Category Archives: Random Thoughts

Today I drove from Tiburon California to Kelso Washington, which is about 700 miles. It was a really long drive, and it got me about 130 miles from my home. I would have kept driving, but it started snowing. When semi’s started passing me aggressively, I decided I was not a macho man, and I […]

Yesterday I flew down to San Francisco. Last time I stayed for over a month. This time it’s barely more than a day. I’m helping Courtenay pack up some stuff from her storage closet and drive her car up to Seattle. She visited for 17 days, and I convinced her to move to Seattle. That […]

By “sick” I mean after swimming I slept the rest of the day. I just got up to get some food and consider running at Gold’s, but instead I’m going back to bed. By “president”, I mean, President Elect Barack Obama. Who is currently being stalked by a bunch of paparazzi, and Rachel Ross on […]

  Seattle has had the best winter storm of my lifetime (a quarter century). The airports are cancelling flights, so my friends are stuck in town. There’s enough snow that I can’t see pavement within a 1 block radius of my house, and the pavement I see on the highway is just two ruts through […]

I’m snowed in by a whopping 1 inch of snow that ‘s caused the entire City of Seattle to shut down. Aside from no swimming today, that meant a run in the snow, an indoor bike ride, and some quiet time at home to notice some little things going on around me. This is a […]

Mmm…. I just had a very small scoop of delicious egg nog ice cream. At 4:45 in the evening, this may have been a mistake. While I knew from the ingredients that the nog is around 20 proof, it seemed to me that once it was frozen it would be less potent. Wrong. This stuff […]

It’s supposed to snow a bunch in Seattle tonight, which is super exciting. We rarely get snow here, and when we do, the entire city shuts down. I know it’s going to stick because the last few days have been unusually cold with clear skies. Mount Rainier was crystal clear form my house, and so […]

Here’s a short rant about the only genre of food I completely despise. I hate Chinese food, but the other night after watching the Garfield High School Swim Team kick Ballard High School’s butt I found myself agreeing to eat the stuff rather than being a drag on the group. By group I mean Courtenay, […]

It’s always easy to see when I’ve been studying pretty hard. I have a tendency to run my fingers through my hair until it sticks straight out – afro style. I’m finishing up all the backlog of work I have due for the last day of the quarter, which is tomorrow. This includes, 2 case […]

Two nights ago on the daily show I saw an interview with Arianna Huffington, “a blogging evangelist” who wrote some book about how to be a great blogger. I don’t normally pay much attention to the interviews (and this was no exception), but I did hear her say that the key to a great blog […]