All Things Chill

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
~John Muir
You can find the photoset here: Half Dome – Yosemite California. There’s WAY too much to post from last weekend (not to mention it’s 3AM already), but here are some deets:

I didn’t make it to the top of the hike, but Liana and [...]

Liana and I are all packed and ready to go to Yosemite via Oakland Airport. See you on Monday! Expect pics and embarrassing video soon!
~Spec

(via Samuel) You are in a mall when the zombies attack. You have:
1. One weapon.
2. One song blasting on the speakers.
3. One famous person to fight alongside you.
Weapon can be real or fictional; you may assume endless ammo if applicable. Person can be real or fictional.
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1. A Pokemon: Torchic
2. Incubus – Pardon Me (“while I [...]

Deb, Matt, Stacy and I celebrated Liana’s birthday yesterday! WOO HOO. Among other things, we had dinner at Umi Sake House, which is a pretty hip sushi joint in the Belltown district of downtown Seattle. It’s got a really chill vibe – wood flooring, live plants as dividers and lots of sunlight [...]

I ordered the Antec earthwatts EA380 380W ATX12V v2.0 Power Supply earlier this week on Jason’s recommendation because my desktop PC was dead. Honestly, I built the thing from Jason’s leftover computer parts WHILE HE STILL LIVED IN ROSELLE. WOW.
Two major city moves and close to 5 years later, the thing is still [...]

While the day at the Fremont Solstice Festival was nice an warm, the afternoon was quickly covered by clouds. The temperature must’ve dropped around 15 degrees – light hoodie weather. S’all good, I picked up chili ingredients! Thanks to Gary and Jason for the verbal support. Hee hee.
First I diced a [...]

I’ll keep this short. I went to my neighborhood’s annual Solstice festival today and the only thing that’s worth even talking about is this car covered in floppy discs. Epic community fail. LOL.
I’m skipping this every year. I promise.
~Spec

The German Wustof 8” Grand Prix II Chef’s Knife and the Japanese Shun Classic 6” Utility Knife. Video blog forthcoming. Hee hee.
Everyone’s got their vices, right?
~Spec

I had a can of lump crab meat sitting in the fridge for a while and while I tried my hardest to convince Liana that making straight up crab cakes wouldn’t be THAT bad for you (egg’d, flour’d, panko’d and fried)… she wasn’t having it. It’s hard swaying her when she has so much [...]

LOL. Liana and I have been gearing up for out Half Dome hike in Yosemite in two weeks (EEEEEEE). We’ve gone to the flagship REI here in Seattle (huge and awesome) to try on shoes, pick up Nalgenes (hers blue, mine red) and find other things we might need for the long haul. [...]

Been listening to a lot of music lately! I’ll keep it concise, food-related (and random). Prepare yourselves. LOL.
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Weezer – Red Album
Speakers: good for the commute home from work, being awkward in high school and air guitar-ing.
Headphones: looking through old yearbooks.
Highlights: #4 Heart Songs is cheesy / [...]

Slashfood.com, one of the original and most regularly updated food blogs, used one of my pics in a news post yesterday! WHOOPIE! Sure, it’s about salmonella… and it’s a bowl of cereal… but who cares! WOOO HOOO!
Thanks Shayna for using it!
~Spec

If you refresh your browser on my site, you’ll see that I’ve done some minor changes to the header of the blog – the header graphic and a new “SHARED ITEMS” link. It’s not a redesign per se, ’cause I would totally take the grey + orange away if IT WARMED UP HERE IN [...]