I’ve travelled 70% of the way to the moon!

Or at least that’s what this cool new website, flightmemory.com, says.

This is a website where you enter all the details of your travels and it then spits-out maps and statistics for you. I totally got into this just being lazy today. Spent hours putting in my flights and travels, all from memory.

Then you start to remember trips you forgot! Like I vividly remember flying on Delta Airlines through Cincinnati once, and Northwest via Detroit — but I can’t remember what for!

*Highly* entertaining for an aviation/travel nerd such as myself.

View my Flight memory maps and stats here!

Highlights (And I’m far from complete!):

In Miles 167,658
In Kilometer 269,821
Earth Circumnavigation 6.73 x
Distance to the Moon 0.702 x
Distance to the Sun 0.0018 x
Total Airports 53
Total Airlines 16
Total Aircraft type 28
Total Routes 106

Total Countries 8

Oh yeaahhh…travel planning time!

I’m off as a traveller again!

Super excited — I just planned two cool trips. A short trip in December to the Bay Area to see some friends I haven’t seen in ages and then a fantastic trip to Paris in March — my favorite travel month.

I planned the trip to Paris first and then thought — crap, that’s 6 months away! I need a vacation to ease all that waiting…so I planned another.

Hopefully my friend Claire, who’s going back to school on the East coast, will be able to join me as it’s her spring break.

Pssst…I’m flying first class to Paris…yes, hate me…Bahahahaha!

I have iritis!

“Iritis is a form of anterior uveitis and refers to the inflammation of the iris of the eye.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iritis

Who knew! It kind of sucks as I can’t go outside much, and after this entry I am done with computer screens for the night and have to limit my exposure for a few days — so totally weird. And they don’t know what causes it in many cases.

Hmmmpgf!

Happy 7-7-7!!

Today is 07/07/07 — fun!

Got to see all the Boeing airplanes fly into BFI today — saw it from my roof as they approached. The 707, 717, 727, 737, 747, 757, 767 and 777! Whew! I’m such an airplane freak. I almost peed my pants.

I must admit I’m getting very excited for the 787 rollout tomorrow. I won’t be up in Everett as it’s invite only and the best view will probably be on my HD TV. However, come first flight in Aug/Sep — you bet I’ll be there!!

Edit: Here’s a great set of photos from the PI:

Boeing parade of 7-series planes

Vote for Lauren Briel!

My good friend Lauren is running for Seattle city council!

Lauren Briel is a focused, independent new voice in Seattle politics running to restore accountability and rekindle the spark of decisive leadership in our City Council. Our city is a beautiful, diverse community, and it demands an inclusive political process involving not just the policy makers but key stakeholders and the community at large.

http://www.votelaurenbriel.com/

This summer just got a whole lot more interesting! 🙂

Start saving bail for me now…

Just reserved tix to reunite with my best co-conspirator, Natalie, in Phoenix. So start saving for my bail money fund now ! We’re planning on taking a road trip through Arizona

A terabyte at gigabit speeds

OK, everyone and Heaven knows I’m a total dweeb. So I just got moved into my new condo (and all unpacked to boot!) and reviewed costs, finances…basically saw where the hell I was financially. Outlook was good, so I indulged and upgraded the home network. Bought a gigabit switch (nothing too terribly hip these days, but very nice) and also bought some new hard drives for my home server. I now have over a terabyte of storage, which is a moderately cool thing! I transferred a bunch of stuff from my PC to the server and…shaZAM! Wow. It copied to the server in like 5 minutes — about 200 gigs of stuff.

Me likey!

Oh, also bought some clothes for spring/summer. There are some articles of clothing I needed to retire. So I’m not a total technology hermit.

Toronto Photos

So I’m home, and I’m slowly going through photos and writing a trip report. Most of the photos for Toronto are from the CN tower as it was a gorgeous day and any other photos look like any other city. I guess that is the noted curse of Toronto if the city has one — it can stand-in for any big city. And it often does in film. But what “general” city-ness it may have it makes-up for in general appeal. Toronto is a really nice city!

Anyways, more writings later, but Here’s the gallery