends, I’m not terribly good, but did win a couple of games so the trend is certainly in the correct direction. My mother always thought this would have been the sign of a miss spent youth, sorry mum… This was just what I needed at the end of a brutal, tiring week.
David’s first real test
The last couple of weeks have been by far the biggest for the coalition government in London. The Libyan uprising has not only been David Cameron’s first big foreign policy test, but his reactions to it have not been great. The last couple of weeks have found the raised a lot of questions about the coalition. Cameron was on tour with arms manufacturers and the…