In Which I Write About Several Things

Dan | January 30, 2008

- Seattle is a fun city, especially if you rent a car and they upgrade you from “Chevrolet Cobalt or similar” to a spankin’-new Volvo with seat warmers.
- Coastal Kitchen is good lunch, Loki Cafe not-bad breakfast, and the Irish pub in Wallingford might be the best place in the world to sit by [...]

One thing I know

Dan | January 22, 2008

After looking through Business Week’s list of the cheapest-rent cities in the country, there’s one very good reason that those rents are cheap.

One thing I don’t understand

Dan | January 18, 2008

People who come into coffee shops with a leather jacket, expensive piercings (nose and expanded ears) tattoos, PowerBooks, and Iphones, who go right to a table, get some free water from the little water jug, then sit down and start doing stuff.
Never ordering a thing. That’s just plain rude. Similar things have happened [...]

More writing

Dan | January 8, 2008

Hey, I started to rewrite again today. Granted, it took me until three and I’ve barely spent an hour at it, but at least I’m back in the game after nearly a month of doing other junk. I often wonder how fast I could do this writing thing if I didn’t distract myself…

Movie blogging

Dan | January 7, 2008

I went to the movies yesterday by myself. Depressing first sentence, huh? Really, it’s not that big of a deal; it was raining, I had some time to myself, and I managed to hit a matinee and a followup and bring my own food. AMC didn’t make much off of me.
Two [...]

Places and cities

Dan | January 2, 2008

I always like the places/cities blog meme. Cities I spent nights in in 2007
San Francisco, CA
Redwood City, CA
Los Altos, CA
North Shore, Oahu
Hololulu, Oahu, HI
Lima, Peru
La Paz, Bolivia
Camping on the trail, Bolivia
Random Salt Flat Towns, Bolivia
Cuzco, Peru
Aguas Calientes, Peru
Ollantaytambo, Peru
Death Valley, CA (camping)
New York, NY (night spent in JFK airport - fun!)
San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Copan, [...]