donderdag 8 april 2015

donderdag 8 april 2015 Up at 2:24. Turn on WBUR - Boston. Their weather - 35° and overcast. The Penalty Phase: What Happens Next In The Tsarnaev Trial. Egg salad sandwich before breakfast. Uff da! Let's call him Tehran Tom - Tom Cotton: Military Action Against Iran Would Take Only 'Several Days'. Ladies and gentlemen - Senator Thomas Bryant "Tom" Cotton (R-AR), American politician and warmonger.

Oh! What happened? Comcast: Fiber damage leaves 33,000 in Seattle without Internet, 911 access. Oops. About 7 hours without service for me. Up to Walgreens for a little while. I can see lots of tourists in the Space Needle. It's 62° with sapphire skies!

Short walk about. Up to Value Village to buy a $1 t-shirt. The clouds are rolling into town. Watch Monty Python's - The Meaning Of Life. How 'bout some Philosophy for dinner?

woensdag 8 april 2015

woensdag 8 april 2015 Up at 1:37. Watch WABC News.  White South Carolina Office Charged With Murder In Black Motorist's Death. It's news around the world. RT and France 24 report the same murder. Edamame and hash browns for breakfast. Turn on Stephanie Miller. Podcaster Jody Hamilton joins the gang in the Los Angeles Bureau. They sympathize with Barack Obama's empty nest syndrome. Walk to the downtown Post Office to mail a bill then up to Whole Foods to pick up some veggies. Look what's on the streetcar!

Back to my place. Watch some more France 24. The new top story - Tsarnaev found guilty of Boston Marathon bombing.

Put a little air in my bike's tires. Ride up to Fremont and to Ballard. Drop by to say 'hi' to Edith Macefield's old house.

Where the Burke-Gilman trail ends, the traffic gets a little busy on Shilshole. Park my bike at the SPL - Ballard and walk around. The neighborhood is crazy growing. I don't recognize the place.

Check out a new apartment complex - Greenfire Campus. Ride back over the University Street Bridge down the east side of Lake Union to my place... D-Town. Blah! It's RUSH HOUR! But I manage to work through it. For the most part, it was a good bike ride (15.7 miles), but I'm relieved to be home. Jalapeño black bean chili on Rice-A-Roni for dinner. Things are just not normal for Ryan and Wilfred after their camping trip. If things couldn't get weirder... They do!

dinsdag 7 april 2015

dinsdag 7 april 2015 Up at 2:44. Watch BBC News. Desperate situation. UN demands access to Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus Veggie fried rice for breakfast. Turn on Stephanie Miller. Carlos Alazraqui is wearing his SF Giants cap. Yay for the San Francisco Giants! He's 371 miles away from AT&T Park. That's loyalty!

Makes me a little nostalgic for the city... and the house on Liberty Street. Can you call it 'Frisco?' It's a rainy day here and there. CHP issues advisory for Bay Area commuters driving over bridges.

It's 51° with a light drizzle for my walk around Capitol Hill. Up Summit Ave. to Analog Coffee. It's a busy little shop with lots of dogs and dog walkers outside conversing. Continue up Harrison Street to The Harrison. I'm listening to the story of Julie Davis - airlifted from Vietnam in 1975 - on KUOW. Finding The Nun Who Saved Me In Vietnam. Lots of kids smoking outside Seattle Central. Back to my place. Still having flash backs to San Francisco. Midday movie - Milk. It still moves me to tears. My name is Harvey Milk and I'm here to recruit you!

Rice-A-Roni for dinner and Wilfred (Season 4).

maandag 6 april 2015

maandag 6 april 2015 Up at 3:27. Watch France 24 while doing some laundry. Fried egg and hash browns for breakfast. It's King Felix day - Hernandez on the mound as Mariners open against Angels. Turn on Stephanie Miller. Eric Boehlert of Media Matters for America talks about the media coverage of John Kerry’s success in Iran. Iran Talks Could Win John Kerry the Nobel Peace Prize. It's opening day for the Seattle Mariners, the NY Yankees and Mets and the Cincinnati Reds. Watch WCPO for the parade down Race Street. Loving the sights and sounds of opening day.

