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The Events that are: My Life

Things that go on in my life that cannot be catagorized somewhere else, sort of a catch-all

For the week of 2009-09-06 in Tweets

  • Psychological Profiling Via Twitter: http://bit.ly/a4ztf
    of interesting #
  • Psychological Profiling Via Twitter: http://bit.ly/gKFIq
    …kind of interesting #
  • ran 1.99 mi on 8/31/2009 at 5:20 AM with a pace of 7'35"/mi
    http://bit.ly/1nNiWA #
  • Windows 7 works pretty well, so far…definitely better than Vista. #fb #
  • is looking at his first pay stub as a Real Working Man™ and relishing all those digits #fb #
  • ran 2.17 mi on 9/3/2009 at 4:32 PM with a pace of 8'30"/mi
    http://bit.ly/xLxLq #
  • Strongly believes that I shouldn't have to pay for other peoples poor life choices. If you agree, please post this as your status. #fb #
  • is at #PAX #
  • is at #PAX #fb #
  • #PAX was awesome. Disappointed @wilw wasn't at the The Guild Season 2 screening 🙁 #
  • anybody know what the highest scoring Boston College football game is? #
  • Answer: 78-0 against St. Anselm on 9/20/1941 #
  • setting up ubuntu and boxee on the media server #
  • going to see #District9 at 10:20 at Northgate…anyone else want to come? #fb #
  • RT @bramcohen: In Japan, an MRI costs $98 http://bit.ly/2jZKfn #
  • installing shelves #

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Trace Bundy at The Triple Door

Jen invited a bunch of people to go see her brother-in-law, Trace Bundy, perform at the Triple Door last night. I finally decided to go see him after Jen explained that he was an engineer1 and that I would absolutely love him2.

The show was amazing. Trace’s fingering is exciting to watch, even for someone who can’t play a single chord.

From media.www.collegian.com:

Seeing Trace Bundy perform songs such as “Adapt” and “Dueling Ninjas” live is to experience a swift musical kick to the head. The listener will often leave the show confused, not being able to comprehend how one man can do that with just a guitar.

If you didn’t get a chance to see last nights show, Trace will be back at The Triple Door on January 27th. In the mean time, enjoy this clip of “Dueling Ninjas”:

  1. He also went to CU Boulder too! ↩

  2. those weren’t her exact words, but you get the idea ↩

For the week of 2009-08-30 in Tweets

  • when is a nda a pia? #fb #
  • coffee's ability to make everything okay never ceases to amaze me. #fb #
  • A fire alarm really? What time is it? WTF?! #fb #
  • RT @rebekkaanne: … I-5 closed at northgate due to a sniper! #
  • is downloading Windows 7 Pro x64. Thx to @audreyln for the MSDN heads up. #fb #
  • is working on a Saturday. At least I can do it from home. #fb #
  • Delphi MyFi XM2Go Satellie Radio – $30/OBO http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/ele/1349004899.html #fb #
  • …burning Windows 7 to DVD! #

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Running

One of the great things about my new place is how close I am to Green Lake. One of my goals for coming back to Seattle and being in The Real World™ is to exercise. I tried it a year ago with CrossFit, and had mixed success. I was able to find the time to do it, but I didn’t have any idea of what I was doing. This may have contributed to my numb hand incident last year, which I eventually was resolved with a little bit of PT, however I had lost my exercise momentum.

But, this is a new year! And it would be a shame to waste Green Lake’s paths at 5am in the morning. Running seems like a pretty easy thing that I already know how to do (no special training required, although I did run track for a season back In The Day™). So I get up, drag my self out of bed (sometimes with the assistance of Ben or Quinn, who have each run with me once – although Quinn did it with me on a mid-Sunday morning), and run.

