Here's the deal. Almost three weeks into this new adventure I'm beginning to see that we as people, have no reason to stay penned up as we are, if we're unhappy or just feel the need to change. That'll hopefully explain itself somewhere in my blog.
Last week I saw with my own eyes, snow caped mountains. I really cannot explain how beautiful they were, but what's remarkable is that I was driving down that same road everyday for 1 week and and I didn't see the mountains right in front my face. Then one day it was clear enough, and I saw that we were surrounded by them. It can be sunny in the city and you still won't be able to see them. The moisture from the Puget Sound rises quickly and masks them from sight.
But on that day, the big daddy of them all, Mount Rainier showed its face






It was an extremely impressive sight. We took this from the park on the north side of the Boeing Field. We only stood there for 10 minutes in awe. Mount Rainier by the Indians is called mother earth. They believed that she watched over them and followed them. According to the locals the mountain looks closer or further away depending on atmospheric conditions in different areas, which may be why the Indians thought the mountain was following them. As sweet as the story is, and as beautiful as this natural wonder is, I'll be living 150 miles north of this volcano, so no matter what mother nature decides to do, it won't include me.

One night while we were settled at home, we decided to check out the best view in Seattle, what else but Seattle itself. So I searched on the internet for the best views of the city. We found a place called Kelly Park which promised to offer us a classic view of the city, especially at night. I plugged it into my trusty GPS and it was only 1.6 miles away!!! What? Two blocks away from me is the Puget Sound, which means I'm almost at sea level, and 1.6 miles away is the best view in Seattle? Well they weren't lying and again we were awestruck by the view.








Nice huh, and the people up here, we're told don't lock their doors, because its a mean hill to get up here as you can imagine.

One interesting and cool thing about Seattle is that the buses run partly off the powergrid. One day I'll post a photo but their are two large moving polls that connect to the powergrid and turn and twist as the bus moves. Now only local buses have this capability, the interstate buses do not.

I've been harping about a few things in the city but I should mention a few things about Boeing. Honestly almost anything I can say about my job in particular is proprietory. I'm probably going to have to give the tourist version later on with lots of photos. So far I'm spending a lot of time in meetings and working on Catia. Catia for those who don't know is a 3D modelling program for engineers. I've got a lot of classes next week, which I look forward to, and a composite course at the University of Washington next semester. Its basically the same as most jobs where I'm assigned a mentor and I have to work out my own learning plan despite their best intentions.

On a side note, yesterday I finally invested in two companies that I have been following for some time, Alibaba.com, the largest asian business to business website, cost me $1.75 per share, and Activision at $26.60 per share, the soon to be leader in pc and console video games. We'll see wht the market has in store for us, these are long term stocks for me.

Well Everyone take care, thanks for reading, and I'll be keeping in touch.

Week One

Hi everyone, I'm trying to stay in touch. I suppose I want everyone who is interested to know what's going on, as well as see what's going on over here in Seattle with me and Priscilla. I'll try to post at least once a week and since this is my first try at this give me some time to get better!!!

Six and a half hours of flying in a 737. That's 6 seats across, single isle narrow body airplane, with no movies. Priscilla kept me sane for the most part. It was rough though, and I couldn't sleep because I can't sleep sitting straight up, except on the way from work. When we got to Seattle it was 9:30pm and cold and dark. SeaTac was really plain, sort of like an unfinished urban type setting, with everything made and placed primarily for efficiency. For instance the rental car stations are in the same room and right behind the baggage claim with the bus stop, rental car pickups and private passenger pickups right outside that door. Not a scenic way to enter the city and it certainly didn't make a good impression.

It took us an hour to get out of the airport and I finally got to bed at 1 in the morning. I can't take the credit for it though, the GPS we got as a present from my father had a lot to do with being able to even get there, and I was able to get 4 hours of sleep before orientation in the morning.
So orientaion at Boeing began at 7:30, and I got there early because it was essential for my peace of mind. Moving with your family across the country, starting a new job made me extremely paranoid, and I'm not lying when I say a bit anal. I mean just because one screw up would just have put me over the edge. You know with the stress and all.

Orientation day was so long because I was still on Florida time, it was 3 hours of time added on to my day plus document after document after document of Boeing requirements etc. But one thing...they were organised. I had a Boeing badge the day before I started officially working there. What's more suprising is that it worked. Three days into work, I had my higher level security pass, specific to my job. My email was working, my computer was ready and I had a mentor and new employee checklist. WOWOWOW.

Anyway I'm working on the possibility of a new commercial aircraft composite wing. Exciting and challenging and full of skills ready to be acquired, because God knows, I'm lost LOL. There.'s so much information and so much to learn. Its great.

On the rougher side of things, I know that things can get pretty bad here in Seattle in terms of the weather, but one beautiful day in Seattle is worth 10 elsewhere. I am not kidding, and 4 out of the last 7 days have been exceptional. I'll just post pictures, but I'll talk about the disappointing Pikes place market and the exceptional restuarants in Seattle in a later post.

Hi to everyone who takes the time to read, thank you for reading! Please stay in touch