this weekend turned out alright after all. after a lackluster friday, it looked as though saturday would have to rock something fierce in order to carry the weight for the whole weekend ( Read more... )

tonight is the last night i'll call this house a home.

( I wrote this on the plane. )

well folks, it's been quite the ride. fourteen weeks ago tomorrow to the day, i arrived in seattle for what i thought would be the summer of my life. i was right ( Read more... )

my chair at work broke. it leaned back, and didn't come back. now, i look really lazy because i'm always reclining.

We missed our mark. It becomes increasingly difficult to finish what alcohol is left in the apartment if you go out and buy more. Don't lose faith. It will get done. It has to ( Read more... )

It's hard to get any work done with the Blue Angels doing fly-by's of the building every few minutes. At work, I have essentially become a consultant to my project. No one else bothered to slog through the complicated deployment process and put all the pieces together. Now that they have to, I am nothing short of their savior. They're even thinking ( Read more... )

I submit that nothing beats a good barbeque. My manager threw a going away party tonight at his house in Lake Forest Park. It’s evident that Amazon is taking care of him (or was) because his house was awesome. Tri-level, built into a hill, flagstones everywhere, backyard encircled by a crystal clear stream and tall evergreens. Money ( Read more... )

less than 3 weeks. crazy. i mean, i love my job, it's great and i've been kicking more and more ass at it as time goes on. plus, i get to have conversations like this with other interns on the company instant messanger (names have been removed to protect the guilty ( Read more... )

I didn't feel like transcribing the long, awesome tale of last night's debauchery. The last few days have been good. Steve's parents are in town, and have been wining and dining him and I'm just along for the ride. Between two dinners, a baseball game, and an underground tour, I estimate they've spent over $200 on me alone. Eating at these ( Read more... )