So Seattle

After many months of anticipation I finally got a chance to "Ride the Wave" - which was a little less than what I thought it would be. Don't get me wrong - I think that it will do wonders to help Seattle grow in the future, but after this ride it gives me the feeling of the Seattle Center Monorail - it doesn't really serve an incredibly practical purpose. Apparently once they start the other lines and extensions this will be the way to travel, but I am a little iffy about it right now. It was $2.50 per way from the Westlake station to the airport which really isn't that bad, I suppose. I did a round trip pass today because I was only going to drop my partner and puppy off at the airport - and I suppose for five dollars this is a pretty cheap way to go - but I just felt like I was missing something.

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Parking TicketSince the start of 2010, I've received four parking tickets: one for parking my monster truck too far away from the curb, one for parking a previously-zoned and permitted car outside of the restricted area, and two because the meter expired. The latter of the two involved a parking ticket at a thrift store and an argument with a hefty, scowling woman with a Segway who looked as if she stepped out of a Mockumentary on Meter Maids. Despite my best efforts and my obvious skill at the English language (NOT), I lost the argument and was still ticketed for $39.00 for the aggrevious error of not cutting in line at the thrift store as I waited in line behind an indecisive and drugged-up tranny.


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So it's that time of the year again... you hate life, summer is almost over, and you feel as though you will never get even a short break from the day to day. Well, maybe its time for a little Staycation - and the best place to spend this time can be found at Snoqualmie Casino. You do not need a lot of time or to spend a lot of money to have a nearby staycation with a lot of fun for you and your chosen company. In fact, all you need is a few hours to let the Casino melt your bad feelings, and stressful work life, away (at least for a short while).

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Halloween is right around the corner and as such I figured everyone deserves an early little food scare. I'm not talking about razor blades in the candy, or rat poison in the popcorn balls - I'm talking about genetically modified food - the stuff we eat every single day, without even knowing it.

What is GMO (genetically modified organism) food, exactly? Well as I am not a scientist I can not tell you EXACTLY what it is but I can tell you a little bit I learned about the creation of such food. The food is first taken to a lab where they take it and infect it with viruses or bacteria that have a special DNA sequence they would like to infect the plant with. They then "activate" this DNA to have the spliced properties that were previously selected. The whole things is kind of complicated and creepy.

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