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This will be a short update. I have to go to bed at 10pm to be up by 5am.
Today was the first day of working in the Seattle office. There’s something pretty cool about working in a skyscraper in the big city. But the commute will be the death of me, and probably everyone who makes it. Holy shit, what a long day.
This picture is a squiggly mess taken on the way home, around 6:00pm. I thought the chaotic lights were a good representation of the day. It started at 4:00am. I woke, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head. Found my way downstairs and drank a cup, and looking up, I noticed I was late. Okay. Not really. Beatles lyrics aside, the day did start at 4:00am. I met Lance at 5:15, and went to pick up another co-worker before getting on Highway 20 by 5:30am. We had to turn around to pick up Lance’s glasses, since he was driving.
The drivers of Seattle are pussies! Only in Seattle will you hear the morning traffic reports refer to a “sunshine slowdown” because these jackasses drive slower because — follow me here — the sun is shining in their eyes. Hello motherfuckers! Have you ever heard of sunglasses? And sunshine isn’t the only thing that causes people to drive like their brains are leaking out their anuses. Rain, fog, snow, and even a clear day when “the mountain is out” will cause these people to slow down. Apparently, the only way the morning commute goes off without a hitch is if it’s overcast with no chance for precipitation, and the temperature is about 50°F. In Seattle, that only happens twice a year, usually over the Fourth of July weekend.
To other commuters who may have glanced into our vehicle, we must have looked like a carpool of three fat guys on their way to an audition for The Biggest Loser. But aside from that, we made it in about two hours and ten minutes. The day at work was like any other, except for re-assembling my office in the new space. In fact, here’s a new gallery of my office in the Westin.
The Internet connection is fast as hell in the Westin! I did a speed test, and was getting over 15 megabit a second downloads and 7 megabit uploads to a server in San Jose! w00t!
The drive home was faster. We left the parking garage by 5:40pm, and I was uploading the pictures in that gallery by 7:40pm. And that included a stop at the ARCO for a pack of smokes for Tina. Let’s just hope that while the commutes are long, they are as smooth as today’s.
