In 1990, I made a major career change, after being a hospital pharmacy technician for ten years. It took me some time to decide what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I decided to go into the field of industrial Purchasing, and enrolled in a community college with a 2-year degree in …
Continue reading After 30 years, parting ways with the Institute for Supply Management
On Sunday, I took a drive. On the way back, instead of driving down the freeway all the way home, I decided to take an alternate route, a road that leads to a riverside park, along the Snohomish River. We have had very heavy rains for the past few days, and I knew the river …
Since I consider 2020 to have been the worst year in my 71-year life, let's get the bad stuff out of the way first. In 2020, we underwent the worst government-imposed denial of individual liberty in living memory, when our state governments locked down entire states, preventing millions of citizens from earning their livings, and …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #129: Favorite images of 2020
A mental-health "expert" from the Washington State Department of Health, AKA here as "Health Nazi Department", tells you, in an article from MyNorthwest.com, how you should be making your 2021 resolutions and goals. Here are some pull-quotes from that bracing, encouraging article: This is the first line from the MyNorthwest article: [Italics and bolding …
Continue reading Health Nazi suggestions for your 2021 Goal-setting
In our backyard, we have two suet feeders. One has an extension on the bottom for large birds like woodpeckers to rest their tails while feeding; the other is a standard cage feeder with no extension. At both feeders, we get numerous different species, including flickers, a Bewick's wren, juncos, nuthatches, chickadees, and a Townsend's …
For New Years Eve, Hubby and I found a YouTube video of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from Kings College, Cambridge, and watched the whole thing. Each year, the College puts on this choral service, with different lessons, speakers, and carols each year. The service from 2003 was strangely relevant to the state …
...a year of record-low unemployment, and job opportunities for ex-prisoners and black and other minority workers...until it wasn't. A year of thriving small businesses, after-work drinks at our favorite Chinese restaurant, and ample overtime work due to a full order book at my aerospace job...until it wasn't. Quite quickly, 2020 turned into the Annus Horribilis. …
Continue reading When I was 71, it was a Very Bad Year. The Year of “Closed” and “Canceled”
Better known around here as the Washington State Ferry System, which connects the Puget Sound mainland cities of Seattle, Edmonds, Tacoma, and Mukilteo with the numerous islands in the Sound, and the Kitsap Peninsula, and even Canada. Thousands of island residents commute via ferry daily, either walking on or driving their cars. And every year …
The historic Seven Gables Theater in Seattle was destroyed in a three-alarm fire on Christmas Eve. It took over 100 firefighters to finally put down the flames that gutted the 95-year-old indie movie theater that was a landmark in Seattle's University District. The building had been vacant since 2017, when the owners finally gave up …
Around our house, even the "owner", Kikyo the black cat, gets her own Christmas treats. She has a box where we store her toys, so if she wants to play with one, she has to work to get it out of the box. It's pretty simple, just a flat square with holes in the top …
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