Let's get this season started! My, oh My! The Mariners win it! Eric Johnson: The things I love about baseball.

zondag 5 april 2015

zondag 5 april 2015 Up at 1:40 with a BBC News alert - Hadron collider restarts after rebuild. It came from my iPad which was too loud. A large portion of CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics, is located in the territory of Saint-Genis-Pouilly.

Merry atom-smashing, guys! Very early morning movie - Armageddon. Strange thing to watch on Easter. Roger Ebert considers Armageddon (1998) to be one of his most hated films. He said it was an assault on the eyes, the ears, the brain, common sense and the human desire to be entertained. I wouldn't dare assault my neighbors with this, so I use the earphones. Sadly, they blow up Paris. Jalapeño black bean chili on toast for breakfast. Nice quiet bike ride up Lake Union. Wow! They're making some bike lanes on Mercer Street. Amazing! Amazingly green!

Connect with the Cheshiahud Trail across the Fremont Bridge to Gas Works Park. People are eating brunch in the park.

Seattle has money invested in its houseboats and lakeview homes. The privileged.

Too bad, Mike. 2608 Yale Ave. E. is off the market. I'm home in time for A Prairie Home Companion - The Texas Waltz. Beans on toast for dinner. I'm such a space case. Relax for a marathon. Star Trek DS9 - Season 5.

zaterdag 4 april 2015

zaterdag 4 april 2015 Up at 3:34. Restless night. A total lunar eclipse is visible in Seattle this morning just before sunrise.

KING-5 managed to get a shot of it. Oh, my. My last day of Comcast service will be April 11th. So, after that, I'll be stealing Wi-Fi. Cancelling Comcast was easier than I expected. I talked with "Ian of Customer Loyalty" and he was totally cooperative. Anyway, this is going to be a major "quality of life" issue. It's going to be hmmm... You know... a fascinating transition. Damn it! It's 47° and a little windy for my walk up to the Capitol Hill SPL. Lots of computers are available this early. Down B'way. They say that the Capitol Hill light rail station is 83% complete. Service to start early next year. Back to my place. Low-energy. A cold's got me, I think. Re-watch Forrest Gump since I fell asleep after 47 minutes of it last night. Forrest makes history in the most innocent and accidental ways.

The clouds are burning off and it looks beautiful out. I stay inside to rest. Midday movie - Gor. (Thank you, Netflix.) I have never seen the first of the series, but this is supposed to be The Most Ridiculous Nerd Fantasy Ever Filmed! American professor Tarl Cabot is transported via a magical ring to planet Gor... where he meets an interesting slave girl, Talena.

SAKURA-CON is getting boisterous next door. Sakura-Con convention brings anime fans to Seattle. Next - Lost In Space: A Change Of Space. An extra-galactic vehicle lands on the planet. Dr. Smith goes inside the spaceship, puts on the magic helmet and takes off into the 6th Dimension. Doctor Zachary Smith: Lord of the Galaxies.

vrijdag 3 april 2015

vrijdag 3 april 2015 Lost In Space - All That Glitters. Dr. Smith and Penny obtain a ring that will turn anything to platinum.

It also involves an alien burglar Ohan, Galaxy Law Enforcer named Bolix and two scary hairy monsters. Next - MST3K: Space Mutiny. Asleep for 3 hours. Watch France 24. Second black box confirms Germanwings crash was deliberate. Chili omelet and hash browns for breakfast. Turn on Stephanie Miller.  She gets a down-on-the-ground perspective of the Indiana scene from Indiana Talks Network. David Letterman's Top Ten Guys Indiana Governor Mike Pence Looks Like. It's 47° and cloudy for my walk down to Pike Place then up to Seattle Central College. It almost rains on me. Home to watch some Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Love Pinot Noir! Hello PoliticsNation. Hillary Clinton's Team Drops Biggest Hint Yet She's Running For President - Welcome to Brooklyn, Hillary Clinton.

chicken ramen for dinner and movie - Forrest Gump.