There has been a lot of talk about the shootings in Tucson last weekend. It’s not the first time the world has been affected by senseless acts like this, and it certainly won’t be the last. There has been a lot of blame thrown around, the left blames the inflamed partisan rhetoric of the far right, the right says the left is wrong for making…
Big news!!!! To some…
It makes me unreasonably happy to hear, but filming will start later this year on the next Bond film (number 23 in the Eon series, it’s complex), and Daniel Craig is signed on the play Bond once more. I do like Craig’s version of Bond, I think it’s the closest to Ian Flemings Bond, slightly unsure, but outwardly cocky. It’s an interesting twist when compared…
Day-11
OK, this picture a day thing has made it to day 11 (like anyone noticed), it’s been fun to look for something new each day. Some are showing what’s going on, others may illustrate stories and some I may try to get creative with (or as creative as an manufacturing engineer gets) and have some fun. Today’s illustrates part of a story, I’ll fill in…
Revisiting Reindorp
I was unpacking and cleaning up the mess last week and came across an envelope my mother gave me a few years ago. I was surprised to see my school reports for primary (or elementary in the US) and secondary (equivalent of high) school. I’ve always said that I was an underachiever in most subjects at school and every report that came home said “could…
A senior moment…
I had one of those “moments” a couple of days ago, I was filling in my expenses and wondering why I don’t do a better job of preparing my recipts when I’m traveling with work. It passed eventually, but it was there for a long moment. I decided that I was ready once again to start acting like a proper mature, adult. Yeah I have…
Insignificant to some, great to others
The game is full of moments both great to many and utterly insignificant to most. Rickki Vilas goal against City, Liverpool winning the European Cup in Istanbul, Beckham scoring against Greece in injury time, Gerard’s hat trick against Germany (Oh, that night in Munich, it’s sad that it’s a dacde since England had somehting that big to celebrate, France and Bulgaria at St James Park…
Saki and sushi
Today I got invited to a saki tasting at Umi in Belltown with a couple of friends, and even better we had a designated driver. Of course if we’ve gone as a far as Umi we really had to have some sushi to go with the saki. A couple of flights of saki paired with a selection of nigri and a spicy tuna roll was…
Cats, love them or…
Today I got the guys some stuff, including new dry food. After the incident when they ate $10 of smoked salmon (my mistake) I figured I should get some nice food for them. They are old and deserve it. So after I opened the bag and poured it into the container Pud jumped in the drawer and was eating straight from the pile. I think…
She is a lying…
On Friday I got a bill for $613.35 from Frontier Communications. Interesting, it was in my name, but I had no idea who Frontier Communications are. It turns out the bill was for a Verizon service. OK, I once had a Verizon cell phone, but that was a long time ago. When I moved into the house there was a large Verizon modem in the…
Crossing the lake…
Last night I was driving from the Eastside into Seattle to meet some friends for Sushi and of course the traffic on the bridge was awful. Enjoyed a fun evening, are big pile of sushi and enjoyed a fun evening. On the way home I got rear-ended in the Land rover. The Honda that hit me was far worse off, but no one was hurt,…