Archive for February, 2008

Happy anniversary, Western

Feb. 24, 1893: Washington Gov. John McGraw approved the charter for the state’s third public teacher-training school, the New Whatcom Normal School in Bellingham.
Over the years, the school changed its name several times, becoming Western Washington State College of Education in 1937 and Western Washington State College in 1961. In 1977 it was named […]

Random pictures…

taken with my iPhone.
1) Gian has been growing a beard. I think it looks good. He says is needs to fill in.

2) This was a dog we saw on the way to the library. It looked like a toy.

Give it a rest, Ralph

Several years ago, when I was in college, I voted for Ralph Nader. I believed in his abilities and ideologies and thought he would make a more decisive president than any of the Democrat or Republican candidates running. Then 2000 came and I felt like Ralph f**ked everything up for Al Gore. Now I read […]

Makes you wonder what they’re going to do with the left shoe.

The Seattle Times ran an odd article on three shoes that have washed up on shore in Vancouver. The odd part of the story is those shoes contained feet! Yikes!!!

Busy times!

Well, Gian and I are slowly getting settled at our new place. It’s still a mess, but it’s coming together as each day passes. Tonight is a hectic night at work, with both the drag show and HUB Crawl happening (one right after the other, so I’ll be here until 1:00 a.m.). This weekend, we […]

When is enough, enough?

This move has had so many problems. The closing took four hours (they normally take 20 minutes), moving in was delayed because the flooring installers ran into a few problems (they were able to correct them, it just is taking an extra day). Luckily, in a day or so, we should be in our new […]

moving

We only have a couple more days in our old house. Today, we went through signing, which was a nightmare. Everything that could go wrong did. Luckily, the wonderful folks at Galvin Realty Group (the escrow company) were smart and attentive and fixed everyone else’s mistakes! Now, a couple more days, and we’ll have […]