Hal O'Brien

From Weather Underground's 98030 listing:

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East Hill, Kent, WA
104.4 °F 64 °F 27%

East Hill, Kent, WA
104.0 °F 49 °F 16%

Kent East Hill, Kent, WA
100.0 °F 56 °F 25%

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That would be temperature; dew point; humidity. Each reading is a different reporting station in the neighborhood.

Here's the ten-day weather forecast for 98121 (downtown Seattle) from Weather.com.

Note Monday.

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Forecast for Seattle, WA (98121)

10-Day Forecast NEW: Larger Radar Maps & No Ads   High / Low (°F) Precip. % Tonight Jul 22 Mostly Clear 60° 10 % Thu  Jul 23 Partly Cloudy 81°/60° 10 % Fri  Jul 24 Sunny 83°/64° 10 % Sat  Jul 25 Sunny 89°/68° 0 % Sun  Jul 26 Sunny 93°/67° 0 % Mon  Jul 27 Sunny 96°/67° 0 % Tue  Jul 28 Sunny 90°/65° 0 % Wed  Jul 29 Sunny 85°/65° 0 % Thu  Jul 30 Mostly Sunny 84°/64° 10 % Fri  Jul 31 Few Showers 81°/60° 30 % Last Updated Jul 22 02:09 p.m. PT

This was taken from the terrace outside the con suite on Thursday the 13th, which was much sunnier than later. I'd recommend going to the "all sizes" page on Flickr, and then downloading the original size to see the most detail. It's a 7.5MB file, but there you go. I'm not sure why, but Flickr isn't showing the original, but I've verified it can be downloaded.

Bellevue and the Cascades are on the left. Only the outline of the peak of Mt. Rainier is visible in the haze, about 1/4 of the way through the image, working from the left. The tall tower across the street was originally built for Safeco Insurance, but is now offices for the U of Washington. (If you look closely in one of the windows, you can see a reflection of me.) The north end of downtown can be seen just to the right edge of the UW tower, along with the Space Needle. All the way on the right the Olympic Mountains are visible.

This is in the basement of the Hotel Deca, the venue for the upcoming Corflu Zed, for those who haven't been there.

...and startlingly blue sky.

The light yesterday was remarkably bright, crisp, and crunchy. This is my favorite of the 200 or so pics I took while my car was in the shop. (Others to come.)

1916, Warren Augustus Gould; Smith Tower 1914, Gaggin & Gaggin

A set of icons -- "Typewriter Eraser, Scale X" by Claes Oldenburg, "Eagle" by Alexander Calder (both at the Olympic Sculpture Park), the cruise ship Celebrity Infinity, and Mt. Rainier.

The sun is fairly bright this morning.

Built in 1910 as part of the Metropolitan Tract. Here's a page on the building. More recently, it's been turned into apartments.

I was taking the bus from Pioneer Square back to my car mechanic's on Beacon Hill.

The shot was taken very quickly. I liked the play of light on her skin, but also the sense of dignity within sad contemplation.

So.

I recently started reading Wittgenstein's Poker, by David Edmonds and John Eidinow.

And I was flipping through the new Seattle Weekly yesterday... When I saw that Mr. Edmonds is making an appearance at the UW... today.

This is Seattle, damnit. We take reading seriously. The author of the book you're reading will be along any moment now... :)