I ran two days last week and did not get around the lake either time. I ran yesterday with Quinn and today by myself and managed to get around both times1! The sun has barely started to rise and the air is nice and cool, making for ideal running conditions (for me at least).

run_ready20080909 If I can keep this up for the rest of the week, I’m planning on getting a Nike + iPod gadget that links my shoe to my iPod. My iPod will then be able to give me real time feedback on how far I’ve run, my pace, time elapsed, calories burned, etc…all to music! Anyone have any experience using the Nike + iPod and want to weigh in on it’s effectiveness?

Anyway, most mornings I’m out the door by 5:05am. If anyone wants to run with me, meet me in front of my building. If you know for sure that you want to run, try to give me a heads up the day before so I can let you know if I’m running or not the next morning.

Hopefully I can stick with this.

  1. getting around is not the problem, getting around in time to get ready for work so I can catch the carpool is the problem ↩

Catch Me If You Can

I went to see Catch Me If You Can on Thursday with a friend from school, Kate Reinking, who was in Seattle for part of this week. I have to say, it was a pretty amazing musical.

First things first though; if you are even thinking about seeing it, you need to go right now. Stop reading this blog and get your tickets ASAP because it closes on Sunday…which is in just over 24 hours.

No really…get your tickets now.

The cast is amazing, especially Norbert Leo Butz as Carl Hanratty (see video clip below – RSS/email readers may need to click through to see the video).

Also quite outstanding are Aaron Tveit as Frank Abagnale, Jr. and Kerry Butler as Brenda Strong. This is not to say that everyone else sucks, quite the contrary, it’s a stellar cast that is downright fantastic.

The show is a bit on the meta side, acknowledging the orchestra, the set, and the crowd at various points. I’m not usually a fan of such meta realizations, but it works pretty effectively in this case.

I do have one question though, is FBI Agent Johnny Dollar (played by Brandon Wardell) a nod to freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar?

Also, now that I’m back in Seattle, one thing I would like to do more is catch more of local theater scene – Seattle has had some pretty amazing musical come here before they hit Broadway. So if anyone wants to go…let me know. And really, I’d go to Mariner games, and Sounders FC games, and perhaps even Seahawk games. I guess it’s really just the Seattle cultural scene that I’d like to enjoy now that I’m actually here.

Catch Me If You Can logo © 5th Avenue Theater

The Apartment

As I suspected, we were approved without issue and will be moving in on Monday! As in two days! Both rooms are about the same size. Room A is slight smaller, has less closet space, but has two windows. Room B is slightly bigger, has more closet space, but only one window. Jeff and I flipped for rooms, and I got room A, leaving Room B to Jeff.

As I was leaving, I took a quick glance at the mailboxes to find where our would be. I recognized one of the names: “Jalbert/Skilling.” As it turns out, one of my friends from high school, Celeste, lives in the apartment right above us. How amazing? Unfortunately, they’ll be moving out at the end of the month, so our co-tenancy will be short lived.

Anyway, I’ll probably start moving in Monday after work. Jeff will start moving in Tuesday morning. I’m sure we’ll have some sort of housewarming party in the near future.

A Place To Live

After all of four days of searching, we found a place to live! I’ll be living with my good friend Jeff, who will be attending law school at the University of Washington in the fall. It’s in a nice section of Greenlake not far from where the work VanPool would pick me up. In fact, I think it’s the perfect location: walking distance to the VanPool and walking distance to Greenlake.

We put down our holding deposit and will get the official word on Wednesday.

In total, we looked at four places: one condo (as a rental), one house, and two apartments.

Flying Home

I’m flying home today. Right now, in fact. My plane is due to touch down in Seattle at 2:21pm local time.

Feel free to track my progress: United Airlines flight 945 from Frankfurt to Chicago (9 hours) and United Airlines flight 929 from Chicago to Seattle (4.5 hours).

And it all started here, Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport…
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…62 days ago.

See you on the flip side.

Dateline: Berlin, Day 2 — Sandeman Tour, Again

Berlin, Germany
31 July 2009

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