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The honeymoon is over and I am no longer so much in love with snow.

I’m playing tour guide this week. It gives me an insurmountable amount of joy to show my good friends from Australia, Lachlan and Geraldine, around Seattle. I drove us to Leavenworth on Saturday; a two hour drive east through the mountains. We cruised through misting fields and tree-lined mountain roads, glowing with the swell of…

This blog has been empty as of late. It’s your fault. And I don’t mean the collective audience, the entire internet or even the known universe. I mean, specifically you. You there staring at the screen with your drying eyes with the dark circles. You who just shifted a little in your seat because one…

Volkswagen – When was the last time you just went for a drive? This TV ad is undeniably fantastic, so thanks to Dennis for reminding me about it. The poetry, the restrained emotion and the gravelly delivery all focused on one of life’s more simple pleasures: driving home on empty streets. My drive home on…

So an update on the driving situation. As you know, I bought a car recently. I lived in Seattle for about 10 months without a car and I caught the bus and walked between bus stops and everything. Overall, it was pretty good not having a car. After I got this car, I’ve been driving…

For those that don’t know, I have my car now. A week ago, I was stressing over it and now I have it and it drives fine but I need to read the manual to see how to actually make it play MP3s and I need to stop myself from buying a $500 GPS unit…

Wow, it was a great idea to eat a huge lunch at 12pm. It’s now 2pm and I just can’t stop yawning. I just want to go home and nap. Instead let me tell you about the car I am going to buy. Here is a picture: 2006 Volkswagen Jetta This isn’t the exact car…

Just a quick rant: someone out here is teaching people to leave one car-length of space when stopping at the lights. That is precisely what this minivan did this morning. Normally, I wouldn’t care how much space this person left except that she left this much space when her car was right next to a…

So one thing I alluded to in my previous post about the buying a car or a laptop was the possibility of socializing with attractive people that live further away. Whether it be in North Seattle or on the East side where the overpaid programmers dwell. Seattle is so much more awesome than Bellevue or…

For those that don’t know, I don’t own a car. I’d like to own a car but really, I don’t need one. Worst case scenario: I might spend $50 on cab fare if I go out on both a Friday and a Saturday night. It has never happened. The weird thing about not owning a…

I think I’ve probably been thinking too much about Forza Motorsport 2. One notable aspect is that all my metaphors are now based around car racing. Whether I’m dealing with the absolute clusterfuck that is human relationships or pontificating the appeal of open source technologies to start-ups, my mind wanders to metaphors about friction, cornering,…

What have I been up to lately? Pfft, sweet fuck all. I am enjoying playing Forza Motorsport 2 though. I’m enjoying it so much that I look at roads and try to draw imaginary racing lines. But I’m not in anyway a good fast or knowledgeable driver. Just today I realized that AWD makes things…

Hi Addyboo! First of all, I have emails from friends from a month ago that I need to reply to. Don’t worry. I will. I want to. Things just keep jumping in the way. Dog Whisperer is eighteen awesomes I’ve been watching a lot of TV lately as a way to escape a lot of…

I’ve been in Seattle for three weeks now For the past few weeks I’ve been tossing up whether I need to buy a car to live in Seattle. Washington state driver’s license? Yes; I definitely want one of those. But a car? I’m not so sure. At first I thought, Nah, I don’t need one!…