Then! things should calm down for a while - maybe over a month of no significant travel!!!
Hope things are good elsewhere...here are a couple shots of Bellingham Bay and some action from Japan last week....
26.1.08
quick update
this will be a quick one...got back in from Japan Friday morning and I am heading to Seattle tomorrow first thing for a volleyball tournament. Then I head to New Orleans Monday for a conference. Get back Thursday and drive to Whistler Thursday night for some reallllly fun snowboarding and hanging out with fun people.
23.1.08
Nippon
Ahhhh OSAKA!
Not too much report without photos available yet...blah weather and a busy work schedule mean I haven't had time to organize my thoughts. I think the Japanese people are considerably more patient than the Chinese - but that is just a first impression. They seem to have a very "easy-going" way about their days. Aside from that, this new lens I got last week is awesome and I am actually learning how to use it a little bit. photos will be soon to follow.
We are going to Kyoto tomorrow morning first thing to see some sites and, for me, take some photos. Should be a good chance to get some "Authentic Japanese" pictures.
I can't stop picturing Frank Noel walking the streets of Osaka later this year. He will be here for 2 years and that is a funnnnnny prospect to me. I get the impression he will make some very good Japanese friends.
As for work, testing went smooth and saw lots of burning rope. Yay for that.
More to come...
Not too much report without photos available yet...blah weather and a busy work schedule mean I haven't had time to organize my thoughts. I think the Japanese people are considerably more patient than the Chinese - but that is just a first impression. They seem to have a very "easy-going" way about their days. Aside from that, this new lens I got last week is awesome and I am actually learning how to use it a little bit. photos will be soon to follow.
We are going to Kyoto tomorrow morning first thing to see some sites and, for me, take some photos. Should be a good chance to get some "Authentic Japanese" pictures.
I can't stop picturing Frank Noel walking the streets of Osaka later this year. He will be here for 2 years and that is a funnnnnny prospect to me. I get the impression he will make some very good Japanese friends.
As for work, testing went smooth and saw lots of burning rope. Yay for that.
More to come...
17.1.08
Japanese Sushi
The lack of writing material tonight leaves me a little bit confused. Fingers are crossed for some snow to fall this weekend b/c it as been bone dry here the last week or so. Supposed to start snowing at Baker tomorrow so if so I am heading up with Amy, a girl that I work with, for intro to snowboarding....either way, Eeek-a-mouse is playing in Seattle Saturday night, and that = AWESOME FUN GREATNESS
Quickly off to Japan on Sunday. I am going to work my hardest to find gifts that suite everyone, but I am no good at that task, so whatever I find I find.
Here is the token photo...not sure how it impacts people, but it is a shot from the northern california coast that I love....enjoy....
16.1.08
Flight of the Conchords
Just wanted to expose the rest of the world to "The Flight of the Conchords"
youtube them...
Also, Preparing for a trip to Osaka on Sunday. Should be a good trip b/c I get to play with fire while I am there and burn stuff on purpose. I will be leaving Sunday afternoon and coming back Friday morning! I should get to see Osaka and Tokyo with a stop in a couple old villages and a flight into Kansai - that floating airport!
Also, saw some very neat sites of the flooding and mudslides from down on the Columbia river yesterday in Oregon. The stuff that was all over the national news a couple weeks ago, with windstorms and mud sliding all over the place. In the middle of the madness there was this really colorful scene...strange and surreal. Oregon is neat. The Columbia river is impressive.
All I got for now
youtube them...
Also, Preparing for a trip to Osaka on Sunday. Should be a good trip b/c I get to play with fire while I am there and burn stuff on purpose. I will be leaving Sunday afternoon and coming back Friday morning! I should get to see Osaka and Tokyo with a stop in a couple old villages and a flight into Kansai - that floating airport!
Also, saw some very neat sites of the flooding and mudslides from down on the Columbia river yesterday in Oregon. The stuff that was all over the national news a couple weeks ago, with windstorms and mud sliding all over the place. In the middle of the madness there was this really colorful scene...strange and surreal. Oregon is neat. The Columbia river is impressive.
All I got for now
13.1.08
Hikes and Bikes
Preparing for my next big purchase (in the year of savings...) and I want to buy a road bike finally. Probably in Feb or March.
Went for a great hike today up Chuckanut ridge to Oyster Dome....again. I have been up there 5-7 times since I moved here, but it is too peaceful and amazing to not go back up, even if the hike is an ass-kicker...
Plus, Walt gets worn out from that trip, so in that respect, its always worth it
It feels like the middle of Jurrasic Park back there...
Southern California winter (part 2)
Took the train from Irvine down to Solona Beach to meet up with Maggie and Krystal for lunch. Cheap and easy with good views of the passing oceanside - not a bad set up for people who would need to travel between LA and SD at all. Definitely the best time to make a trip to southern california....65-70 degrees during the day and down below 45-50 at night...I like that.
Saw Maggie for the first time in a while, so that was fun. We had a good time and relaxed for a day or two just to say hi and make sure we were still friends!
Another trip to the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista. That place has blown up since 2004. The training center is much the same, save the new BMX track they built...Bryan, Juice, Walsh, and Pat loaded into Maggie Honda Accord and trecked back up to PB with us for a beer and some football before I caught my flight Saturday evening.
I can't say I envy the tiny little dorm rooms those fully grown men are cramped into with no easy access to the outside world!
10.1.08
Southern California winters
This is when you want to be in LA - I know this much now. I have been inside in meeting rooms all week from 7am - 6pm and that has been uniquely tiring. We brought our big customers in from Houston, Singapore and Malaysia to give a training session on selling into a new market. Learned some and taught some - kind of fun. Too much food. But, I changed plans and will be taking a train down to San Diego tomorrow morning to see Maggie and Bryan for a day/night. Should be fun and relaxing.
No new snow today on Baker anyway, so I decided not to rush home.
That can wait until next weekend...
So strange how big this world is. Sitting in a room with a Chinese born Singapore business owner and two very engaging 30-somethings from Malaysia while some good-ole boys with a great business sense from Houston provide unlimited input into our markets lets you see how global the oil industry is in every sense of the word. At a point, I was discussing a project I worked on in which the customer from Singapore had supplied several pull-in lines to a Japanese shipowner directly and our Houston-based customer had supplied a different set of pull in lines for a different purpose to a Houston based sister company to the Japanese company. All these very expensive ropes ended up on the same massive oil production and storage vessel headed for the deep waters off the coast of NW Australia. What? Huh?
No new snow today on Baker anyway, so I decided not to rush home.
That can wait until next weekend...
So strange how big this world is. Sitting in a room with a Chinese born Singapore business owner and two very engaging 30-somethings from Malaysia while some good-ole boys with a great business sense from Houston provide unlimited input into our markets lets you see how global the oil industry is in every sense of the word. At a point, I was discussing a project I worked on in which the customer from Singapore had supplied several pull-in lines to a Japanese shipowner directly and our Houston-based customer had supplied a different set of pull in lines for a different purpose to a Houston based sister company to the Japanese company. All these very expensive ropes ended up on the same massive oil production and storage vessel headed for the deep waters off the coast of NW Australia. What? Huh?
2.1.08
Used Years
Lots of fun and partying on a "party-bus" in Seattle. Too much driving and not enough bar hopping, but lots of people and laughing. Plus, got to party with Nick on New Years for the first time in a LONG time.Plus, the Bearcats beat Louisville AT Louisville on New Years Day!
Didn't get my Sauerkraut though...
another short week and back to the mountain if the forecast holds true for this weekend!!!!
money.......get away..........
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