Jeff’s Blog

Unless you’ve been under a rock, you probably know by now that it’s been snowing a lot (by Seattle standards) here. The view from my window,

It started to snow pretty hard right around 5pm last night. There was also a home Seahawks game last night. Snow and a game on top of [...]

My old friend Jeremy from college is up here in Seattle visiting with some other friends for a few days. Today, we all went over to the Woodland Park Zoo which I’d never visited before for a few hours. Unfortunately, the weather was not the greatest. In fact, the first snow of [...]

Lately, I’ve gotten this idea into my head that I might want to buy a new car. My current car is adequate and in good shape, but it’s not all that exciting or nice. It’s very much the practical car I bought when I was a poor grad student. Now that I’m [...]

I’ve been watching a lot of movies lately it seems.
Just before I left, I watched Cabaret. It was one of those movies I’d seen parts of several times, but never in its entirety. The Germanophile in me liked the view of 1930s Berlin while my stereotypical inner queen liked the musical [...]

I drove down to my parents’ house in Oregon for Thanksgiving this year. Both my brothers, my brother Kevin’s fiance, my grandfather and his girlfriend all drove up too, giving the whole thing pretty decent turnout. This was my first Thanksgiving with my family since 2001. Since then, I’ve always just been [...]

Washington state grows 75% of America’s hops which is particularly interesting considering the US only grows about 10% less hops than Germany (the unsurprising leader). So think of Washington the next time that bitter taste of beer hits your tongue.

It’s been a few days since I’ve posted. Usually that means either I’ve been really busy or that I’ve been doing absolutely nothing at all. Blog volume seems to be the highest when I’m doing just enough to have something to write about but not enough to be tight on blogging time.
Thursday night, [...]

fuck tha UCPD. They seriously must have nothing better to do than use excessive force on students. This is what happens when you give cops too many toys for a jurisdiction with not enough real crime apparently.
Well, it was nice when I was in college and I’d use their public phone to be [...]

For those who don’t already know, I’ll be flying down to southern California to visit my extended family for a few days around Christmas. This will be my first trip down there since my parents moved away, which means I no longer have the same accomodation options as with previous years. I’m sure [...]

There’s an interesting article in the Seattle Times today about how Seattle has the second highest percentage of people self-identifying as gay among major American cities. The underlying study estimates that number to be 12.9% (a bit more than 1 in 8 adults), slightly behind San Francisco’s 15.4%.