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House
After a few months of stress and effort, the grand House Project of 2014 is finally over. We've moved into a new house (still in West Seattle about a mile from the old house) and after much toil, have a lovely comfortable place to live. With the Pumpkin moving to Seattle for school in the fall, we will have a full house and the new place has much ( Read more... ) -
April Showers
My mother has been in the hospital for over a week. She had a 'mild' heart attack last week--I'm not sure why anyone would use the phrase 'mild' with 'heart attack', but that's what they said. She's had cardiac problems for 25+ years starting with endocarditis and progressing to coronary artery disease that was treated with bypass open-heart about ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts on Carl
Looking back on my childhood, probably the single most influential television show was Carl Sagan's Cosmos. While I ended up in a career that is more being an engineer than a scientist, the original show sparked a deep interest in the scientific method, the wonders of the universe, and a strong secular viewpoint on politics and history. I wouldn't ( Read more... ) -
House Update
We've spent most of the past 4 days painting away in the new place. It's twice the space of the current house with much higher ceilings, so it's a lot of work. Still, it's looking better every day. For my first house, I spent 6-8 weeks working away on it before having a housewarming party. This time I'm not doing the work alone, but having to ( Read more... ) -
Home, Mark II
We officially closed on our new house today. It's double the space we have now, which is good since Pumpkin is moving up here in the Fall to live with us. My little 1000 sq ft house has been good to me the past 7 years, but it's already cramped with two adults and a toddler ( Read more... ) -
V Day Update
So our house renovation plans didn't survive contact with the bank... or rather the appraisers. They would have done it, but we'd have to come up with double the down payment we had planned. So, instead... we bought a new house. We are out $20k and a lot of my brother's time, but bridge. water. under. Instead, we will be landlords cuz we are going ( Read more... ) -
2006
I was originally thinking of posting a one-line "Meh." as a joke, but that wouldn't in fact be fair to 2006...
2006 started off with a boondoggle speaking at a Microsoft conference held on a cruise to Cozumel with jeliza as my guest. In March I went to Chicago to play the finale of Living Force with the people who I had primarily played with online. Was ( Read more... ) -
Happy New Year, 2014
2014. Really? I would've thought we'd be traveling by hover board by now...
Anyhow, 2013 has been another crazy busy year--if I was more hip, I’d have said ‘cra cra’. Most of my blogging energy has gone to my work blog, my CodePlex projects (1, 2, 3, and 4), and posting a bunch of stuff to MSDN Code Gallery, but most of my work life the past year ( Read more... ) -
Project Xerxes: Second Annual Report
Professor X turned 2 today.
Sunday we had two birthday parties in the morning for his peers and the evening for our friends. A few folks came from his daycare (which is impressive because he goes to an Eastside daycare and we live in West Seattle!?!?!). The split let us fit everyone in our house, make sure the baby got a nap, and gave us a chance ( Read more... ) -
Summer in Seattle
Summer as expected has been non-stop craziness. cuddlyeconomist was out of town four times in the past two months on various trips so I was solo with Professor X a fair amount. Daycare kept me sane, but it was still a lot of work. How the heck do single working parent's survive? His birthday is Monday, and most of tomorrow will be spent in various celebrations ( Read more... )