Monthly Archives: August 2011

Uber Car Service in Seattle

We were going out for our Tuesday date night for dinner and then going to Eric’s movie showing, so we figured we’d have too many drinks tonight for driving, so we decided to use a taxi. While waiting for Gay to get ready, I remembered that Uber launched in Seattle a couple weeks ago, so [...]

Why Comcast Sucks

We’ve been Comcast customers for over 10 years (Technically, we’ve been customers before that as we were AT&T @Home customers that was acquired by Comcast). We recently moved and got Comcast at the new house. Because of Comcast’s “internal systems”, as their customer service people refer to it, this requires that they close the old [...]

Hudson’s 3rd Birthday Party

We had Hudson’s birthday party today. Several of his classmates from preschool, a neighbor, Harry, who is just a few weeks older than Hudson and Mark brought his kids over to meet Havana and Hudson. We pulled out the bouncy house, Gay made a very cool dinosaur cake and we had the party in the [...]

Happy Birthday, Hudson!

Today Hudson turned 3. He still loves dinosaurs, cars, trucks and now tools. He’s played with my tools so much that we got him a toy power tool set for his birthday that he likes to use. He’s become his own person in the last year, no longer just following Havana around and doing what [...]

Eva at 8 months

Eva is 8 months old today. She scoots around on the floor pretty well these days, not up on her knees crawling around, but she’s quick nonetheless. She can feed herself finger food and like Havana and Hudson, loves Mum Mums. She is just starting to learn to wave goodbye. Eric happened to be in [...]

Door pulls finally finished

We’ve been waiting for weeks for the door pulls to be built. We had 12th Ave Iron make one for the pantry door and Twisted Metalworks made four for the attic doors. We used the same design for all of them, but wanted to see how different the two companies would make them. They both [...]

Second-guessing myself

The forms came off the concrete walls last week and every day that I looked at them I was worried that they didn’t fit the house the way we wanted them to. I kept it to myself all week but couldn’t get over it. The original plan for the decks, as designed by the architects, [...]

Neighbors

We delivered gifts of wine and chocolate to neighbors whose property adjoins ours to thank them for putting up with construction for the last year and to apologize in advance for the noise coming tomorrow. We met some new people. 2 people grew up in the DC area, 1 lives there half the year (all [...]

First month in the house

It’s been almost a month since we moved in and we’re still unpacking and there’s still people walking around the house finishing minor things. The weekends are nice when no one is here working, but I enjoy seeing the daily progress. I spent a couple days installing perforated aluminum in the garage walls. It looks [...]

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