Entries Tagged as ‘the yes project’

February 7, 2009

Waiting for paint to dry.

January kicked my ass (not necessarily a bad thing, mind you). Then it somehow slipped away, and now I’m a week into February, looking up and saying, “Oh, hell–is it the seventh already?”
I won’t bore you with the details, but the highlight of last month was spending a few days in San Francisco, roaming around [...]

January 9, 2009

No, it never stops raining in Seattle. Ever.

Between pouring rain and snowmelt following the Christmas storms, western Washington State is a mess.
Seattle, at the moment, is an island. Both I-5 and I-90, the major freeways into the Puget Sound region, have been shut down, and probably will not re-open until Saturday or Sunday. Long stretches of I-5 are under floodwaters, and I-90 [...]

January 4, 2009

Snow. And books. And saying “Yes.”

Good lord–it is snowing again. Really snowing. And it’s been sticking ever since it started to fall at about 6:00 PM. The street is completely whited over, and my sad, hummocky mess of a lawn almost looks attractive (as snow hides myriad landscaping sins).
This means Seattle will once again be in a state of paralysis [...]