by admin | May 31, 2012 | Working Daze
I read an interesting article a couple days a go about the hiring frenzy here in Seattle. Yes, unemployment in some sectors is still alarmingly high. Yet in others, there is a huge shortage and the big boys in town whose names are all too familiar, are pillaging the...
by admin | May 30, 2012 | Randomalities
I went to Folklife this past Saturday. I haven’t been in a while. Part of that reason was I was being held captive in Florida by love gone wrong. When it finally ended up right, I came back to the homeland. I arrived just in time for Folklife. I have always...
by admin | May 29, 2012 | Life Lessons
I used to love the TV series, Time Tunnel. By today’s standards, with all the whiz bang magic CGI programmers can do, it looks a bit primitive. But as a kid, it was so exciting the relive history as Tony and Doug made their way through time, trying to find their...
by admin | May 28, 2012 | Defies Description
It’s my birthday today. Thanks to Facebook, many of you already know that. I expect that my 54th year on this planet will be just as adventurous as the last. Certainly, it is starting out that way as I sit here at my old computer, about to get into my pirate...
by admin | May 25, 2012 | Children
I learned a couple weeks ago that, assuming everything goes smoothly, I will be a, ahem, grandfather. Well, let me rephrase that. My daughter will be having a baby in October and I will be its, uhm, well… I have never prepared for this possibility, largely...
by admin | May 24, 2012 | Life Lessons
I have always loved strong women. Not just in the Biblical way, but I admire them in all walks of life, whether they are involved with me or not. I guess I can blame my mother for that. No, not in some Oedipus Complex manner. She was strong by necessity, as she had to...
by admin | May 23, 2012 | Defies Description
As usual, I’m in love with something. I love the idea of gambling, but I profess that it doesn’t love me back. Not that I don’t win on occasion. I do. But I know the deck is stacked against me literally. Casinos aren’t charities – they...
by admin | May 22, 2012 | Culture
I went to a friend’s choral concert a couple days ago. It was a beautiful performance, though being in a church always gives me a pause to think. No, not about going to church again – that ship has sailed long ago. Being a Catholic as a child can do that...
by admin | May 21, 2012 | Life Lessons
I’ve been on a fiction kick lately. Well, at least about how life sometimes parallels fiction or vice versa. We eventually even reach “The End” in our life, when we turn the last page and close the book. The End has always been a bit tricky for me....
by admin | May 18, 2012 | Randomalities
Looking for a place to live in Seattle isn’t that easy. It’s not just because the vacancy rate on rentals is impossibly low right now and every rental seems to have multiple bidders, but because it’s tough to find just the right place. I admit that...
