A great evening for a bbq

A friend of mine just sent me a link to a cool webpage called Newseum which hosts the front pages of over 714 newspapers in the US and in 66 other countries. You can see a screenshot of some of the covers from Pennsylvania newspapers below.   Obviously they all have Obama on the front. and…

My office-mate and friend from work wrote a funny blog entry about the Iowa caucus and her surprise at how the process worked. As a former Political Science major, I understood the hilarity of the caucus system, but I truly wonder how many people outside of Iowa and New Hampshire actually understand what the caucus…

As a former high school soccer player and now a weekly co-ed league soccer player, I can tell you that the stunts that are being performed in this soccer video are done by "professional stuntmen" and should not be performed at home….. Check it out below.   Do you think it is real?  (Note: the music…

A picture from the game against the Sonics

I just got an email from Brandon Gillespie who owns the restaurant and wine bar Beato in West Seattle.   He is the husband of a good friend of my sister (in-law) – practically related…  8^)    He started Beato two years ago and now due to economic conditions, he has to close the doors for good…

I left work yesterday at 6:15pm and it was already pitch black.  The darkness made it feel like it was 10pm.  That’s no fun.   In addition, there was frost on the windows and windshield of my car this morning.   Do Seattle winters really consist of morning frost?   I guess I was fooling myself…