When it snowed last week we went down to the park to take some pictures for our Christmas card. Some worked, most didn't, but it was mostly fun. (If we have your address) Look for a Christmas card sometime before 2011... maybe. We're (Amanda is) still working on wedding thank you cards, OK?!
Here's Grandpa Lowden followed by Grandpa Artherhults, with a special encore appearance by Grandma Artherhults! Skype + Grandparents = Awesome!
We obviously can't spend every holiday with Amanda's family in Indiana, but we always try to Skype in when we can't. I'm always entertained being passed around from person to person via computer like a newborn. Here's a clip from our Skype conversation with Amanda's Grandma Lowden (seen first) and Grandma Artherhults. I think the concept of video chat is still so new and cool. Add grandparents to the picture and it's like spiking the punch.
My commute is longer than most people's - up to 3 hours a day, round-trip. Monday was an exception for anyone caught in the icy mess on I-5 southbound. It took us 10.5 hours to get home from Seattle, and ours wasn't the longest trip.
As you can imagine, this was bad in a lot of ways, but I had my wife there to bear the hellish commute with me (being a newlywed is fun!), and we had our phones to keep in touch with the outside world. We also had a lot of time, and I spent a lot of that on Twitter (I mean, who can talk to their spouse for that amount of time!).
I tweeted a lot of random thoughts relevant to the situation and tried to keep it fun to entertain myself and Amanda. We weren't the only ones relying on Twitter, and in short time I had actually built quite an audience and my alias, @paolojr, became a trending topic in Seattle (this is a big deal in the Twitter world). I tweeted nearly 150 times while we were on the road and got a lot of attention for it, including from KING 5 News and later from The Seattle Times.
I thought I'd share some highlights that I wrote on Twitter here to memorialize that commute and give a better idea of how the night went. Enjoy. (Click 'Read More' to see the tweets.)
Looking forward to a snow-heavy La Niña winter season! This is the start of it!
