Largely lost in the shuffle of news reports was the week s impact on people who actually live and work in Seattle. Downtown Seattle s legendary bad traffic was even worse than usual. 50 square blocks ended up under curfew restrictions and street closures. Over the course of two nights we watched live TV news reports showing the conflict progressing up the hill to within nine blocks of our home. People still like to live here, and move here in droves.
Rain is an unbearable tyranny.
We are going to my favorite beach, one that has shark s teeth, manta rays and dolphins time to start my tanning. Dyer, Postcards from the Sabbatical Boy, March 16 email. In January John decided to leave Microsoft. After six years, an increasingly gridlocked daily commute, and a growing sense that the company was becoming too big and bureaucratic, he started looking for something new to do. After an internal search that turned up nothing interesting, he resigned at the end of February.