Fresh coat of paint on the old blog

Slapped a new template on the blog. The old one dated to 2010 - when I launched it as a requirement by my employer to be given two weeks leave on five minutes notice -  and it was hideous even back then.  I'll probably change it again, but at least this template is not painful to look at it.

(Okay, it was technically a week notice, and it was because it was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to get a vacation in New Zealand for the cost of airfare, but it was still crazy generous of my employers to agree to it, which is one reason I'm still so very, very loyal to them today.  And, yes, it actually was a requirement - they wanted to live vicariously ;-)

Children's Museum at the Armoury

In the Seattle Center. Never had a reason to visit before, but the place is huge. K and I spent a couple hours there while filmmaker mommy did the SIFF events (talent scouting for the project she is working pre-production on).

http://thechildrensmuseum.org/

Playdate SEA

This place is awesome, especially since it can accommodate my small-building-size frame. We came here once while Kristi was doing her filmmaker thing.  Now, for our little one, this place IS Seattle. We can't get thru the city without stopping.

http://playdatesea.com

They have a three-story indoor jungle gym just for kids. Well, okay, not just for kids - it's sturdy enough that even I can crawl through it, which is great when there aren't enough other kids around to entertain K, and she needs daddy to be the other kid.

Folklife Festival at Seattle Center

Holy crap, it's crazy here today, despite the weather.

Awesome events, booths everywhere, kiddo loved the live music.  There was some kind of odd India-club dance event going on at the Armoury, and kiddo totally loved the music, and even wanted to get out on the dance floor to rock out to it.

http://www.nwfolklife.org/

Happy New Year 2015!

What great start to the New Year!

First was the Pacific Science Center - kiddo loved the butterflies and the animatronic dinosaurs.

Next was the Great Wheel - the city is gorgeous after sundown, especially with so many holiday / Christmas display still up.

Finally, we discovered the Super Jump Party Zone in Auburn. Kiddo loooooooves her bouncing.

Happy New Year!

#happynewyear

Traveling again

Well, okay, not so much traveling again, as really just experimenting with posting on the blog again. Let's see what happens.

Dreams and Dragons: The Cursed-Disco-Ball-McGuffin Adventure!

I love computers; they are literally completely brain dead. 

For example, I just posted a comment to Dreams and Dragons: The Cursed-Disco-Ball-McGuffin Adventure! and the entire text of my remark was "A fun read :)"

The brain dead computer prompted me: "Prove you're not a robot. Enter the text from the image."

No worries, of course, and I'm not criticizing the Google programmers or program managers for such a brain dead algorithm - let's face it - spambots are a huge problem. I'm merely poking fun at how dumb computers are.

Now, I expect that before my child graduates high school, optical character recognition algorithms will have advanced to the point they can defeat these human-readable, but not machine-readable, images.

But, that's a different problem.