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bye bye taxes, hello old commute

tax season is ovah!

so, after her tax day celebration with her former employer yesterday, carrie & i stopped by Duck Island pub before heading home. (good beer had, btw.)

and now i’m back to riding the bus or train into and out of downtown seattle for my commute. it’s weird going back. i also realize that it’s very difficult to wake up earlier so i can get the train. i’ve got to work on that.

so now our plans include brewing a beer to celebrate the demise of the tax season, and start working on the house – gangbusters. also, we should get out and about once in a while and have some fun.

and i have some ambitious plans as far as this and my other websites go. i really want to break this out so that mikeyboy.com is just about me & us & dog & cats & fish & house & etc. and have a separate URL & blog for the car, and one where i can rant about varied & sundried things relating to technology and the internet and whatever else strikes my fancy.

so stay tuned. i am most certain i will not shake up the ‘blogosphere’ with my nonsensical babbling. but maybe i can throw some context-based advertising on and make a buck or two. (yes, it will probably only be a buck or two.).

Skagit Valley Tulip Festival 2006

we went to the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival yesterday, April 8th 2006. below you can find a link to a Flickr photoset with 115 images.

the big fields immediately surrounding Roozengaarde weren’t planted, so they don’t have them open to go wander around in. but the presentation gardens were full of variety as always and it was an absolute mob scene.

mikeyboy.com’s skagit valley tulip festival 2006 photoset

photo galleries are back

i’ve put some of my photo galleries back online, courtesy of flickr. these were popular when i first put them up, now you can all use flickr’s interface (and bandwidth) to see them again.

Portland International Rose Test Garden, 2003

Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, 2003

enjoy!

and i don't even care, to shake these zipper blues

And I donï¿½t even care to shake these zipper blues
And we donï¿½t know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed
into the earth below

back to my old style: musical reference & summary of recent activities (office project, brewing, house project, cats). who’s that on the iPod?

guess who's peeking?

it’s the cascades!

ted

ted lost his fight with cancer today.

nora & me

i know, i don’t post many pictures of myself. i’m humble, that way. to appease those who don’t like this policy – here’s a few shots with my girl-kitty, nora.

picture of nora and i

no hi-res versions. more therapy is needed, first.

kitties in the sun

posted up a flickr photoset of cat pictures we took sunday. it was sunny for a time, and we opened the blinds in the bedroom, which drew the cats to the bed like … cathair to … everything.

sunny in seattle in january – no, seriously!

here’s an after/before out the window of my cube, on the left is today (january 24th, 2006) and the right was a week ago.

picture out the window of my cubicle of a sunny day and a cloudy day

same camera, no lens/exposure adjustment (cheap, cheap camera).

now you see why people here get Seasonal Affective Disorder? when the sun leaves, it takes all the color away.

sally suddenly obsessed with fish

just a quip to share with you. let’s all mark our calendars: the 17th day of January, in the year 2006 — the day which the dog became aware of the fish.

shortly after this picture was taken, i had to line the floor with a towel to catch the drool/slobber (droobber?)

i don’t generally have a problem with this, but if she suddenly lunges at the tank, we’ll have about 29 gallons of water to deal with, all over the living room floor.

not that i’m a big fan of the living room floor, mind you. but i prefer to keep the fishtank water inside the fishtank. call me ‘old-fashioned.’

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