Little Si Hike

Made a morning hike to summit of Little Si. Great fun! I was planning on doing Mt. Si but a friend suggested doing Little Si first. Mt. Si is almost 4,000 feet elevation change while Little Si is only 1,400. Since it was the first hike of the season thought it best to start small. Glad we did! 1 1/2 hours up, 1/2 hour spent at the summit and 1 hour down. It's 5 miles round trip. Well worth it! Plan to go back soon! Here are the pictures and part of the GPS map I was able to do with my iPhone.


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This route starts at the halfway point at the back of the mountain. I wasn't certain I'd have signal or enough batter to do the entire route. FYI: Hiking burns 500 cal/hr!

Some pictures

Downtown Seattle Bank Robbed

Someone went into the 5th & union at WaMu bank, flashed a gun,
demanded money. Before leaving the left a package on a desk saying it
was a bomb. Police & FBI closed down a 2 block radius, evacuated the
building and brought in a bomb robot. Package turned out to be
nothing. Robber got away. Pic is from corner of 5th & Union st

What?

"What you laughin at?"

Updating Twitter Feed

So I'm trying to update my Twitter feed gadget in the right column. Make it more fun and active instead of the plain old text. Installed 2 I like. Probably let them simmer awhile to see which I like best.

Suppose I should post a picture of the house with all the lighting! Never did take a picture during the snow storms of last week! I think Dad might have one, have to check and see.

Full Commuter Train

Train to work this morning was standing room only. Doesn't help only 3
trains in the morning and icy roads. One more day till the long weekend.

Signs!

New signs at Seattle Center. Now don't they look familiar!

Seattle Center

Walkin around the Seattle Center looking at their new signs. Stopped
by the the fountain. Amazing how many tourist there are in Dec!

Walking Tour

Yesterday I spent the morning walking around downtown with my design consultant. We were doing site inspections to make sure the sign locations we picked on a map would actuall work with no obstructions. It was pretty chilly so I was glad that there is a Starbucks on almost every corner! ;)


After 4 months the project is actually starting to feel real instead of just a bunch of paper work! We got architiect renderings back earlier this week. Wish I could share those but best not to for now.

Morning!

The morning sunrise from Kent Station!  Good way to start the day, expecting rain by noon though.

The Planning!

Yes, it's that time of year. Time to dust of the boxes of Christmas decorations, inventory all the wreaths, bows and strings of lights; sans knots because last year was the year you organized! No? Yeah, me either. So I guess some time will be spent unwinding & unknotting.

As you can see the Engineer is in full effect. Planning down to the last foot of roof space! Griswold Family Christmas! Now the choice of standard mini icicle lights or LED? Power savings with the LED but more expensive and not as 'warm'. And yes I'm actually doing the energy calcs. Estimating 2000 actual lights plus some misc yard fauna! You just have to have a plastic Santa! Or maybe the very cool snow globe with moving figures inside!

Friday Funnies

Couple of YouTube videos that had me in tears! Enjoy!

Sneezing Panda

Jar of Dirt!

My office view in SD

Katie was nice enought to send a picture and note from wintery South Dakota:

 

This is what the first Blizzard of the year produced... SLUSH!  It is awful- the kind that seeps through your shoes into your socks.  There is NOTHING worse than wet socks...  I can't wait until it freezes into ruts, it will be fantastic!!!  =)  You can't tell from this picture but it is still coming down... it isn't quite sleet but not rain and it is COLD!  It is hard to believe that I wore capris and flippers to work on Monday!  Gotta love South Dakota!  I was kinda hoping for a good snowball fight but I guess I will have to wait.

Umbrella View

Monsoon season is finally here! This is what I like to call the 'umbrella view'!

Voting

Did the voting thing! Most people in WA vote mail-in absentee so my
polling place had no line. And being in the Burbs helps also.

Last Starbucks

So today is my last 'daily' Starbucks, I will no longer be getting a Starbucks everyday. Need to trim the spending and the calories! I'm getting fat! Wish me luck!

Holloween Greeters

The greeters for the Halloween Trick or Treats last night. Expecting a lot of kids to come by but not as many as showed up. Had to make an emergency run for another couple bags of candy or we'd have been out by 7 pm! The Bear's ghost costume worked great for just being a pillow case! Ya gotta like simple. The Griswold Family pumpkin on the other hand took 2 hours to carve! The pattern that came with the little 'Dracula' stand was way to intricate to cut all the way through the pumpkin so I had to do the shave technique. It turned out really well, too.

Pumpkin Carving

Carved the Griswald family pumpkin last night. Getting things ready
for the little 'trick or treators'. Have to go buy candy soon. Never
know how much to buy. Want to have enough not so much extra that I sit
around and eat it.

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Saw this on the corner of western & lenora. An umbrella blow inside
out. Would seem to be more approate for Chicago than Seattle. It does
make the place interesting.

Original Starbucks

Have another meeting with the Pike Place Market folks. Down here while all the vendors are getting ready for the day. Stopped into the original Starbucks to grab a mocha before the meeting.

Monday Mornings!

Witnessed a head colision this morning! No one was hurt severlly
thankfully! Great way to start the week!