My Belated Welcome to Seattle (aka: I need more than 24 hours in a day)

Hello, dear reader... or readers, but its probably reader.

I apologize for my lack of updates.  I want to keep this thing going, so I am gonna make this new installment a simple pictorial (no Kilzer, not THAT kind of pictorial) look at my new life in this beautiful city.

So, here goes:

This is my apartment building.

The bottom level is market area.  The first floor is actually three floors off the street level.

When I step out onto the street and look to my right, this is my view.

I am right at the cross roads of Seattle Center, the Space Needle, Queen Anne, and Elliott Bay.  Its very Frasier Crane like and all.

This is my view down on Elliott Bay and Puget Sound.  Its awesome.

I get to watch cargo ships, ferries, cruise ships, and pleasure craft from my very own little balcony.  Its nice!

One non-picture related story:
I got a Wii for Christmas last year.  I decided to play it tonight.  Threw in Madden '10, started flailing my arms wildly, really having a good time, when I happened to look out my patio windows and saw to my delight....... a homeless man relieving himself.  Not in a port-a-potty, not even behind a potted plant.  Nope, he had pulled his warmup pants down to the knees, was facing the busy traffic-filled street, and was adding his liquids to the sidewalks of Belltown.  Two people walked past him.  One just shook his head.  I couldn't resist, so I let out a holler that rattled the glass.  Mitterating man, startled perhaps, lost his aim and commenced to begin peeing into his drooping warm up pants.  I didn't feel bad.  He shouldn't have been peeing there.  Not where I could see him.  Anyway, he finished his business, pulled his now quite wet pants up and started stumbling on down the road.  I wish I had taken a picture for my pictorial edition of the blog.  But that would have been in bad taste, I'm sure.
I won my Madden '10 game 98-0.  I assume I am really good.  But I might need to turn the difficulty up past "Third Grade" level.

Just down the hill from my house, wide open views of the Olympics and the Sound.

You really can't beat the views I have.  And all within a very short walk (with a nice cup of coffee, of course) from my house.

Perhaps the most under rated part of Seattle.

There's a saying, or is it a show?? Its a show, but I'm calling it a saying... Its Always Sunny in... Seattle.  Not a drop of rain, sun every day.  Its been like Hilo, only exactly the opposite.

When I am feeling lazy, I just look straight ahead.

You may recall from a few pictures ago, I can see the Space Needle behind my building.  But that requires I take the elevator down to the street and use the muscles in my neck to look right.  Instead, I can stare at the water and just enjoy this perfect reflection in the windows across the street!  Thank you, Seattle, for helping me be lazy!!

This is just to help certain readers to see that I really DID take the beauty shots from my previous post.

You cant click a camera and NOT hit a beautiful picture here.  I love my cat too much to use the old saying about swinging a dead one, so lets move on!  Just up the street from me, up the hill, and it is QUITE the hill, images of downtown Seattle abound.  This is just one of em.

Anyway, I hope that this will keep my readers involved and I will TRY to be better about making my updates semi-daily.  That means, at least once a week and maybe once every season.  But I will try. 

I will get into my work situation soon, but as anyone who knows me is aware, its quite the story right now!