Jeff’s Blog

I went to Daniel Brown’s 4th annual Photo Safari today and I’m exhausted. It was a much less stressful affair than last year’s, almost entirely because this year I knew what to expect and how to safari better (i.e., more time planning, less time driving around). Amazingly, my team (consisting of Marc, Christian and myself) [...]

Today was the second time in two weeks that I’ve managed to ride my bike home from work. This time I had my trusty new Garmin Edge 705 bike computer to collect all the stats too. The distance door-to-door is 46.6 km in distance, 619 m of ascent and 614 m of descent. Those last [...]

It’s late and I should be sleeping, but I thought I’d do a quick update before heading off to bed.
The past few days have been really busy. Here’s a brief run-down:

Work’s been getting busier this week. I won’t go into details, but gears are predictably shifting once again with regard to what I’m doing on [...]

Yeah, my bike computer arrived! It was a close call–the UPS guy buzzed about 3 minutes after I got out of the shower today. It needs to charge for at least 3 hours before I can start playing with it, so I’ve plugged it in while I run off to race gokarts with my coworkers.

I can’t believe I’m still up, but alas I am. I’ve dealing with OutVentures volunteer website stuff all night. The good news is that the new site is basically done. The only thing I have left to do is copy the data from the old site’s database into the new site’s database. It’ll take some [...]

Thanks to C89.5, I now this damn song stuck in my head. Actually, I think the version on the radio is some sort of dick sucking dance remix.
Its origins (15 year old daughter of Billy Rae Cyrus) and the lyrics (high school girl awkward drama bullshit) disturb me.
Damn you Hannah Montana!

Today I decided I was going to ride my bike home from work. The weather this weekend is forecast to be cold and rainy (there may even be snow Friday night!), so I figured today was my best bet weather-wise. It actually turned out to be fine–50s and overcast the whole way, but no rain. [...]

I got a strange postcard in the mail today from Carena. They’re a healthcare company Microsoft contracts out to provide a 24 hour health line and house call service as an employee benefit. The front of the postcard has a picture of a young woman dressed in black scratching her arm with a grimace [...]

I stumbled across this list in a comment to a slog post.
Apparently King County (the county where Seattle and most of its surrounding suburbs like Redmond are located) is #12 on this list of counties with the highest percentage of residents who have drunk alcohol in the past month. It’s by far #1 on the [...]

On Sunday night, I got an email from the bike shop in Portland where I ordered the Garmin Edge 705 informing me that their inventory information was wrong and that my order had been canceled. Subsequent searching revealevd that practically nobody had it in stock online or locally. Eventually, I found another vendor [...]