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10.15.2001 17:01
Kat Rant
So my latest pet-peeve is about people being so overly suspicious of white power, that some moron called 911 after seeing a pile of white powder in a laundromat. Now, wouldn’t it be reasonable to assume that it’s washing powder, not anthrax? Additionally, I think that it’s absurd to think that anyone would specifically be trying to cause the downfall of the United States by taking down the country one laundromat at a time…
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10.11.2001 12:19
Stormy Weather
Last night, at 1:00 AM, we had one of the worst thunderstorms that I have ever been in, and that says a lot given the storms that would roll across St. Louis the summer that I lived there. It was pretty funny, actually. I was sleeping so soundly that I missed the first few, they sort of melded into the nightmare that I was having about bombing Afghanistan. Then I realized that rumbling was for real and that it was “only” thunder. I swear that some of those lightening bolts hit our neighborhood. Ben got up to watch the hail pile up on the deck, and lightening totally illuminated the room, pretty much blinding both of us. It was pretty incredible.
This morning, when I left for work in the dark, there were still piles of hail on the lawn, probably a few inches deep in some places. It looked a little like a snowstorm had selectively covered the suburbs.
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10.07.2001 20:16
Serendipity
We went to see the new Cusack movie, Serendipity, today. It’s a typical Cusack romantic comedy, but I quite liked it. I won’t give away the plot beyond the obvious (he gets the girl in the end. He always gets the girl in the end…). It had a bit of a strange cast: John Cusack, of-course, and Kate Beckinsale, but also one of the silly Saturday Night Live women as the best friend, and the guy from Northern Exposure as the new age musician. It’s a New York movie, and it was good to see that they hadn’t edited out any of the images of the World Trade Center (although there weren’t too many sweeping views of NYC skylines anyway).
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10.05.2001 13:16
Eating out
This week hasn’t given me much to write about. Last night, however, some friends decided to meet for drinks at the Palace Kitchen from drinks, so Ben and I decided to venture into the city as well. It’s amazing that while we say that we ‘live in Seattle’ to those people who aren’t here, but we really do live quite a ways away. Traffic was bearable, however, and the drive into the city only took 45 minutes from the house, even at rush hour. We had planned to go to dinner at Dahlia’s Lounge, another one of Tom Douglas’ restaurants before hand, but were summarily turned away without reservations at 6 on a Thursday. We ended up at the Icon Grill where I had yummy Potato Wrapped Halibut, pictured here. The Palace Kitchen seems like a nice enough place. I don’t like their bar set up, in the center, with not much of a cozy place to hang out. And as usual, having to shout to be heard. I guess the greatest upside was that no one smoked.
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10.05.2001 12:51
"We got married!": So, last weekend the Bangor Daily News ran Alix and Michi’s wedding announcement.
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10.05.2001 12:36
The Onion is always funny, but particularly good was their September 26, 2001 edition.
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10.03.2001 13:03
Peter Pan: Second star to the right and straight on to insanity.
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10.02.2001 22:24
Beneath the Veil should be required viewing these days.
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09.29.2001 22:03
Sightseeing
It being a beautiful early fall day, Ben and I decided to venture to Bainbridge Island to visit the Bloedel Reserve. (On a side note, Blödel or Bloedel in German means idiot, which is kind of funny.) It’s a huge private park, owned and maintained by the Bloedel Family. In order to minimize the disturbance to the grounds and house itself, you have to make reservations to visit, but that doesn’t seem to pose much of a problem. Ben made reservations on Friday, for a Saturday morning visit.
We took an early ferry to Bainbridge, not sure how long it would take to get to the Reserve. Of course, we could have gone through Seattle, but to avoid the inevitable traffic mess (and the perpetual weekend closure of the 520-bridge) we went via Edmonds and Kingston. Because we had an hour to kill, we went into Winslow for breakfast, and after bailing at a terribly formal and very understaffed French restaurant, we settled for a very funny Mexican joint for breakfast. I felt like I was in a bad movie, with combination accordion and Mexican show tunes playing on the stereo.
The Reserve was really great and quiet enough to hear yourself breathe; a great place to bring visitors and I imagine that it would be pretty with a dusting of snow too. The gardens are a mixture of semi-manicured wilderness (I didn’t know that you could maintain moss so well) and formal gardens; fields, woods and ponds. To avoid the gaggle of bored housewives on parade (however small the crowd), we did the tour backwards. The Japanese garden was wonderful, which led into second-growth woods to the house. From there, we wandered as close to water on Puget Sound as we could get (which was really nowhere close to the water), by the waterfall and through the bird refuge. There were the ever present Canadian Geese, but also trumpeter swans. The colors were beginning to change and it was nice to see New England-like reds and yellows. There are pictures in the picture section.
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09.27.2001 22:03
Travel advisory
Our illustrious president today urged “all American to go out and visit the sights of this great country”, so in honor of that, I have resurrected the cross country trip pictures when Ben, Da Maus and I moved to Seattle. Here are some of the great sights of our country, avec Da Maus. I’m particularly fond of my addition to Mt. Rushmore.
On a related note, there was a proposal put forth today by some member of Congress to charge a $2.50 per leg “security charge” on each airline ticket, so $5 round trip. I’m pretty indifferent on the money and all that. What I did find interesting is how he put it, exact words were: “This amount of money is less than the cost of a grande cappuccino at the airport Starbucks.” Now, I realize that we have been using the length of a football field as a measure of distance for many years, but I didn’t know that Starbucks drinks are now being used as a measure of price.
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