In other news, it's snowing here again.

Ah, the joys of working at home. It's freeeeeezing out. This is very un-Seattle.

The view from my window:

The view of Tashkent Park from the front door:

Aw, crap.

Well, I thought my plan to take advantage of sky-high copper prices and melt down the craploads of accumulated pre-1982 pennies I have to sell as scrap metal was foolproof. Sadly, I was wrong. I can't even take them to Canada and do it there! Damn you, US Mint!!! I'm so depressed now. But not depressed enough to jump off the Aurora Bridge, as nine(!) people apparently have this year.

Snow in Seattle!

w00t! It's white outside.



The view from my window. OK, well, this picture is actually from the LAST notable snow day I was around for in Seattle, not today. It was back in 2004, and we sledded down a closed section of E. Harrison St. on cardboard boxes. We then let the lizards play with a snowball, which seemed to confuse the poor little desert creatures.



Anyways, it's snowing here. Time to get some hot chocolate going.

Condos, condos, condos

Apologies to all zero of my regular readers for my recent absence. Won't happen again, with any luck. Anyways, behold Vertigo: the most hideous condo development in Seattle, a block away from me. This monstrosity used to be a relatively quaint old apartment complex before the bloodsucking developers got their hands on it. There's a poster out front for it with some terrible slogan on the front, something like "In your game of tag, this is base". Between this, the Cha Cha, and the 5,392 other hideous condo developments going up in our neighborhood (which are all guaranteed to crumble after the mortgage is paid off, of course), is this the end of Capitol Hill? Will it turn into Belltown?

Addendum: a LiveJournal entry from a former occupant.