2010 Unfurls - September through December
  
 
Friday Afternoon, September 3
Atop Lincoln Square in downtown Bellevue... Grace and Sabrina threw a little party...
 
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09-11-2010_Maki_Saki.JPG (399837 bytes) Saturday, September 11
With Maki and Saki at Claim Jumper in Redmond...
 
09-12-2010_Bill_Kathy.JPG (287904 bytes) Sunday, September 12
With Bill Noonan and Kathy in Kirkland. Bill and Kathy were visiting from Charlotte on Microsoft business...
 
 
Monday, September 13
 
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09-13-2010_04.JPG (425461 bytes) After a fine dinner at the Issaquah Brewery Bill made my Gibson Dove sound mighty fine...
 
 
09-15-2010_01.JPG (214479 bytes) Wednesday, September 15
I don't know...
 
09-19-2010_01.JPG (579798 bytes) Sunday, September 19
With Saki at the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery, just prior to stopping in at the Issaquah Brewery for Kobe Burgers...
 
09-21-2010.JPG (378739 bytes) Tuesday, September 21
Randy of Charlotte was in town on business and we enjoyed a fine dinner at Daniel's Broiler atop the Hyatt in downtown Bellevue...
 
 
Sunday, September 26
 
09-26-2010_01.JPG (260990 bytes) 09-26-2010_02.JPG (226259 bytes) 09-26-2010_03.JPG (395321 bytes) Chunhee and I attended a talk by Dinesh D'Souza and chatted with him briefly afterwards. Dinesh D'Souza is a brilliant man.
 
09-26-2010_04.JPG (230622 bytes) I bought Dinesh's current book The Roots of Obama's Rage...

Supporters of Obama must either be "true believers" of Marxist nonsense (in which case facts don't matter) or ignorant of the facts that Dinest D'Souza puts forward.
 

 
10-30-2010_00.JPG (849183 bytes) Sunday, October 17
Name these parts...
 
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Amy's Mother-in-Law's Birthday Bash and Halloween party...
 
november_2010_01.JPG (364685 bytes) Sunday, October 31
Red Robin in Redmond/Overlake... Strawberry Lemonade...
 

 
november_2010_02.JPG (339807 bytes) Friday, November 5
At Summit RV in Tacoma... new electric step unit to replace the unit damaged on September 13...

3119 84th St East
Tacoma, WA 98446
253.535.2266 - Don Vanderleur
 
november_2010_03.JPG (348377 bytes) Sunday, November 7
My work team moved from Studio-C to Studio-D...
 
november_2010_04.JPG (385622 bytes) Saturday, November 20
Bellevue Eastgate... I don't know...
 
 
Monday, November 22
The "commute" from Studio-D to Camp Commons...
 
november_2010_05.JPG (539147 bytes) Looking back at Studio-D...
 
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Tuesday, November 23
The early morning "commute" from Camp Commons to Studio-D...
 
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november_2010_14.JPG (380461 bytes) november_2010_15.JPG (333678 bytes) Facing east from Studio-D... over the 405, over the Microsoft Transit Center, toward the (obscured) Cascade Mountains...
 
november_2010_16.JPG (484782 bytes) The newly completed intersection between Camp Commons and Studio-C...
 
november_2010_17.JPG (321807 bytes) november_2010_18.JPG (318889 bytes) Wednesday, November 24
Facing east from Studio-D over the 405 and the office shared with Henry Lin...
 
 
Thursday, November 25 - Thanksgiving
 
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Grace's karaoke lounge... both of these gals are good singers!
 
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december_2010_01.JPG (420851 bytes) December 9
The Malt & Vine in Redmond... if they don't have it, you can probably get along without it...
 
december_2010_02.JPG (348087 bytes) Saturday, December 11
At Automotive Specialists in Tacoma... a new catalytic converter for Bigfoot...

11111 Golden Given Rd. East
Tacoma, WA 98445
253.536.9029 - Chris Marterella
 
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Studio-D... facing east toward the Cascade Mountains...
 
december_2010_05.JPG (330382 bytes) Saturday, December 18
Nancy at Northgate...
 
december_2010_06.JPG (430044 bytes) Wednesday, December 22
Studio-D...
 
Merry_Christmas_2010.jpg (400638 bytes) Thursday, December 23
The 2010 Christmas Card...
 
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In the days around this Christmas I spent time reconnecting (through Facebook and email) with about a dozen good friends that I had fallen out of touch with over the years. Hiromi Okumura married the professor (Chen-Ching), is a successful artist and now lives in Dublin, Ireland!

Other "found" friends included Charlotte Gant, Erik Christensen, Amy Brazell, Cheryll Dennehy, Courtney Camp, Tammy Brackett, etc...
 
 Friday, December 31
 
december_2010_10.JPG (265912 bytes) A nice little gift from Scott Stratton...
 
Around Camp Commons... and facing east from Studio-D toward the Cascade Mountains...
 
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Downtown Redmond in the evening...