Heat Wave

Upper 90's and tomorrow just might hit 100. I've been freaking out about the cats getting too hot. We have a huge living room window which gets full sun from roughly 12pm to sunset (830-9pmish). Yesterday it was really hot when I came home, even with all the fans running, both cats looked as sad and pathetic as you can imagine. In order to try to help them stay cooler I ended up rearranging the fans and putting up cardboard across most of the living room window. It seemed to really help, although it is still blazing hot in here (~89/90). Surprisingly, Dante (the fat one) seems to be less affected than Absinthe. I've been trying to keep and eye on her because she is breathing really fast. She wasn't to thrilled with me when I patted her down with a wet washcloth, but afterward she wasn't breathing as hard and seemed to have perked up a bit. By trial and error, we've decided to discontinue the washcloth method of cooling and instead dipped her brush in water, something she seems to actually enjoy.

Absinthe trying to cool down.
Dante chillin' on the kitchen tile.

Car Fire

On my way home from work today I saw the smoke and approaching I could see flames under the car. I could see a couple people standing around on cell phones and a cruiser with lights flashing was pulling up as I passed. I saw the dead grass on the hillside and was wondering to myself if it was going to catch. I heard on the news a couple minutes later that the car had just exploded. Too bad their car burned up, but I am soooooo glad I passed it before traffic had time to stop. 2 hour backup is insane!

King 5 News Report

Roll for Damage!

"What's your AC.... Oh, nevermind, it won't be higher enough. I'll go ahead and roll for damage."

(If you don't get this post, that's okay, just ignore it.)

Enrollment is now open for adventure...

I am looking for person(s) interested in one or more of the following, I am also open to suggestions. 

Juan de Fuca Marine Trail

West Coast Trail

Pacific Crest Trail (only a section...for now)

 

August-ish?

Paprika

Cannot recommend this movie enough. (Link to youtube for trailer)

Paprika (2006)

directed by Satoshi Kon

I have seen it several times and am still figuring out the details.

One Big KISS

So I pretty much say this every time, but the event today was the most fun I've had at one of these! The store sends volunteers to help out at local children's events. Today we went to help answer phones at the One Big Kiss Radiothon, benefiting the Seattle Children's Hospital's Greatest Needs fund. Basically helping children get the medical treatment they need. It was a lot of fun and there were tons of great people calling in with monthly and one time donations. If you'd like to help make sick children feel better, call 206-987-1061 or donate online. Goes until 7pm Thursday February 26. 

AVALANCHE!!

I was originally just going to tweet about this, but it is just too weird of a dream not to describe it fully, even if no one is interested in reading about it. Plus, it is now just past the time I am usually up for work so my mind is telling me to get up.

I was working at a Kohl's store that was on top of Mt Baker. The store hadn't opened yet but we had a lot of our merchandize (including all our jewelry). We were having a group meeting with all the employees who were prepping the store, about 10 people (all of which I work with in real life) when we started to hear a faint noise. We told the people talking be be quiet and everyone could hear a faint rumble. It sounded like either some one was trying to break in to steal the jewelry or it was an avalanche. My boss told everyone to call 911 so we all took out our iphones (yes, really). But before anyone could even dial, the building started to shake and I knew it was an avalanche. In my dream I felt sick because I could imagine the store sliding down the mountain and getting buried in snow. Luckily this is when I woke up, because I have no desire to get buried in an avalanche, even if it is only in a dream. Of course I have been getting used to waking up at 6:00am for work so my mind went to wake up mode since it was about 6:30 when I woke up. But it is a Saturday and I refuse to volunterly wake up this early so I will have to buckle down and try really hard to go back to sleep. At the the very least I need to stop typing because Dante is head butting me in the chin.

iphone

I bought Janson's old iphone from him and signed up for AT&T.  Now I can browse the internet on my phone while on the bus. I have a new number now, but you'll have to email me or message me to get it because I don't feel like publishing my number on the internet.

Geek Heaven

Last night/this morning at about 12am I thought I had died and gone to geek heaven. Janson and I along with his sis and her boyfriend stood by our living room window to watch the fireworks shoot off the space needle. We tuned the radio to 101.5 where the musical accompaniment was being broadcast. 

(link to video (ignore the broadcasts cause they get paid to babble.))

So yeah, 2009 started off great for me.