First I’m driving home, then getting in Ming’s car and we’re driving to Abottsford, British Columbia. From there we’re flying to Calgary, Alberta where we’ll catch a shuttle to Banff so that we can spend five days skiing at Sunshine. Good times!
Seattle Times, Police kill armed man in shooting on Capitol Hill:
Seattle police fatally shot a man near a busy intersection on Capitol Hill on Tuesday night after, they said, he pointed a gun at them.
Crazy.
Redfin, may favorite Seattle real estate tool, added stats today. Here are the stats for Capitol Hill.
Average cost per square foot is $406.
Do any Waterloo locals have information on Auburn Development’s $140 million BarrelYards project going on the Canbar lands? All I can find is this Waterloo Chronicle article about it.
250 luxury rental and condominium apartments into a seven-building layout on the 12.7-acre site. In addition to the seven to 17-storey condo and apartment buildings revealed at a press conference at the CIGI last Wednesday, there will also be a 120- to 150-room all-suites hotel on the site, and an upscale office building with 15,000 square feet of space.
Is anything else going on in Uptown? What’s happening with Waterloo Town Square? Is it still a ghetto? Any changes taking place on Erb Street?
I still own property on Erb and am wondering what to do with it :).
I biked to work for the first time today. The ride is about 10 miles and you have to hop on the bus for part of it to get across Lake Washington (I can’t believe they didn’t build a sidewalk on the bridge).
After stopping by the local bike shop to make sure my bike was fitting me correctly I ripped around the neighborhood. And I couldn’t believe how much fun it was. I seriously regret not trying this sport out sooner! It really is a blast, especially here in Seattle with all the ups and downs.
Friday night I bought a used 56″ Specialized Allez Elite Triple (model year unknown) via Craigslist. It’s got an aluminum frame, carbon fork & seatpost and Shimano 105 components. I’m looking forward to ripping around Seattle on it this summer!
Now I just need to pick up some SPD pedals for it and I’m set (I’m baffled that there are two SPD systems, one for mountain bikes and one for road bikes. So in the interest of minimizing the number of shoes I have I’m just going to go with SPD for both my bikes, instead of SPD for my MTB and SPD-SL for my roadbike).
Perhaps I left calling too late, but by the time I called my moorage place on Portage Bay on Lake Union last weekend all they had left were three 40′ slips costing around $1600/summer. This sent me off the deep end, but I fortunately then found a covered slip on Portage Bay for $1200/summer that was more my size. But even better was the email I got from a friend and co-worker who is moving to an apartment on Lake Washington which happens to have slips available. Today we struck a deal to store my boat there for the summer. I’m a little worried about the rougher water and the long commute to get to the on-the-water restaurants, but it’s ideal for wakeboarding. Needless to say I can’t wait to drop it in after I get back from skiing the first week in May!
In between the main hockey season and summer season a bunch of us from Red Army have signed up for hockey camp (it’s run by the Seattle T-Bird’s assistant coach). It’s 1.25 hours twice a week for five weeks. Sadly, we’re all pretty bad at the basics. We never really realized it until they took away all the distractions and it was just two guys going down the ice trying to get a couple of passes on the tape. Unfortunately I don’t think 1.25 hours twice a week is enough. I think we need something more instense like 2 hours three times a week.
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