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What I Learned Over Christmas Vacation

  1. try to get a direct flight if you are flying with a 2 year old
  2. If you can’t get a direct flight, try to optimize for short flights with long layover rather than short layover and long flights
  3. If you can’t or didn’t do that, make sure you have purchased a season or two of your child’s favorite show for watching on the ipad in flight
  4. Be prepared for people to be upset at your kid
  5. If you lose your ID on a trip, you can use other cards (and your family) to vouch for you. The price you pay for this is a TSA agent swinging his penis around so you know he’s in charge

We flew to Oklahoma to visit my wife’s dad. It was a fun trip and really neat to see flat lands once again. It can get a little claustrophobic living amongst the foothills, here. But it was also dry and cold and there was no green left in the world. We were all happy to come back to west of the Cascades where things are still green. We missed some rain and mist, and came back in time for the start of some sunny winter weather. Huzzah!

Still running, and am working my way up to a half marathon in March. Glad to live in the Pacific Northwest where it’s possible to train outside all year long!

Lastly, I purchased a new domain and am looking to migrate this site. Am tired of having a vaguely porn-sounding domain name. I will keep you appraised as things develop.

Mount Rainier



Mount Rainier, originally uploaded by Brimley.

Mount Rainier is one of the most impressive things I have ever seen. It looms on the horizon like a strange and silent god.

The mountain isn’t always apparent. It disappears depending on the haze and distance, so you forget there’s this huge thing sitting around. And then on a clear day you suddenly notice it there. You wonder how it could have remained hidden — it’s too big to be easily lost, yet it was invisible just a day ago.

It doesn’t help knowing that when it finally erupts it could potentially kill millions of people.

Link: My hometown is better than yours

My wife linked me to this article about Seattle. It’s all true.

I like the idea that it’s sunset for 12 hours a day. Absolutely true, that. Basically it’s golden hour all day — which is probably why it looks gorgeous to me all the time.

We do have some cloud-cover where we are right now (Issaquah, about 20 minutes East of Seattle), but we’re far enough away from the coast and into the foothills that I think our area misses a lot of it. Either that or global warming is burning it all off.

It’s pretty much perfect here. I may get kicked out for saying that.

Not to go on about Washington

but man this place is weird. I’m learning I have preconceptions, expectations, and prejudices about certain things that just don’t work out here. I’m having to come up with an entirely new model for people.

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