Ok! Looks like the blog is in business! Ok, back to life.

Stayed up way too late playing No One Lives Forever last night. The world gets a bit surreal at about 5 am. I'm stuck at what appears to be the first jumping puzzle of the game, which isn't bad considering I'm multiple hours into it. It's a bit frustrating because messing up = death and death = 20 second reload sequence and the timing is very tricky. Great game, though.

Did I say life? Better back up a bit.

For those who may be visiting to get caught up on where I am, I'm in the process of wrapping up an assignment in Seattle. Hard to believe it's been nine months already. While the first month Seattle lived up (down?) to my weather expectations (endless rain), it's been very pleasant since then. It's now turned cold for the winter, but to everyone's surprise the rains haven't really kicked in yet.

Seattle's a strange city. Actually, I like the city proper quite a lot, from the few times I've seen it. It has interesting topography, a beautiful harbour, some wonderful restaurants, a very well funded arts community, a pleasant sky line, and a great market perched on top of a cliff. Unfortunately the traffic to get into the city is brutal, and I live and work in Bellevue, a wealthy but deadly dull suburb to the east across Lake Washington. Since I've only spent a couple of weekends in the area in the last nine months (weekly commutes home to Toronto for the weekend) I haven't been downtown as much as I'd like.

My work in Seattle/Bellevue won't finish completely until March (at the earliest), but as of the end of this coming week I'll be part time on the project, with only one team member left full time on site. It remains to be determined what I will do with the rest of my time, but I'm hoping for something in the Toronto area as I've been travelling a lot recently, and have basically been on the road for a year and a half.
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