Optical Illusion. . . #3?
This should please some of my readers. An interesting optical illusion from our friends at Ikea. . . or so it would seem.
Where is Bob?
Came across this today. Laughed my ass off.
MLK & Top Sirloin!
I laughed pretty hard when I saw this posted here.
Seattle: Week 2
Things this week have gone well. I was approved for my new place on Mercer Island and was able to sign the papers yesterday, so I pick up the keys on the 1st and head up to Bellingham so that I can meet the movers the next morning. They’ll pack my things, move them down to my new place, and then unpack all in the same day, which will be pretty nice. . . only taking a day to move.
At work, we had two regional directors visiting this week. It was really interesting to be included in those meetings, lunches, dinners, etc. As well, I went through new hire orientation and got a kick out of it when the HR director showed us something like an org chart, and my name was on it. 
I’ve been so exhausted this week. The Tour started at 3:30 on Tuesday and Wednesday, and nearly every evening this week, I went out with one friend or another, so I haven’t been able to get much sleep. Needless to say, I’ve been trying to take a lot of naps. At the moment, it’s 5:30am, and I’ve been up for 1.5 hours already, watching the final day of the Tour.
Once I’m settled into my new place, I plan to find a gym (24 Hour Fitness since Hilton employees get a discount) and a capoeira group. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find a a capoeira group here on the East-side.
Seattle: Week 1
I’ve been in Seattle for one week now. I’m getting a little tired of the food at the hotel. While it may be of super high quality, I am used to all raw food, so it’s been difficult (or easy if I just want to be lazy) to adjust, and that’s not something I want.
I haven’t encountered too much traffic while driving around, and I know that Seattle is notorious for it’s traffic. We’ll see how it is once I get into my place on Mercer Island. When I drove back to the hotel after seeing it the first time, it only took 7 minutes during rush hour. Oh, btw, the lady from Seattle Apartment Finders that helped me find the place was pretty cool. The service was definitely worth it.
Work, moving, and the Tour de France have pretty much destroyed my workouts. I worked out in the hotel fitness center the first two days I was here, but gave up because I didn’t have enough time for everything. Hopefully, I can just limp along with a workout here or there until I move and can get a gym membership.
I’ve been trying to reconnect with old friends, so I’ve been out with different people that I haven’t seen for years about every other night here. That’s pretty fun because there’s always something to talk about.
Seems like I’m gonna like this place.
I am still really confused
I cannot for the life of me figure out why it is that one of my posts on an optical illusion is now getting over 60 hits/day. One single post is driving nearly all of my traffic.
Australia Trip: Pt 6
I took my rental car down south of Canberra before heading east to the coast. I was amazed at how similar the Australian coast looks to the Oregon and Washington coasts.
Of course, this is another of the shots where I set the camera down and let it snap away while I walked around. I don’t even know how many of these types of pics had nothing in them because I was just walking around off camera.
At one point, it was so windy that my car was getting blown around on the road, so I stopped to take a break.
Don’t tell my rental car company, but I took the car off road for a few miles so that I could get to Pebbly Beach. There, I ran into my friend, Parrot Herbert, and a couple of his buddies.
I also saw some kangaroos just kickin it on the beach.
I didn’t touch them though because they have claws that look sharp, and I didn’t want to tempt fate.
During one of those times when the camera was snapping away, I turned around to see my jacket (with cell phone in pocket) blow into the ocean.
After returning to Sydney, I stayed one night again with Chris and his family, who are by the way awesome people, and then, I flew out for Vegas.
Don’t go to jail
Some guy wrote a pretty interesting story about being wrongly convicted. Parts of it made me cringe.
Australia Trip: Pt 5
On June 27th, I caught the bus down to Canberra. For all of you that don’t know, that’s the capital. A friend (and amazing musician) from high school, Ryan Weed, is doing his PhD there in Anti-Matter Physics. While there, I got to watch a Rugby Union match, something that I had never seen live.
They also had a party, which was a house warming for Ryan and a celebration of the end of term. Karim (Ryan’s roommate) does a pretty good Michael Jackson.
On my last day there, Ryan and I went to see the Australian War Memorial.
It was pretty cool, but we had to kind of rush through because it was so late in the day.
At the end of the weekend, I rented a car.
It was not all that difficult getting used to driving on the wrong side of the road.
At one point, I stopped for gas and found this big boy guarding the door to the gas station.
He was extremely friendly, if also lazy. 
Australia Trip: Pt 4
One day, Chris and I took the ferry from Circular Quay to Manly Park and got lunch at the Bavarian brewery. It was amazing how similar Manly is to surfing/tourist towns you would see all along the US Pacific coast.
I wouldn’t normally eat meat, but since I was traveling, I decided to try a lot of things that I would not typically. At the brewery, they had a Schnitzel “challenge.”
If you finished it, you got a free drink, so I gave it a go.
It was pretty big, and underneath was a plate full of fries and salad. I finished it and got my drink. 
This was the view on the way back from Manly.
On my birthday, I headed into Sydney to check out the Sydney Harbour Bridge. You can walk over the top of the arches. (Notice the people walking on the left arch)
That tour costs more than $150. I did not want to pay for that, so I paid to go up one of the pylons. $12 and a great view. (The Botanical Gardens are right behind the Opera House)
I took so many pictures that I started playing with the settings on my camera to get different looks from the same types of pics.
Chris and I went to Hungry Jacks.
Turns out it’s the exact same thing as Burger King. . . same products, same menu, same graphics, same owners, just a different name. Don’t know why.
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