Pine Flat Road

Nice view.

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Willary Wedding

Yesterday, Jessica and I had the honor of bearing witness to the union of our dear friends, Will Rounsavell and Hillary Rielly. The wedding was beautiful and unique. Due to Seattle's unceasing September-to-June rains, they held it indoors at a really interesting venue - a fancy, classic car broker, Cosmopolitan Motors. The ceremony included their family and close friends. The crafty couple made their own terrarium centerpieces which were each a puzzle guests had to solve to learn to which table they were assigned. A pig was roasted for the special day and a friend of the groom brewed five kegs of beer for the event. The party favor was a custom "Willary Wedding" beer coozie, quite appropriate in light of the groom own substantial coozie collection.

I met Will five years ago in Seattle when I bravely moved into a shared house from a craigslist posting. I made some life long friends there. I am proud to know this guy and very happy to see him married to a truly wonderful woman.

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Thanksgiving

I had Thanksgiving with Jessica's families up in Seattle again this year. Here are the pics from her Mom's dinner. I had a great time with her Dad and their family & friends but no pics cause I forgot the camera. I did however, instigate a good game of Settlers of Catan that we unfortunately could not finish. Both meals were delicious and extremely filling (esp. the turkey that Nathan & Steven brined). Great start to the Nov-Jan holiday period!

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SF Halloween 2011

Here's another flagrantly late photo bomb: my pics from Halloween this year.

We went out to house parties both nights in a row. Dayday was in town which is always fun. Neither him nor Ben had costumes so Jessica and I furnished some for them. I think they turned out well. Quite fun. Big ups to Jon and to Nick for their party hookups. I don't think I am in any of the pictures but I was dressed as Charlie Sheen.

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Must be some kind of Bingo

... Seattle weather style.

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US Health Care Ripoff!

Healthcarefail

Would you like to spend an extra $2k on health care per year and live 4 years LESS!  Well now you can!  Thanks to the always wonderfully inefficient And ineffective US Health Care system.  You didn't need that pesky *life* anyway.  The last four years are always the worst! Your grandkids graduations and weddings are so freaking boring you definitely are better off dead.

Are you kidding me?!  We are spending > $2,000 more per year on health care AND living 4 years less than even our extreme wealth (GDP per capita) implies.  Without spending anymore than our level of "richness" would have us spend, we should be living 4 years longer.  

Loving those HMOs/PPOs/Pharmaceutical Giants/Medicare Parasites/Etc. right now that furiously lobby against any and all policy proposals that could even fart near their bottom lines.

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