A few weeks ago, I drove up to Seattle with Lacy and her family to help her move to grad school. It was a long drive, but a good one.

Here are some photos from Seattle.

The Puget Sound

Pike Place Market. Oh wow, oh wow.

If only I could be as talented as one of this guy’s feet.

We ate a Crêpe.

Olympic National Park

I know what it looks like, but she doesn’t actually make me uncomfortable. I’m just squinty.

Sometimes, strangers are helpful to keep around to hold cameras.

Last monday, I started driving up to Seattle, WA with Lacy and her parents to help her move in. She is about to start the Counseling Psychology program at Mars Hill Graduate School. We got there on Wednesday. I’m now sitting in Denver International Airport during a layover on my way to Kansas City.

Seattle is wooing me. A great, environmentally conscious, diverse city with great public transit sitting in the shadow of mountains. Most impressivily, Mt. Rainier.

I’ve got some photos, but I gotta go stand in line to board the plane.

Someday, if I own a small business, I already know how I will handle taking payments. I know it’s super nerdy, but I’m okay with that, and I need to get it out of my head and written somewhere.

Square is wonderful system that allows small business owners to receive payments easily using mobile devices. And I recently learned that iPhone/iPad apps can be built to interact with other apps. I would build a lovely in-house app that would serve the business’s needs, and then interact with the Square app to handle payments.

I know it’s nerdy, but I like it.

Lately, I’ve been going trying to go to the gym in the morning three times a week to reduce my chances of future back problems. And so I don’t look like this kid when I’m in my mid-twenties. But I hope to feel like he feels in that picture. I think he needs a cape, or at least a towel tied around his neck like a cape.

Getting up early is really hard sometimes. Especially when I go to watch DVRed LOST with friends later at night and then do something else, like write, like tonight.

Time for sleep.

Last week, I had the pleasure of doing a photoshoot for room 201. For some reason, in this house of 40 college guys, a room will sometimes want a special photoshoot. Well, they had been asking me to do it all last semester, and we never had a time when everyone could. So, when we figured out that this past Saturday worked, I had to oblige.

So, here they are.

Owen

Danny

Trent

Charlie