Arctangential

I took some pictures of my house the other day and I figured people might want to see them. I put them up on Flickr because I really like that thing where you can tag different parts of the pictures. Here they are:

My Computer Work Area

My TV Area

Where I keep all my tools

That was interesting.

This photopost goes out to Conrad, who requested the pictures of this wonderful shop that I drive by on a regular basis:

First, the sign out front:

Then two views of the building itself:

On the way back from the trip to photograph this monstrosity of a building, I ran across this car:

And finally, a picture of Puget Sound: (actually taken by Meg some time ago, but I really like it so I am sharing it here)

Time for a photopost! Click for bigger! Yay!

First, here is a business card that Meg got while out at lunch. A nice gentleman gave it to her and while she isn’t in need of his services, she did keep it for me to see, bless her heart.

This weekend, we went to the Space Needle and did some other typical Seattle tourist crap. Here’s the Olympias from the Space Needle:

Here’s the Space Needle from below, at night: (also a little bit crooked)

And finally, the Experience Music Project, some kind of crazy music museum. We didn’t go there, but this is a picture of the building.

Meg and I went to the Woodland Park Zoo on Saturday, as it was a nice day out and we like to see the fancy animals. I took some pictures, which I feel pressed to share at Flickr.

So I’m finally unpacked. It’s been almost exactly a month since the movers came. Being a big giant nerd, I for course took pictures of what I felt was a fairly impressive amount of boxes, and other crap, so I will share them.

In Flickr.

Some of this stuff I’m going to keep, some of it I’m going to try to sell on eBay or give away to the goodwill, and the rest will probably yet make it into the trash. Should be a fun few weeks. I’ll probably post a bunch of eBay links in here too, so keep your eyes open.

I finished Moonlight and Vines this weekend, while on vacation in Canada. It was OK, I guess, although I find de Lint’s writing to be repetitive in a cloyingly nonspecific way, and reading a collection of short stories really intensified that for me.

Meg and I spent the weekend in Canada, Saturday in Toronto and Sunday in Niagara Falls. Some highlights:

• We went to see the CN Tower, from the top of which I took three typical pictures.
• We went to the Ontario Science Center, which was pretty cool.
• I finally got to have poutine, at this place called Harvey’s. It was real real good.
• Of course we went to see Niagara Falls, and once again I took the typical picture.
• And finally, we spent some time at Casino Niagara, where I won a not inconsiderable amount of money.

Overall, it was a pretty fun trip.

I am now reading the 5th (and final!) book in Thomas Easton’s Organic Future series, Seeds of Destiny. It’s not really all that good.

Still reading. Still long.

Here is the second hyacinth to bloom in my front yard: (It’s pink!)

I am still reading They Made America. It is still very long. I still haven’t finished it. Today over dinner I read the section about Thomas Edison.

I had another flower bloom out front this weekend, a hyacinth:

And this is all that’s left of the croci:

Kinda sad.

On Saturday, Meg and I went geocaching. We went once before but were unable to find the cache. We had better luck this time, finding the cache in a pile of rocks:

It was a lot of fun. I hope to do it again soon.

This book I am reading is REALLY long, so I can’t yet report that I finished it. I do have other interesting news though.

This weekend’s mini snowstorm killed all of my front-lawn plants, but I did get a picture of the second set of croci before they died:

In the mail today I got one of those missing children fliers. I usually look at them for a minute just in case I recognize one of the kids. This time, however, one of the ads caught my eye for a different reason:

Now I don’t want to make jokes about somebody’s missing child or anything but this really seems incredibly futile and really a waste of time. I know that people will do whatever they can to find them, but I don’t see how anyone could have thought that circulating a grainy, blurry, overblown photo of an infant would help anybody find anything. The child is 3 years old now, so even if the picture was recognizable it wouldn’t help anybody find the kid. I wish these people the best, but I really wish that they could have made room for a real listing instead of this.

Also, “Athol, ID”.

Some of you may remember last year when some weird flowers sprung up unexpectedly from my front lawn. Well, they’re back. Yesterday I took this picture:

And then this morning they had bloomed quite nicely:

There are some more shoots coming up, I will dutifully post pictures of them as they bloom, too.

(All pictures are click for bigger.)