redwissel.com

my sunroof saved my life.

as usual, i was going across the 520 bridge to get to work, when out of the clear blue my civic and i were attacked. and my sunroof took the hit and saved ultimately the life of myself and the civic. to set the stage, every morning traffic is inching towards the bridge and then once on the bridge going across lake washington traffic picks up to an average of 45-50 miles per hour. as usual inching and then as i picked up the black porsche boxster behind me decided he was going to try to get ahead by squeezing in between and me and the cars in the other lane in order to go around me and enter the other lane. as he did so, he floored it and sped past me as fast as he could. a few seconds later, i hear a bang and next thing i know i am pelted in the head with a rock. luckily i had my sunglasses on, so the rock hit the bone right above my eye and the glasses instead of ending up hitting my actual eye. then i was like ouch! that hurts like hell, but luckily, i maintained control of the car and stayed straight and in my lane. i continued onto to work with a bit of a headache and funny thing is, after all the porsche’s efforts to get ahead, he ended up behind me to get on the 405. he made no headway, just gave all the other surrounding drivers stress for nothing.

time passes. i put in a full days work. and as i head home, i keep hearing this loud wind-like sound. and i swear my sunroof is not completely closed. i open it and close it about fifteen times. still the wind-like noise. after i get home. i’m like crap my sunroof’s broken. how much is this gonna cost me. so after i get home. i climb a top the civic to find a hella-huge rock wedged in the sunroof track. luckily for me, the sunroof took the brunt of the damage. i was only hit by a small piece of shrapnel from the huge rock. the sunroof took the big hit. if i had been hit in the head with the quarter size rock, lord knows what could have happened in bumper to bumper traffic.

never thought i’d say this, but my sunroof saved my life.

i finally got around to posting my butterfly series from the afternoon i spent at the seattle zoo in july. click here or on the photo to view the set on flickr.

my bengals won their first game. woot woo. that makes one happy redhead. overall, thought they played okay. there’s definitely still room for improvement. very excited and hopeful about how fitzpatrick and perry played. watson played well, too. but most of all, happy to see all the potential of utecht, a great addition to the team. woot. 1-0. let’s keep it going. go bengals!

once again, b and i decided to go exploring in the city. first we walked a very long way to pier 90 to hang with the sailors and get free tours of all the ships. you can see some of b’s pics here.

also we dined at one of our fav sushi places in belltown, wasabi bistro. pretty good sushi at good prices. happy hour prices are fabulous.

most weekends, we have no schedule - no set routine. we go with the flow and let the day form itself. but one thing or two may be for sure. 70% of the time, we will go somewhere to hook b up with some coffee and myself with something a tad more girlie like a mocha or a chai. and 90% of the time we will end up record shopping. seattle is the best city for vinyl. we’ve hit a gold mine. what do we purchase you may ask? well b buys vinyl from the 60’s and 70’s - funk and soul, black panthers of oakland stuff, nina simone, early 70’s west african funk, and some other really ol’school stuff. i on the other hand old jazz and big band like the mills brothers, glen miller, men at work, anything eighties and some original aretha. well here are a few pics from our adventures over the past few weeks. hope you enjoy.

b hopping for tunage

b buying records

b happy about his record purchase

some of b’s pics:

vinyl

hidden treasure

they really brightened my day. miss you. ; )

To view more on my flickr page, click here.

actually we really did. first we went to the airport on saturday to pick up peet. the best cat ever. our home feels complete now that b’s cat has safely made it to seattle. as soon as the sedative wron off, peet was back to being his normal self. eating. exploring. following us around like he’s our shadow. he absolutely luvs all the windows and views he has here. plus, i think he enjoys all the action. our neighborhood is quite a bit more active then b’s old apartment complex.
then today we picked up b’s friend chuck from the airport. we had lunch at red robin, apparently a lot of the restaurants in our neighborhood do not open until dinnertime on sundays in our neighborhood. but it was nice. we were able to sit outside. the strawberry lemonade is delicious. the boys spent the rest of the afternoon making beats and talking music. peet and i are spending the afternoon working on an email layout. it’s great to have my office mate back.

Today we drove about 13 hours to get to Park City Utah. We drove on I-80 completely throught the entire states of nebraska and wyoming. and let me tell ya, they are big states. i have to admit nebreska was ultra boring and wyoming offered lots of photo opps. anyhow, after the long day in the car and grabbing some quick food from ruby tuesdays. i have just enough energy to import the images from today to make room to take pics tomorrow. i used approximately 7gb of images in raw which equals about 350 shots in photo cards, so it will take me a minute to select and save out the good shots. i also need to rest up for tomorrow.
we ate breakfast in the hampton inn, ate lunch ate arby’s and had dinner tonight at the ruby tuesday’s next to the wonderful hampton inn we are staying at tonight. nebraska is full of fields, cows and some horses and donkeys. lots of farm houses. no real big towns at all. after awhile it all looks the same and gets old. wyoming. it seems like no one lives there. maybe about 2000 people. a tad bit of cows and farming. lots of very interesting rock terrain and mountains, and some cool energy windmills. our fist attempt at a hotel tonight dropped us off in a shady little town, which b and i thought that if it was the 1800’s, it would be the very shady wild western town that you heard about. needless to say we quickly decided to drive another hour even though we are tired to a nicer spot and once again b’s preferred hampton inn. so far it was definitely worth it. ruby tuesday’s next to us to eat. and no shady lounge, no liquor store and no adult stores are even close to the hotels in park city, let alone sharing the parking lot. will try to post pics soon. night.
hope all is well in the nasty nati.