Archive for February, 2008

Quiet Month

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Sorry for the lack of posts, photos, movies.  I’ll get some up this weekend.  It’s been a pretty quiet month.  The biggest item was Nate getting sick – fever, ear infection, pink eye, and cold all during the same week.  He went on two different antiobiotics before things cleared up.  Of course, mom and dad got sick also.  Zach escaped the illness (so far) which was nice.

We’ve had relatively mild weather so this last weekend we spent Saturday morning at Marymoor Park in Redmond and I was able to do a lot of gardening on Sunday.  I attended the Seattle Home Show last Friday and we are now looking at bids on kitchen refacing.  Other plans we have include remodeling Steph’s bathroom, a new roof, and landscape work including a hot tub.

That about sums things up.

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First Caucus

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

I participated in my first ever caucus yesterday.  A nearby high school was host to several caucuses for different precints.  I would guess that there were probably around 300 people there in total – 45 from my precint.

When you sign in at the caucus you write in your pick for President.  Then anyone can stand up and give a one minute speech on why they select their candidate.  After that we all sat around discussing our candidates, basically trying to persuade the other side to switch.  My table successfully moved an ‘undecided’ to Clinton.

Overall, Obama received 3 of our 5 delagates and Clinton received the other two.  The state of Washington heavily favored Obama.  Now for some goofiness.  We had our caucus and the number of delegates for each candidate have been picked, but our state also has a seemingly meaningless primary.  On February 19th we vote for our candidate but in the case of Democrats, it has bearing on the delegates allocated to the candidates.  Yes, we hold a primary for no apparent reason.

Otherwise a quiet weekend.  I’ve been under the weather (food poisoning) so I’ve had to lay low.  Zach and Nate have been doing very well.  Steph was busy this past week at work.

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Super Bowl Ouch and Wimpy Californians

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Californians whine when they get 1 to 2 feet of snow in their mountains – don’t believe me, check cnn.com. Our mountains just 1 hour out of Seattle received 100 inches in one week closing I90 for several days. I90 is major east-west route across the cascades (3 lanes in each direction – bigger than I80 in California). Never a story (that I found) on cnn.com about that. The Southern Californian mountains may receive a foot of snow tonight – that made national coverage – please…get some real snow. Anyway, I’m tired of the sob stories for California.

FYI, I used to live in Northern and Southern California – so I can bitch about their whininess.

As for the Super Bowl – what an upset!!! I can’t believe the Pats let that one get away -what the hell were they thinking. Brady and his offense sucked! How do you suck in the biggest game of the year after being the most dominating offense ever! I don’t get it.

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Pre Game Super Bowl Coverage SUCKS!!!

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Oh my god!!! How bad can Fox make the pregame coverage. I watched the ESPN coverage up until 11am (after that Fox has the exclusive coverage) and the EPSN coverage was all about football and the game – what I expected and it wasn’t bad.

Fox has a red carpet with Hollywood stars and it’s emceed by Ryan Seacrest. What The F*ck?!? This isn’t that crappy American Idol show! Does Fox really think that football fans really want to watch this crap. Then they had these mini ‘crappy’ concerts…like Alicia Keys singing to what is obviously non-football fans considering most were wearing fluorescent clothing and not football jerseys.

Ok, so we changed the channel. Then we flipped back on 2:50pm only to watch Fox show former football stars read the Declaration of Independence! Have they frickin lost it! This is not football…Don’t get me wrong, I’m patriotic, but I don’t need a history lesson before the super bowl (unless of course it is super bowl history).

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Super Sunday

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Go Patriots!!!

I need to catch on the blog – I’m a little behind.  Last weekend Nate and I flew down to San Francisco to attend my grandparents 65th wedding anniversary.  It was amazing – 50+ people showed up.  Everyone had a wonderful time and Nate was a perfect 6 month old – getting handed off to everyone.  Here is a picture during dinner…

Previously I spoke about the cool full moon we had.  Here is a shot I took that morning as it was setting over the Olympics and the sun was getting to rise.

The weather has been cool but not much in the way of snow.  We had a dusting last monday when many areas outside of Seattle had 3 to 6 inches.  We had a few flakes this morning (and I do mean only a few).

The boys have been really good.  I took Nate and Zach to Babies-r-us and picked up one more booster seat for Zach.  We also went to Lowes and then to Skylark for breakfast.  Last night we all went to the brew pub for dinner.  At dinner after the waitress put Zach’s plate in front of him, he said ‘thank you’ – an unsolicited thank you!  Wow – he’s growing up quick.  He’s also starting to count past ten, doing better with his ABCs and recognizes his name when written.

We also booked our plans for our summer vacation.  We are staying at a nice house at Lake Chelan from July 2nd to July 9th.  The house sits on 20 acres, has a fenced in pool and a hot tub.  Jan and Mike will be hanging with us for the week.  Can’t wait for that trip – it will be a blast.

Here is a picture of the boys hanging in our bed.

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