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After a year of being in Spokane full-time, I’ve decided to re-establish a residence in Seattle so that I can be closer to my business partners and work with them in person more often. That’s not to say that I will be leaving Spokane behind. In fact, I will keep my primary residence in Spokane. I found a nice little furnished cottage to rent in the Greenlake neighborhood of Seattle. Yay! No more apartments. At some point, I plan to buy a house in Seattle or a live-aboard boat.
September 4th, 2008
Last year, I published a list of all the Gay Pride events in the Pacific Northwest and I decided to make it a tradition for 2008. So here’s the list of this year’s celebrations around the Northwest:
Idaho
Montana
Oregon
Washington
British Columbia, Canada
May 9th, 2008
My decision has been made and I have chosen to move to Spokane by the end of October. There are things I’m looking forward to in Spokane, and things I’m going to miss about Seattle. Here’s my list:
Things I’ll miss about Seattle:
- Living on Lake Washington
- Being close to Vancouver, BC and Portland
- Friends I’ve made in the past 2 1/2 years
- Eating at Bing’s, Jamjuree and Broadway Grill
- Whole Foods Market
- Kayaking on Lake Union
- Bald Eagles in the Washington Park Arboretum
- Being close to my brother & sister-in-law
- Mild weather
- Shopping in downtown Seattle
Things I’m looking forward to in Spokane:
- Living in a quiet single-family home on the South Hill
- Still being close to Seattle, Portland and Vancouver, BC
- Being close to my good friends in Spokane
- Eating at Europa, Wild Sage and Herbal Essence Cafe
- Rocket Market
- Kayaking on the Columbia River and area lakes
- Living close to Manito Park
- Living a block away from my sister and her family
- Great downhill skiing
- Saving money so I can afford to buy things when I go shopping in downtown Seattle
I will continue my participation with groups such as Ski Buddies and OutVentures in Seattle, plus I will still have business in Seattle and will visit often.
October 22nd, 2007
For several weeks (if not months), I’ve been thinking about my living situation here in Seattle. I no longer have an office or corporate job tying me to the Seattle area and have been asking myself the question: is it time to leave Seattle?
Fundamentally, there is nothing wrong with Seattle. In fact, I’ve grown to like the city a little more in the past year. What it’s coming down to for me is mainly the cost of living here. Without a regular paycheck, it can get expensive to live here, not to mention the cost of buying real estate in this area. I also have opportunities in Spokane, both for business and social growth. Over the next few weeks, I will be giving it serious thought.
October 3rd, 2007
Just as I was leaving the office Friday evening, I saw a bunch of emergency vehicles outside. I went across the street to find one of the local floating homes on fire. Here’s the photo of the fire I captured with my cell phone:
June 23rd, 2007
It’s like Christmas for gay people: Gay Pride. At any rate, pride season is here, starting the second weekend in June and ending the second weekend in August. Here’s a roundup of all gay pride events in the Pacific Northwest:
Idaho
Montana
Oregon
Washington
British Columbia, Canada
May 13th, 2007
In my commitment to community building in Seattle, I have been organizing a meetup group for sea kayakers in Seattle… now I have started a meetup group for sea kayakers in the gay community. I have not been able to locate a GLBT kayaking club anywhere in the Seattle area, so through starting the meetup I hope to see if there’s interest in the community to forming a GLBT kayaking club here. Portland has it’s own successful sea kayaking club, OutKayaking, so it’s possible that such a club could be successful in Seattle. Anyone interested in joining the Seattle GLBT Sea Kayaking Meetup can sign up for free. I will continue to organize the Seattle Area Sea Kayaking Meetup as well as lead a kayak trip or two through OutVentures.
April 15th, 2007
…and giving up my complaint about Seattle being socially frigid.
Spring is just around the corner here in the Emerald City and I have some exciting things happening in my life. I’ve chosen to give up my constant complaining about my social situation in Seattle and start meeting people and building community. Here is what I’m up to:
- The Seattle Area Sea Kayaking Meetup: I am the organizer for this group of just over 90 sea kayakers. I’m looking forward to planning trips and meeting new people in the area who share my interest in kayaking.
- OutVentures: This is the gay and lesbian outdoor group in Seattle. I joined the group last summer and plan on going on some kayaking, hiking and camping trips with the group. I plan on organizing some kayaking trips with this group as well.
- The Landmark Forum In Action seminar: I took the Landmark Forum before I moved to Seattle and decided to take this seminar to help me start creating new possibilities here in Seattle.
March 9th, 2007
Homophobia in the NBA has hit home in Seattle.
According to this article written by Seattle Times columnist David Postman, two principal owners of the NBA Sonics and the WNBA Storm were the top contributors to the conservative organization Americans United to Preserve Marriage. Because of the homophobic bigoted views of the owners, the Seattle Sonics have just lost me as a fan… so I shall look to my past in Portland and once again become a fan of the Portland Trail Blazers.
This story is bad news for the Sonics, especially at a time when they are looking to the Washington State Legislature to help them build a new arena. I doubt that most conservative legislators would support tax increases for this new arena, and with this added news, I think the Sonics would lose support from liberal legislators. On top of that, I would imagine that the Storm organization will also lose longtime support from the GLBT community.
February 28th, 2007
The Alaskan Way Viaduct has cast it’s shadow on the Seattle waterfront for more than 50 years and has reached the end of it’s useful life. It’s time for this big ugly nightmare to end, but city and state goverment can’t seem to decide on any real alternative to fix the problem. The state of Washington would like to rebuild this double-decker monolith with an even taller, wider monster. Seattle mayor Greg Nickels would like to bury the freeway underneath Alaskan Way in a tunnel which would be narrower than the current viaduct.
They just don’t seem to get it.
Seattle, a city with a reputation for protecting the enviroment and looking to alternative forms of transportation, needs to widen their view of the world and find a REAL alternative to rebuilding this highway. Both San Francisco and Portland removed freeways and opened up their waterfront areas and provided alternative transportation methods… why can’t Seattle?
The viaduct needs to go… no tunnel… and absolutely no elevated highway.
February 27th, 2007
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