Out of the Blue

Category: Life

  • Yixing Hunt

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    Sarah and I drink a lot of roasted oolong tea, and we\’re starting to think we should find a yixing clay teapot to devote to the category. Tea wisdom suggests that brewing the same kind of tea in a clay pot time after time will help bring out aspects of the tea that you don\’t…

  • The Great Email Winnowing

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    Today and yesterday I tackled my Gmail inbox: at least 6000 messages from the past eight years.

  • Vancouver 2012

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    This year, instead of buying each other Christmas presents, Sarah and I decided to plan a trip to Vancouver. We found a Groupon for a nice hotel, and bought round-trip train tickets, and the night before leaving, we packed….

  • Snow in Seattle

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    I had almost despaired of getting any good snow this winter. Saturday teased us with a brief flurry in Wallingford, which dropped about an inch on the plastic chairs outside of Irwin\’s Bakery. Monday sent more snow at us, and for a day the tantalizing possibility of \”Snowmageddon\” hung in the air, before being downgraded.…

  • Afterglow

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    Seattle is still shining, the towers lit up by sunlight across the Sound. It\’s dusk here at the apartment, but Seattle has a straight shot to the West, past the Olympics. Our view of the Sound is blocked by the hill. We got engagement photos shot in a park there on Queen Anne Hill as…

  • Mountainous Thoughts

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    One of the great things about our apartment is that we have an excellent view of Mt. Rainier. On clear days it provides a nice backdrop to the skyscrapers. Even on cloudy days we can often see the snowy lower slopes beneath the overcast. I was wondering to myself why this was possible in Seattle,…

  • Engaged!

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    As of October 25th, 2009, Sarah and I are engaged to be married. We proposed to each other early in the morning on a beach on Puget Sound, and exchanged simple hammered bands of sterling silver. This was the culmination of a camping trip to Deception Pass State Park, a beautiful landscape of rugged cliffs…

  • Halloween 2009

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    Halloween was pretty awesome this year. We went to a farm to get apples, which we made into juice upon our return. On the drive back we saw a bunch of kids in crazy costumes. Little ladybugs, princesses, and giraffes. The highlight was two parents who dressed up as bunny rabbits; the kid who sat…

  • Technology Update

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    Fireplaces are perhaps the cleverest invention yet. Soon I will have to get an axe so that I can split more kindling. Another clever invention: the axe.

  • Early Seattle Photosets

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    Pictures have finally arrived! Two photosets: one from moving and getting settled; the other from a picnic to Gas Works Park. They are taken with my lovely new Nikon d90. After a long time drooling over DSLR cameras, now I finally have one. So I may post more pictures than usual. [ Moving to Seattle…