November 2003 (part 1), as seen from my phone...

Mon. 10

More funny license plates - Greg should like this one (or not, since he will not be able to get it... in CA anyways - does it matter between states? I don't think so... ;-)

Fri. 21

iPodLinux! - I finally managed to bring up development natively on Mac OS X - including building an arm-elf gcc cross-compiler and compiling Linux on Mac OS X! It boots!

Sat. 22

Peter & Carolyn's Living in Sin party cake

Tue. 25

Week off! Start of trip to PDX (Portland, Oregon, USA) & SEA (Seattle, Washington) w/ Paul. The second we crossed into OR from CA, we started getting snowed upon!

Wed. 26

PDX - gate at entrance of China town.

PDX - Paul in front of some elephant -ish statue by Powell's Technical Bookstore - Powells is a small chain of ridiculously large book stores - their main store is a "city of books"!

PDX - Entrance to Japanese Gardens

PDX - Japanese Gardens - small tower

PDX - Japanese Gardens - stream (the rain was not something that particularly excited me on the trip, but it made for great scenery here!)

PDX - Japanese Gardens - hills & trees in fall colors

PDX - Japanese Gardens - nifty little water collection / well type thing

PDX - Japanese Gardens - pond / lake w/ a walkable wood path

PDX - Japanese Gardens - waterfall

PDX - Japanese Gardens - pond / lake #2

PDX - Japanese Gardens - pond / lake w/ a walkable stone path - me walking over it in my sandals (it was COLD out too, but the place was just friggin lovely, very zen... ;-)

PDX - Japanese Gardens - sand garden (again, more zen - this sand garden actually plants instead of rocks [they had a sand/rock garden too] - the two figures are supposed to be a bottle of sake and a small bowl ;-)

PDX - Japanese Gardens - it is up on a hill, which has a nice view of the city

PDX - Sports museum... me doing pull ups *grin*

PDX - at nite we saw a jazz band - Jimmy Bennington - Midnight Choir - in the Blue Monk bar/club (picture is kinda dark, but hey - it goes w/ the theme;-)

Thu. 27

PDX - last stop on some hill as we leave PDX for SEA - nice view west of PDX

PDX - last stop on some hill as we leave PDX for SEA - another nice view west of PDX

On way from OR to WA - one of the visitor centers - closed for winter

More snow

Big bridge

Random downtown SEA, trees w/ festive christmas lights

Random downtown SEA #2

Fri. 28

SEA - Seattle City Center - Experience Music Project (EMP) building architecture

SEA - Seattle City Center - near the EMP - random art - lots of thin pieces of some material (wood, metal, plastic? not sure) that bend in the wind / if you push them... fun & trippy!

SEA - After EMP, we went for dinner - I stopped @ the Islander Tiki bar cuz of the name, and after a few many drinks, I wanted to take a picture of this great drink... I do not really remember why though... ;-)

SEA - Drink menu @ the Islander - I do recall wanting to remember how to make said drink (and the others, they all had neat names... too bad it's a bit blurry;-)...

Sat. 29

On way back home in OR - Right turn permitted without stopping sign! Kinda defeats the purpose of the stop sign...