I'm crap...

at making posts here. they come few and far in between. i think my new ears thingie will be posting here more often. but the problem is, a) i'm disabled and dont do much interesting anymore and that what i do do (poopoo?) ends up on alex's blog (and she's taken control of all the cameras in the house). b) it's been a crap winter and there is not shit happening in the upper northwest (is that saying the same time twice?) . so, how about I will start posting this year, regularly, when it gets nice? is that ok? and alex just told me that 'it's not a shit winter, we have new friends and stuff!', which is true, but that's for nother post! (ps, I did all this without hitting the RETURN key once!) brockout

4x4 Caprice Impala SS?

had to run down to the local minimart/deli which i still call the liquor store even though they don't (not even beer/wine as NONE in washington state do) to get some tortilla chips (to go with my standard lunch staple of frozen burros) and saw this fine ride!!!

it was so amazing that I drove home (2/5 mile uphill) to grab the camera.

feast your eyes on this:

can it off-road as well as a H2?

the body's got some ground clearance!

I've never seen a B-body impala with a 2.6 liter engine!

perhaps it's got half of a LT1.

I guess the old hotrod style of sticking the ass-end
up in the air is coming back!

pirelli scorpion zeros @ 295/30R26

I can't even imagine what this person paid,
most likely just because he though the
tiny yellow scorpion was HARD

there you have it. the most amazing thing I've seen
on the road in a whiles.

when I left, there were 9 young ghetto rats taking
pictures with their razrs and saying 'dude, my car is
going to look JUST like this!!! oh yeah!!'

5 months of putting it off...

ok, today is the day!

a) I haven't posted since 5 months ago (exactly!!!), which is lame because I do lots of interesting things.

b) been telling people I'd post for at least 4.142857142857143 months

so, took the pictures from the last few months and quickly looked thru just one directory of them from the last few months, of which there are hundreds and hundreds, so I cut it down to 20.

Also in the mix are pictures from my 'rents first visit to pidgin point (where we live, a part of west seattle...it's all divided up in areas with goofy and not so goofy names).

onwards!

this is my wife! she is just as special as I am!

nah, she's cute, smart and even makes pie!

you can't beat that!

she even likes a disabled troll like me!

these are some people that were just there.

we drive around and hang out with people shorter then us.

on the back porch, looking pretty!
I think it was the first day of summer, which came
in july. how does that work?

mom, alex and I doing what all the tourists do,
take a picture looking like tools in front of
the first starbucks.

walking around the back end of the pike market, checking out some totem poles and the puget sound (probably watching the ferrys).

flying a M-21 (one of two A-12 or YF-12's built for the CIA (the early models of the plane that we know as the SR-71 or blackbird (also known as the baddest ass plane ever built)))

alex taking a picture of the potty in the air force one (the first 'jet' AF1 used, a VC-137 (flew Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon)) at the boeing museum of flight. her comment at the time was, just think of who weed and dookied here!

if you ever come to seattle, GO! it's one of the most amazing museums...I'll have to post more pictures from there. http://www.museumofflight.org

dexter, still with his winter coat on, in june.

alex and I acting as we usually act,

goofy,

at some cool scluptures by the worlds fair complex.

and proof that I not only have a wife, but parents too

who are just as goofy as i am!

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brockout.

in honor of Gary Gygax

R.I.P.

GEEK LOVE

(and yes, I am on the left side of the diagram)

wtf?

story to follow, going to have lunch with monica!

Hello!!!!

we have moved!

and I've not posted since the road trip many months ago.

time to start again!

rather then make this big one, I'm going to post this one and 2 others.

..........

so, we've left southern california! Been there all of my 39 years, but my parents are escaping so we took the chance to also!

we now live in sunny (well, sometimes!) and rainy (well, sprinkley!) west seattle, washington.

where the hills are green, rather then brown!

and on a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain, overlooking the puget sound no less!

I call it 'los west silverlake feliz seattle', because west seattle is really the los feliz and silverlake of seattle. it does have it's echo parkey parts, but for the most part its upwardly mobile youngish people. there's a LOT of Subarus around these parts! :-P

I should even add santa monica in that mix, because of california ave SW, which is pretty much 3rd street promenade, with bars, restaurants and trendy shops.

here's some numbers for you.

153 feet above sea level, 823 feet from the water (down a biggie staircase), 1.2 miles from alki beach (which has real sand and expensive ass condos) and 2.2 miles from downtown. From the window next to my puter, I see the 'sound and 6 big shipping container loading cranes, which I call storks, because it wouldn't be as fun just calling them crains.

if we didn't live in an area that had green belt status, we could trim the trees a bit and have an AMAZING view of the downtown seattle skyline, with the space needle and all. but alas, we can't, even though the vines the city planted are killing the trees anyway.


there's lots more to say, but I'll just start with some pictures, then end!

(it's lunch time)

the flat:

this is the view from the computer/music room
(its kind of a hazy day, we just got done with a NASTY rain yesterday):

here's a picture of the cool train drawbridge you can see from the porch:

our stairway to the water:

and this is the view we'd have from our place if the trees weren't there:

on a clear day or night, this view is amazing.

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ok, that's about it for now.

but one more thing!!!

our landlords!

we've got so amazingly lucky!

the owners, ray and nancy...who are also our neighbors, are amazing!

Super nice, funny, witty and friendly (or is that same as nice?)

ray is a contractor and has a garage full of tools so i feel right at home!

we all share lots of common interests and loves

getting along smashingly!

alex and I both feel so lucky that we've found a nice place with
nice people (expecially after what happened to the last 2 places we rented)

over and brockout!

old and newked

there is a good chance I'll never update the glog with the 2nd half of the trip home from cheese land.

sorry.


but now going on a new venture

the greater seattle area of wishingtom.

will update on this front!

if we don't die on the little plane taking us there.

over and brockout.