Category: Musings

I’ve espoused before about how “Rainy Seattle” is a myth used to keep people from moving here in droves. Given how it’s the fastest growing city in the country it obviously didn’t work!

Unfortunately this year Seattle seems to be living up to the ‘myth.’ Usually rain and clouds in this city are a temporary phenomenon. Rain is usually more of a mist, so much so that Seattleites don’t use umbrellas or rain boots – there’s usually no need. If you awaken one morning and it’s cloudy more often than not by the afternoon there will be nothing but blue skies. Even during the winter there is a large amount of sun – sometimes blindingly so (our windows face west and south). Continue reading “Rainy Seattle Myth = Reality?” →

It’s times like these that I am so glad I started this blog. It will be very interesting to look back on this post years from now and see how things turned out with the latest rage: Cryptocurrency. I first heard about Cryptocurrency when Bitcoin started getting press when I was still at Company 2 in 2012 and since then it has slowly grown in media attention and been joined by a host of new coins, some too ridiculous to believe (e.g. Garlic Coin anyone?) Continue reading “The Crypto Craze” →

Sooo I might be solar powered. Or Superman 🙂 . My mood is unusually (I think) effected by the weather. When it’s cold, dark and cloudy it’s harder for me to do just about anything. It also takes me to a dark place in my mind. I thought this was because of my hormones or some outside factor, but today proved me wrong. Yesterday was another dark and gloomy winter day (we’ve had an unusually cold and dark winter in Seattle this year) and I was feeling down. I tried to contemplate why and came up with a lot of possibilities – none of which was the weather. Continue reading “Solar Powered” →