Archive for the ‘Seattle’ Category

I woke up late today hoping to catch the Patriots-Jets game on TV, but the people in charge of my television seemed to have other ideas. To start with, there was only one early game on today: the Colts-Vikings game on CBS. For the late games, Fox got to show the Seahawks-49ers game, and CBS [...]

There was a parking enforcement vehicle parked outside my apartment two nights ago, and I can only assume that the person was walking around the neighborhood giving tickets. This wasn’t one of those little three-wheeler things you usually see; it was a full-blown truck with “Parking Enforcement” written on the side. I only noticed it [...]

When I moved to Seattle, I was pretty surprised to discover that nobody (and I mean nobody) has air-conditioned apartments or houses. I asked a few people about it, and their responses were always pretty similar, “You won’t need it. You’ll get, maybe, 2 days a year where you might have used it, and those [...]

You could generalize my attitude towards a lot of things by saying that I don’t like to cut corners. In reality, I honestly just don’t think it’s ever beneficial in the long run. Ever. Maybe you can save some money when you build a house by using a cheaper material for some of the exterior, [...]