Hey Kids!
I know it's been quite some time since my last posting. I'm sure whatever readers I had are long gone, having given up hope of seeing a new post from me any time soon. But, haha, here I am!
My summer internship with the Washington State Democrats continues. We moved the offices from First Avenue (Pioneer Square in Seattle) to Second Avenue (still Pioneer Square) last week, and then everyone took a four day weekend. So, the deployment of the new server and wireless network has just now begun in earnest. I was in the office until 11:00PM last night, and will probably be there late tonight again. I have every confidence that I will be able to get that server up and running by the end of the weekend, and then I'm thinking about taking a few more days off! But that all depends on my being able to get this thing going.
Over the four day weekend, Jessica and I went camping with some friends at Ross Lake and had a wonderful time. We met some people from Israel out there and spent a morning talking with them about the situation in the Middle East. I asked them if the news reports we're getting over here are accurate, and they said it depends on which network one is watching. It sounds like, according to them, CNN is doing a pretty fair job of reporting, while FOX News focuses on the death and destruction. They said it's scary over there, but they didn't seem too worried about things themselves. In fact, I was surprised at the way they talked about what is happening over there. It was a certain nonchallance (sp?), like it was just another inconvenience one had to deal with. I suppose if one has grown up all one's life with that threat of violence hanging over one's head constantly that one does kind of just get used to it. Any way, they said they were from Tel Aviv and they didn't think any bombs would be falling on their heads when they got back home from vacation.
Well, that's all I've got for now. I'll try to write more soon.
I know it's been quite some time since my last posting. I'm sure whatever readers I had are long gone, having given up hope of seeing a new post from me any time soon. But, haha, here I am!
My summer internship with the Washington State Democrats continues. We moved the offices from First Avenue (Pioneer Square in Seattle) to Second Avenue (still Pioneer Square) last week, and then everyone took a four day weekend. So, the deployment of the new server and wireless network has just now begun in earnest. I was in the office until 11:00PM last night, and will probably be there late tonight again. I have every confidence that I will be able to get that server up and running by the end of the weekend, and then I'm thinking about taking a few more days off! But that all depends on my being able to get this thing going.
Over the four day weekend, Jessica and I went camping with some friends at Ross Lake and had a wonderful time. We met some people from Israel out there and spent a morning talking with them about the situation in the Middle East. I asked them if the news reports we're getting over here are accurate, and they said it depends on which network one is watching. It sounds like, according to them, CNN is doing a pretty fair job of reporting, while FOX News focuses on the death and destruction. They said it's scary over there, but they didn't seem too worried about things themselves. In fact, I was surprised at the way they talked about what is happening over there. It was a certain nonchallance (sp?), like it was just another inconvenience one had to deal with. I suppose if one has grown up all one's life with that threat of violence hanging over one's head constantly that one does kind of just get used to it. Any way, they said they were from Tel Aviv and they didn't think any bombs would be falling on their heads when they got back home from vacation.
Well, that's all I've got for now. I'll try to write more soon.
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