kelly
kelly is our oldest kitty; we adopted him when we still lived in massachusetts.
picture of kelly sleeping in the laundry… he looks warm
picture of kelly sleeping on his catnip mat
teddy
teddy is a siamese mix, and he’s our biggest cat. we fostered his group, and it turns out we couldn’t stand to part with him. teddy is one of 2 cats we’ve kept from fostering (out of more than 150 so far…)
picture of teddy on the bed, with kelly in the background
book list
i’ve begun keeping track of the books that i’ve read (most since january of 2003, a few from 2002). this is perhaps the greatest unforseen gift of public transportation: time to read.
web dev books
a few web dev books recommended to me by a friend. (i’m working on making the transition from CSS1 to CSS2.)
http://www.simplebits.com/publications/solutions/
http://www.simplebits.com/publications/bulletproof/
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/books/css-tdg/
love my blog notepad. 🙂
add to this a good article about pocket-PC compatible websites: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/pocket
K's Beverage House & Deli
were in the area, decided to check out K’s Beverage House & Deli.
short answer: an unsuspecting place in a plaza in the heart of bellevue to get a great sandwich and a great pint. 12 taps? 5 IPA’s on tap when were visited, including a dry-hopped IPA from elysian that was surprising & amazing.
their bottled selection is huge — however, a lot of this stuff has been here for a long time. several of the 12oz bottles we bought had gone bad. i would stick to the fresh stuff.
Brouwer's Cafe
stopped by Brouwer’s Cafe in the afternoon, for some beer & frites.
let me say, that this place is like the penultimate sophisticated beer bar. the entire place smacks of no-expense-spared kinda excess, in all the good ways. the custom stainless work for the bar back, the taps, the glass washers, the custom coolers that show off the mind-boggling collection of bottled beers. it’s crazy.
it’s like a dotcom kid went crazy with the venture capital and bought all top-of-the-line stuff. let’s hope it doesn’t peter out when the seed money dries up.
abe update
an update on abe.
i know i haven’t posted since june 27th.at that time, he weighed 8 ounces…
this is abe now — August 10th.
he now weighs 1lb 12oz. when he gets to 2 pounds, he’ll be big enough to get fixed, and then after he recovers — he can go in to be adopted!
the stump
so, guess who won the battle between me & the stump?
updated with progressive photos of the stump’s removal. the first picture represents our efforts after having burned/hacked/sawed 1/3 of the stump away. (once we got one root off, the rest got easier).
in total the stump represented at least 1200 pounds that we hauled to the dump.
picture of the stump, 1/3 gone
abe
this is abe. he’s one of our foster kittens. he currently weighs 8oz and is 5-6 weeks old. (about 1/2 the size he should be).
this is why we foster. you know who else was this size when we got him? our teddy.
purrfect pals is the shelter we volunteer for, if you’re interested in helping out yourself, adopting a cat, or making a donation.
take the way home, leads back to sullivan street
take the way home
that leads back to sullivan street
past the shadows
that fall down wherever we meet
pretty soon now
i won’t come around
the counting crows on the ipod (4th gen, 20gb). good stuff.
so, what’s new?
not a lot. been working quite a bit. they sent me on another trip to california, that was fun.