6 Hours to go...

2007 will be here soon. A year in which life for us in the northwest hinges. The past few months have been stressful to say the least. As it has been put, I am in the wrong town for my particular choise of career. (I have been offered jobs in New York and L.A.) The notion of crossing over to a software based, new media business has proven to be near impossible. However, the job I am (www.alphacine.com) has the potential to offer an incredible career for me. The problem has been weathering the storm of sales famine! As the saying goes in sales, feast or famine. I'm feeling confident about the next year however. I'll be busy travelling starting with Sundance in a few weeks. Alpha Cine has an incredible reputation. There is every reason why it should all come together. I could not imagine having to leave Seattle. We all love it here so much.

Happy New Year to whom ever reads this!

Wicked Winter Weather



So, the schools were closed again today - the last day of school before the break. A huge storm blew through sparing our neighborhood but hitting every other part of the county hard. Aislinn jumped for joy as we heard the news from another parent outside the school this morning. Schools are run by districts, so although our areas wasn't hit too bad, other schools near-by took the full brunt of the storm. Now the temperatures are dropping the questions remains, will we get a white Christmas?

Bits of my letter to CNN about Glenn Beck (this idiot)


In early August Glenn mentioned something about Muslims and a plot to unleash an attack at the height or Ramadan in late August. I watched in amazement as this self confessed conservative who admits "I am not a journalist", was allowed to speculate on prime time television. The weeks went by and nothing happened. However if I were to have paid attention to Mr. Beck, I would have been living in fear that entire month. He convinced himself that something was going to happen and I'll be honest with you, he had me ever so slightly concerned. But nothing did happen. This is when my opinion began to solidify.

Glenn Beck constantly attacks Muslims. His recent 1 hour special was a practical rallying call to the Christian religious right in this country. Where is the integrity in this? Where have CNN's standards gone?

Glenn likes to consider himself, an average American. Glenn does not speak for the average American. His conservative views are opinionated, radical and completely un-professional. He belongs on talk-radio at best where he can rant and preach his prophetic rambles in the hope that some day some thing he predicts might come true - just so he can say "I told you so!".

Please take him off your network and restore what little integrity CNN still has.

What better way to re-start this blog with this amazing shot of Seattle taken this morning with the Olympic Mountains in the background.

Work has stagnated and it's been really tough getting anything into the lab. It's that quiet time of year and hopefully things will pick up now after the Sundance film announcements.

We've already had a week of snow and ice with the girls off school and it's not officially winter yet.

With the early winter storms I kick started snowboarding early with a trip to the heavenly mecca of Mt. Baker. An amazing day was had to say the least.

We're all looking forward to Christmas or the 'holidays' as they like to say here. I could really do with a break. Since I started working here in Seattle over a year ago, I haven't take any vacation time, apart from the odd day here and there.