The other half has the vacation write up, so I shall just provide some photos. [...] » Read more

We drove up to Ashland this past Friday to attend the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, since we both needed the R&R away from our computers for a weekend. I’d driven through Ashland before on my way from Seattle to Oakland, and thought it to be one of those quaint towns where we could spend a day [...] » Read more

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The vacation, once it got started, was nice. I sat on the beach (getting burned on the very first day), was actually able to appreciate the warm ocean water, and found the weather much to my liking. We also spent a day in Charleston looking at old houses. Most importantly I hopefully didn’t [...] » Read more

My sisters seem to think I’m grumpy the rest of the time, hence the expression they sculpted on my gingerbread counterpart. Well, if it was Christmas year round, that frosting frown would be upside down. Merry Christmas! [...] » Read more

I spent Thanksgiving in Hawaii, and it wasn’t a great vacation. We should have been warned by the presence of Demonchild, a toddler with a misleadingly angelic countenance who, on the flight out, made a horrible non-stop bleating/sheep getting killed noise straight from the depths of hell itself. Then on the first [...] » Read more

This morning, I was for the first time wide awake during the train ride from Seattle to Vancouver. And the scenery inspired me to grab my laptop and start a stream of consciousness thing: Foggy. Visibility is less than a hundred feet. It is high tide, and the shoreline is often no more [...] » Read more

On vacation. Went down to California again for a long weekend to visit Susan, where we went out for a couple of birthday dinners, spent most of the rest of the time relaxing, watching TV, and otherwise not doing much. This was very much needed downtime after finally getting the [...] » Read more

The trip was fun. The highlight was of course the two and a half days of climbing at Red Rock. Alas, we didn’t experience a variety of climbs – when we got there we found the majority of the intermediate routes (5.9, 5.10a) were lead-only routes with bolts at least 15 feet apart, requiring [...] » Read more

Yeah, that’s all I do – haul ass without any style. More pictures from last week in Skaha. [...] » Read more