So, I woke up this morning with a bloody nose. I'm pretty sure it's because of the heater being on constantly for the past week or so, but I seriously hope it's not a portent of how the month will go. Of course, last month I woke up on the first in Toronto, which is of course unusual in the grand scheme of things, and it heralded my weirdest ( Read more... )

To absolutely no one's surprise, this month was the wettest month ever recorded in Seattle.

I think I ought just grow gills ...

So, it took 3.5 hours to get home yesterday. (On a normal day? Half an hour.)

But I dragged myself into work, because they have not seen fit to give me a laptop.

No-one else is here assigning me anything to do.

More time to write!

Downtown is totally and completely overrun with Packers fans.

Uh, Alex, call your minions back to your part of the country. Your mother doesn't need to be sending advance men quite this early.

There's a Lush going in at Westlake!

I've only waited, oh, ten years for them to put one somewhere that doesn't take all day to get there and back ...

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I survived the flight. More details later.

It's snooooooooooowing!

(That's the sound my teeth make against the paneer that snug into my saag aloo at lunch.)

In other news, we're off for the Great Frozen North this evening.

During my merry chase around downtown, I ran into a couple teams from a corporate Amazing Race knock-off. There wasn't a snowball's chance that these were the real thing -- bright yellow vests, the clues didn't look right, and most importantly, there's absolutely nothing at 3rd and Pike of interest ( Read more... )