On Tuesday night, Ken and I went to The Triple Door to see Vienna Teng.  While on our vacation a few months ago, Vienna and her musical partner Alex Wong played in the atrium of a crazy cruise ship into the wee hours of the morning.  So, no surprise Vienna was awesome.  She has a [...]

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A lot of my family loves the outdoors, but my cousin, Jason has taken his Grizzly Adams fantasy to a whole new fantastic level.  He is hiking the Appalachian Mt Trail, starting in Georgia last month.  Our last report from my Uncle Steve is that he is in Tennessee/South Carolina.  I am loving that Jason is [...]

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I’ve been helping a client to build their social networking, but here is the thing, I’m a terrible communicator.  I have a hard time picking up the phone to call family and friends I love, I get bored with being consistent on this blog (and I like having a blog), and very quickly move onto [...]

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Oh yeah, my baby loves me.
Ken and I have had two days of Valentine celebrations.  It started yesterday with a nice lunch at Farestart, a community group that owns a great restaurant in downtown Seattle.  Then to Banya 5, a spa/turkish bath.  We had full body salt scrubs, massages, and lounged in hot tubs all [...]

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Hi all.  So here are a few random tidbits that I’ve looking at today.   I was trying to think of  a clever way to loop them into one master post, but I had no luck. . .

 
 
  Cargo Container Living.
Lapster and I saw a post a few months ago about using cargo containers as a [...]

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So Lapster and I have had a very “Memorial Day” weekend — we went to see the new Indiana Jones movie (long story short — it was brilliant — will write more later), had a bunch of bbq’s at the house, and then we went to buy a bike for me.  Apparently, everyone else in [...]

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She is on her way, shipped yesterday.  Oh, la, la!

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As always my work-life has become exciting and all encompassing. So much so, that Lapster is also volunteering a ton of time to make Seeds of Compassion event a success and it keeps getting more grand by the day. It started out as a four-day event — Now, we have a benefit concert, [...]

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So, here’s my new laptop that I haven’t donated yet to a child. I bought it so that I could share one with some child in the world ($400.00 got me one device, and the second was dontated) and because I love gadgets.

I wasn’t having fun with it until I found a new Jabber server [...]

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We finally made it – as a race of people, that is…
The mountain has been summited and a company is now selling energy efficient solar cells at inexpensive pricing and high output. This means there are more efficient and less expensive version to come, using a solar cell ‘printing’ technology developed by NanoSolar of California.
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