It’s been a seriously long time since the last weblog entry. Time flies.

SDK was visiting from Nashville, but she will be leaving today.
It snowed last night. Not all that much, but combined with the wind and cold the roads iced up and obviously cased a big mess.

Amanda had gone down to the aquarium yesterday afternoon with the Kai, and I meant to join them for dinner since Seattle University closed down for the evening, but I bailed before getting to the waterfront and then managed to get stuck going up the hill on Alaska near the library. Traction control on the Prius is problematic sometimes as it cuts power when it senses the wheels slipping which does not let you effectively rock out of some situations. I had to wait a bit since I was surround by cars and I did not wish to hit anything. Eventually things cleared enough that I spun the car around by bouncing backwards off of the curb and reversed directions down the hill. I managed to turn back on Rainier before a big truck that had spun out behind me and was doing 360s down the hill as it careened towards me. A wasted trip since I was on the road for almost two hours.

Sunny now though. I shoveled the back driveway (with the neighbor) and the front stairs and sidewalks. A lot of shoveling. Who would have thought I’d be doing it in the PNW?

I had my first day at school yesterday… the first time I have been in a classroom in a long long time. It was interesting.

I clearly needed a better attitude during my undergradate. Ah, well.

2010 SEP 12 : SUNDAY (continued)
I have been trying to get something working on my computer network and success is eluding me. Arrrgh.

The Kai slept a long time this afternoon, undoubtedly due to illness. I had thought we might be able to visit Amanda during a break in her conference schedule, but he slept through her break.

Later, the Kai and I went off to a hardware and grocery store. Or at least I tried to go to Home Depot in SODO. I was approaching the West Seattle Bridge and thought I could take the exit to 4th Ave, but, not, the exit no longer exists. Oops. I had to go all the way to West Seattle before turning around.

I decided to take 99 north and then back to Home Depot, but there isn’t really an exit until Seneca Street downtown. I wasn’t too alarmed at this development, and one can’t beat the view on the viaduct.

Unfortunately, I had no idea that a football game was going on and traffic in the area flat out sucked. We ended up being trapped in traffic for a long time. I should have just gone to the Home Depot in West Seattle. Fortunately, the Kai was in good spirits.

We ended up going to Lowe’s on my roundabout way home and also stopped at Safeway again.

Our neighbors surprised me in the evening when they came to my door; I was thinking it was some evangelist of some persuasion. They had two kitties and wondered if they were ours, but I thought they might be our other neighbors, since I see them frolicking in their yard, but perhaps they are just strays.