Kyoto was the capital of Japan for a while, and is a fascinating city seeped in tradition. My favorite parts of the city are the red pagodas and temples. Our bus took us to Kiyomizu Temple first, which has a large Buddhist temple built into the side of a mountain. It also has the Otowa [...]
So I left off when we went to go find a bar playing World Cup at 2:30a. We got super duper lost, but eventually made it to the place we saw earlier, Pop Masters. When we went in, we were greeted by super friendly bartenders. Dave got them to put the game on, and we [...]
Yesterday, I boarded a plane with Dave and his family. We spent the entire day traveling. Most of it was on Korean Air, which is a pretty good airline. The best part was the awesome entertainment systems, which also had USB chargers. Also there were cupholders. Why don’t all planes have cupholders? We’re staying at [...]
I’m back from Arizona, where we went rivertubing… but one of the best parts of the trip was getting there. Jose rented a 15 passenger white van, and chris taped “FREE CANDY” and a bunch of candy to the side of it. Watching reactions of people we passed was really entertaining. Saturday: 20 people and [...]
Thursday at lunch, Rob took me to Nordstrom Rack so I could get my anti-bridesmaid dress, and after work me and Dave headed over to Via Tribunali, which is regarded as the best pizza in Seattle (by Italians). I got to see a bunch of my old raver friends who I hadn’t seen in a [...]
The Seattle Sounders have more fans than any soccer league in America, and last night they played Barcelona. Our friends are part of a club that parties and cheers and sings through the whole game, complete with their own drummer, and we got to cheer along with them from 4 rows behind a net last [...]
I still need to really blog about ComiCon and DefCon but the two trips kicked my ass and I’m really behind work. We flew into Seattle last night, and Cheryl from Smore Travel and Cynthia from Login picked us up from the airport. We came to Rattus’s house and he baked us the best Ghiradelli [...]
I’m back from San Diego with 1200 photos and tons of great stories, but Defcon is this weekend so I’m super busy preparing for that. Dave just spent 2hrs dying all my blonde streaks bright bright pink, and I’m picking out photos to send to CBLDF and Archaia Comics.
Today was the first day of ComiCon for me. I started it out by waking up to Erin (@readiness) calling me– I’d overslept by two hours and she was waiting outside for quite a while. She bleached my hair as I delt with last minute ComiCon emergencies, and an electrician who was gonna make my [...]
Dave and I have been back for about a week. We just went to ToorCamp, which was a hacker convention out 3-4hrs east of Seattle. Seattle goes from beautiful waterfront to tree-lined mountains to harsh desert wasteland very quickly. Can you guess what climate we ended up in? The last time Mount St. Helens erupted, [...]
