Eric’s Journal

Work was canceled today because of snow, most of which fell several days ago but it took my employer an extra day to close schools. Thus, I was forced to venture home yesterday through a thin layer of slush that caused major traffic backups, an ordeal that lasted 2.5 hours. Conditions got pretty scary during the final mile after exiting the freeway, where I passed at least 5 stalled cars. Needless to say, I’m very glad to be staying home today.

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I finally finished editing and uploading photos that LeAnn and I took on our trip to New York and Washington DC. We left on June 24 and stayed with Anne for several days, then went to DC until July 5. I took nearly 700 photos, but managed to narrow it down to about 150 to share publicly.

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Today I visited Snoqualmie Falls, which is currently gushing due to 30 consecutive days of rain. You know it’s a bad sign when Seattle makes the national news due to so much rain. It has been good for mountain snow but bad for flooding rivers.

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I recently received a Spudtrooper as a gift, which I’ve put on the shelf next to Darth Tater. This one doesn’t have as good of puns, but here are a few from the packaging;

• “Freeze, or I’ll mash you”
• “Equiped with a lazer masher and spud armor to save their skins, the mighty Spudtroopers have sworn allegiance to Darth Tater. Now, the Rebel Alliance must flee to keep from getting fried.”

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Here is the same alien mushroom I photographed three days ago, now in full bloom (view large photo).

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Today while I was at my mom’s house I saw these mushrooms growing outside on her lawn. I’ve never seen them grow so tall and narrow. They’re proof I need to mow the lawn. I took the photo with my camera phone, they aren’t actually glowing like that.

The alien looking shrooms reminded me of a music video I saw recently.

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I finally posted photos from my recent sailing trip in the Florida Keys. I also posted a narrative of the trip that I wrote for the Puget Sound Writing Project.

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