Unlike the vast majority of cross-lake commuters in Seattle, I was out on the roads this afternoon. At Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Carnegie Mellon University held an event called Network Night Seattle where I got to meet several of my fellow alumni, the Dean of the School of Computer Science, and a few staff […]
What started in the East will finish in the West.
This was 2006, a momentous year that saw me celebrate a Steelers Super Bowl victory only to leave the first full-time job I’ve ever taken months later and arrive in the city whose team the Steelers defeated. Seattle is home to my aunt and uncle […]
This bizarre graphic pretty much sums up my reaction to tonight’s Steelers-Jaguars game on Monday Night Football. The Steelers lost 9-0 on a national ESPN telecast. (Final box score)
As of Tuesday, May 23, I no longer live in Pittsburgh. I’m typing this from a temporary apartment in Seattle’s International District within sight distance of Amazon.com’s Pac-Med building. One week from today I start work for the e-tailing giant.
I arrived in Pittsburgh for my undergraduate education in August of 1999. After […]
In less than 24 hours all my things will be packed up and I’ll say goodbye to my current home. After putting it on the sale market for a while I’ve decided to try a different tack: renting. I’m asking $1200 per month for my place (1,200 square feet, washer and dryer in […]
It’s been just under one year since I became a homeowner, and now I’m in talks with the same Realtor who sold me my home. The house is now the same as it was when I got it, with a new front door and no problems with any of the systems in it.
If you […]