Staring school in the morning is cruel

Finally a doctor standing up for some common sense. Teenager's brains don't really start functioning until at least 10am. I knew it wasn't just me :-)

Snow again

The weather has decided to grace Seattle with a bit more of the white stuff. It wasn't quite as bad as the last time around since it stayed above freezing until after the commute was done. However the office was pretty empty today as most people stayed home. I braved the treacherous sidewalks to come in to the office where there is actually food. I really need to go grocery shopping, but the 911 isn't going anywhere till the roads thaw or I get snow tires.

Josh from the Something Awful forums has very sound advice for my neighbors and some good excuses of why this is a big deal here. Seriously if it actually snowed on a regular basis here no one would have built a city here. Or they would have at least flattened all of the hills before they did. Also King county might have more plows than Dane county since they have about 10 times the population.

My coworker Andy took some pictures of the actually decent amount of snow he got out in the boonies.

My name was in the paper

This is the story about the Running Fool in the Oregonian I was talking about in the last post.

Human Baton/Running Fool Seattle to Portland

Sunday was the day for me to help the Running Fool on the penultimate leg of his journey. I dragged myself out of bed at O'dark thirty, which this being Seattle in the winter was about 7:30. I got cleaned up and ready to go. I gave Luke a call and he was at a diner in Wallingford, so I looked up directions on Google Maps and headed out.

Luke was waiting with his brother when I got there. We loaded Luke's stuff in my car, said goodbye to his brother and hit the road. Traffic wasn't too bad, but it was raining the entire way down to Portland. The tires on my car really don't deal with standing water very well so it was a bit of tense drive down with lots of little hydroplaning incidents. Luke was pretty tired and slept most of the way down.

We got to Portland right on time around noon. With one wrong turn aside we found the Kennedy School with little trouble. The Kennedy School is a very cool place. It is an old elementary school that they have turned into a bunch of bars and restaurants. It was even one of the stops for Dave Attell when he was in town doing his Insomniac show.

The people driving Luke from Portland to Eugene were already there waiting for us. We had a nice lunch and a reporter from the Oregonian was there asking us questions. I guess we are going to be in the paper tomorrow. Many pictures were taken by others, but I didn't take any. I'll post links when they others post their photos someplace.

Luke wanted to get to Eugene by four, so we wrapped up lunch around two and I headed back to Seattle. Thankfully the rain had let up and it was a much easier drive back.

It was a fun day and the 911 is pretty nice for long runs when there isn't standing water on the roads. I'm glad I was able to be involved in this amazing trip.

New URL

I'm taking advantage of the new custom domain feature of Blogger and this blog is now at http://blog.halfast.com/ the old URL will redirect to this new URL.

Ze Frank is a genius

I really like Ze's explanation of what causes a hangover.