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Thursday, March 7, Bellevue, WA Bigfoot's spot at the Trailer Inns RV Park... far right side... in the Eastgate section of Bellevue... |
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Thursday, March 7, Kirkland, WA The Russians on our Mozilla Firefox Mobile OS test team brought lunch for the group. Za vas, Ruski! |
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Saturday, March 9, 2013, Bellevue,
WA Crossroads... with Chanphen and Tequila the Chihuahua at the dog store... |
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Monday, March 11, 2013, Kirkland, WA At the Royal India restaurant... |
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Wednesday, March 13, Kirkland, WA Mozilla Firefox Mobile OS team lunch at the Olive Garden... |
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Thursday, March 14, Bellevue, WA At the he downtown Bellevue Transit Center. The ad on the back of the bus was for the Cirque du Soleil show, Amaluna, that Nancy and I saw on February 10... |
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Friday, March
15, 2013, Bellevue, WA At the downtown Bellevue Transit Center Starbucks with my Gibson Dove. I brought the guitar to work on this day to entertain the troops at the Mozilla Firefox Mobile OS Test office... |
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Friday, March
15, 2013, Kirkland, WA At Mozilla Firefox Mobile OS Test office... my Gibson Dove being passed around... 1st shot: Austin Miller 2nd shot: Sergey Arsenyev 3rd shot: John Hammink |
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Friday, March
15, 2013, Bellevue, WA At the downtown Bellevue Transit Center... lichens on a limb... |
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Beautiful Chenphen and Tequila at the Second Street Cabin... |
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John on the Gibson Dove... |
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Sunday, March 17, 2013, Bellevue,
WA Crossroads... biscuits & gravy, and Scotish fiddler Susan Burke and Dan Carollo... St. Patrick's Day... |
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013, Bellevue, WA Walking west on SE 37 St to the bustop... beside I-90... |
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013, Kirkland, WA Approaching the Mozilla Firefox Mobile OS Test office... |
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On the bus, approaching the downtown Kirkland Transit Center... |
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On the bus, homebound... through Kirkland... Bluetooth... Lake Washington... |
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Bellevue Transit Center... a short triple ristretto Americano with
splash room every morning at the Starbucks, and a little
breakfast... Catching
the 234 to Kirkland... |
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013, Bellevue, WA On the short walk along SE 37 St, from the bustop to the RV Park... |
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Saturday, March 30, 2013, Bellevue, WA At Crossroads, with Chenphen and Tequila... and the nicest weather since back in September... |
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Sunday, March 31, 2013, Redmond, WA I was parked at the Pony Express, uncovering my bike for the first time this season, when Amy Wyman pulled up for a surprise visit. The shot on her phone is from a couple of days back, when she had apparently been dowsed with color... |
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Monday, April 1, 2013, Bellevue, WA On the bus... westbound on Eastgate Way... the RV Park as seen from across I-90... |
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013, Kirkland, WA On the bus... homebound... through Kirkland... Bluetooth... Lake Washington... |
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Thursday, April 4, 2013, Bellevue, WA The bustop on SE 37th St, at the Outback and Albertson's, where I caught the 271 to downtown Bellevue... |
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Friday, April 12, 2013, Kirkland, WA in the Mozilla Firefox Mobile OS office... Natalya's birthday... Natalya brought a fine asortment of Russian delights for our morning enjoyment. At the table, from the left: Nick Davidson, Natalya Kot, Matt Levin, Deepa Subramanian, Mila Davydova, and Sergey Arsenyev. Fine workers, all! |
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As I drove over I-90 on 150th Ave SE, the right side of the rainbow seemed to touch down just about where the RV Park is... and a double arc was visible... |
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The left side of the rainbow seemed to touch down in the area behind the Lil' Jon restaurant, between Microsoft Advanta and Phantom Lake... |
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In this shot the right side of the rainbow appears to touch down in the area behind the Outback Steakhouse, where Ai-chan lived (back in 2009 and 2010)... |
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I pulled over at the Albertson's and took these shots as I walked over to the RV Park... |
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013, Bellevue, WA On my short morning walk bustop I noticed the first dandelions of the season at the "Ai-chan dandelion spot." Though just a patch beside SE 37th St, I love this spot... |
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Saturday, April 20, 2013, Redmond,
WA At Kid Valley with Chenphen. The Onion Rings are quite respectable here... not as good as the South 21 Drive-in in Charlotte, but close... |
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Sunday, April 21, 2013, Bellevue, WA The downtown Bellevue Transit Center... |
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Saturday, April 27, 2013, Bellevue,
WA At Crossroads. This fellow, Al Alto, was picking a version of "Hot Rod Lincoln" that I suspect would make Commander Cody and Bill Kirchen proud... |
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013, Kirkland, WA On the bus... Lake Washington. On a clear day the Olympic Mountains could be seen to the west.... |
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Monday, May 6, 2013, Bellevue WA Whilst standing at my Eastgate bus stop on this morning I observed a pupal metamorphis... a caterpillar cocoon... butterflies in the making. Springtime in full force... |
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013, Kirkland, WA A Mozilla Firefox Mobile OS test team lunch at the Great China restaurant... Our Q Analysts leader Tony Batista (1st shot, far left) was in town... |
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013, Kirkland, WA A blury photo from my last Mozilla Firefox Mobile OS test team lunch, at the Pizza Bank. A couple of weeks earlier I had informed our Q Analysts leader, Tony Batista, that I would be leaving the team to take a new job with the Microsoft Windows Phone group. On this day, Tony came up from the San Francisco Bay area to announce the change in leadership to the team. Friday, May 24, would be my last day on the Mozilla team... |
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Friday, May 24, 2013, Bellevue, WA Setting off from the RV park for my last day with the Q Analysts / Mozilla Firefox Mobile OS team... |
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Friday, May 24, 2013, Kirkland, WA As I left the Mozilla Firefox Mobile OS team office for the last time... My six months as Sr. Lead on this team was a fine experience. Working with Tony Batista, our manager at Q Analysts, was especially rewarding and I left feeling very appreciative of the opportunity to have worked on this project. I would be starting a new contract with the Microsoft Windows Phone group the following week... |
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Starting at the Triple X Rootbeer in Issaquah... |
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10 miles west of Ellensburg, off Elk Heights Road... |
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South of Ellensburg in Yakima Canyon, on the Yakima River... |
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Ellensburg, WA... |
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Heading back to the Seattle area, near Snoqualmie Pass... |
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Monday,
May 27, 2013, Tukwila, WA Memorial Day. Key Lime pie with beautiful Michiko at Bahama Breeze... |
