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Tuesday, September 16 With Nancy at Bellevue Square Mall... |
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Saturday, October 11 Ai and Mamasan at Mamasan's new (not yet open) restaurant in downtown Bellevue... |
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Friday, October 17 Nancy... Bellevue Square Mall... Nine West.. |
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We came upon a garter snake... |
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Sunday, October 26 Michiko Iwaya and Ai at Mamasan's new (almost open) restaurant, Osaka Kitchen, in downtown Bellevue... |
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At Avocent... My workmate Craig Van Hook facing the zombie in the first shot (with his back to the camera), and our boss Eric Bisset attempting to reason with the same zombie in the second shot... |
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Nancy... |
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With Michiko Iwaya and her host sister at the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, and in Bigfoot... |
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Saturday Morning, November 1 I slipped and buckled my left knee walking into the garage area of Camping World in Fife/Tacoma. And I was just getting over having done the same thing 3 weeks earlier at the Bridle Trails Bally Gym Bellevue. An acupuncture session Saturday evening with Chunhee provided relief... |
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Monday, November 3 In the morning I observed this mushroom pushing up from the ground beside my daytime parking spot at Advanta, and in the late afternoon a rainbow was visible during my short drive from Avocent to Bally Gym at Bridle Trails. And in the evening, more acupuncture for my sore knee... |
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Bally Gym, at Bridle Trails in Bellevue. The 2008 presidential election was being called at about the time I pulled into the parking lot. It had been obvious for some time that a great fraud was being perpetrated on a large swath of the American people, so Obama's win was hardly a surprise. Still, it was sadly shocking to see it actually unfold... |
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This was a bad day for America. |
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Wednesday, November 5 Mushrooms at Avocent... life goes on... |
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Saturday, November 8 With Chunhee at Cabela's in Lacey, WA... |
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Sunday, November 9 With Ai at Bellevue Square Mall... Ai found a guitar she liked! |
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Ai and Yuki outside Osaka Kitchen at Bigfoot, and back inside... |
- From: Jan Hamilton
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:23 AM
To: 'Steve Thompson'
Subject: RE: DrawPlus
Thank you for sending the link. We are trying to get Will to wait on downloading it though. Our computer is so slow, but Marda and Bill are planning to buy us a new one for Christmas. The boys don’t know that, so he does not understand why we want him to wait. I am hoping he will forget about it for a while. It sounds like it will be just what he wants. He is practicing for his career in video game design. How many boys hope to do that when they grow up I wonder??
We have had a very very sad morning. At about 6:00 AM Slash made a strange crying noise. Matt went right to him outside of our bedroom and he was starched out and not breathing. It must have been a heart attack or brain problem. He was just fine and even running around playing during the night. Just yesterday we all commented on how great Izzy and Slash were doing together and we said it would not be long before they were friends. Ryan and Will always gave Slash so much attention, Ryan even tried taking him for a walk last week (that did not go so well, but he was determined to try). Will is the biggest cat lover in this house and this will be very hard for him. I let them stay home from school today and have a family day because we were all very upset this morning. As you know, cats are truly family members so our hearts are very sad to have lost such a funny and cool cat like Slash. You know he took very good care of Smithers also - I don’t think Smithers realizes slash is gone yet. Oh, I could just go on and on ….
I hope you have a good day and we will talk to you soon.
Jan
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Looking back - July 3, 2006 Will and the young Slash... |
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Looking back - July 3, 2006 Slash was a patriotic young kitty... |
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Tuesday Evening, November 18 More acupuncture with Chunhee... |
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Thursday, November 20 Lunchtime gathering at Avocent... |
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From:
Brian
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 10:13 AM
To: Steve
Subject: Howdy -
- Hope you're doing well, I wanted to drop you a line with a little update. Yesterday was my last day at the ol' General Tire. Me and about 100 others were able to hang around for the last 2 and a half years and watch as they tore all the machinery out and transform the place into a warehouse. I had a good run of it out there for over 28 years and feel blessed and a little bit lucky through it all. My official lay-off date is my 49th birthday. After that I will be able to get signed up with a federal program that allows for people losing their jobs due to outsourcing to go to "school" to learn something new. It pays for training and unemployment insurance for up to 2 years for qualified programs. There are a lot of qualifications and stipulations involved so I will be making an appointment for a "one on one" with them soon. We all knew it was coming for a long time and I am much better off than most, I most definitely realize this. New chapters can be better chapters... Take it easy and let me hear from ya soon...
