11/5/02-rb
workin' n stuff...
1/6/02-rb Happy New
Year! We partied at my house... had fun, got drunk, oh
yeah and I left my job for bigger and better things. Check
it! 
The site isn't completed yet but it'll give you an idea of what
I've been up to.
11/4/01-rb I thought this was really cool...
10/15/01
-rb Through the month of
September 2001 I attended an art school called Anderson Ranch. It was strange to
be so far away from home through that tough time
in our country's history. I talked to
several friends back here in Seattle while I was
away. They all said I was better off in
Aspen Colorado than any place else. Still,
I felt kind of sick sitting in such a beautiful
place when there were so many physically and
mentally hurting people. We managed to get
things under way at the ranch for the second and
third weeks of the class, I ended up really
having a wonderful experience, one that I would
love to do again. My instructors Sam and
Brad were such a great influence on me, both of
them I will never forget. Check out some of
the pictures here
6/15/01 -rb
ACK!
It's been way too long since I last posted on
this thing. I've been really busy working
on getting my business together. If you
hadn't heard I'm opening my own business at the
end of this year called Urban Steelworks. I'm building a page
for it right now and trying to figure out where
I'm going to locate. There are a ton more
details but that's all I can say for right now,
I'll keep you posted as I get closer to the grand
opening.
3/25/01
-rb
Greetings, I fixed
the incorrect picture location on the home page
so you can navigate around the site from there.
Not that there's much to navigate through, still,
I liked the button bar I made and I wanted to use
it for something. =)
I've been doing
some landscaping on the retaining wall in my
front yard. I'm adding some steps and a
walk way to the front door. It looks like
hell now and my neighbors think I'm crazy but
when it's done the yard will look a lot
better. You can check out some of the
pictures here.
3/24/01
-rb
If you are actually
reading this post you figured out how to access
the page. Umm da... I'm having a problem
uploading from work so I can't fix the image
problem on the greeting page.
Mir and it's fiery
de-orbit. You can check out the movie here.
3/17/01
-rb
Living in
paradise. Earthquakes, droughts and a
forecast of power shortages are the norm it seems
on the west coast of the United States. I
think we really need to get a grip on just how
much power we waste each day. For the most
part the power shortages are from the effects of
El Niņa, La Niņa and by a major influx of
people moving to California, Washington and
Oregon. The weather effects of El Niņa
brought a lot of rain to the northwest in 1997;
in the following years La Niņa brought heavy
rains, and cold temperatures to the southwest
while bringing rain shortages around the
northwest. Since Washington, Oregon and
Idaho rely mostly on hydroelectric power, the low
water levels have driven the power
administrations to release a large amount of
water in the reservoirs. To make matters
even more depressing this action has worsened the
plight of the northwest salmon population,
depleting the amount of water in the rivers at
the time the salmon spawn. Just a little
reminder that life isn't as good as it seems
folks.
It is our
responsibility as citizens to conserve, conserve,
conserve. No matter where you are from take
a look at your life and see where you can
possibly save energy in your household and
business. Seattle City Light has a conservation
campaign to conserve 10% of our power over the
next year. Check it out.
Rob <----- gets
off his soapbox.
Groovetech has fixed the earthquake video link.
3/8/01
-rb
Umm, did someone say
earthquake? Here in the northwest we
experienced a 6.8 magnitude quake on Wednesday,
February 28th. Not much happened at the shop but at my home, a wonderful piece
of glasswork fell off of the mantle shattering as it hit the
floor. =( My heart sank as I walked
through the door and didn't see it where I had
place it just the week before.
I received an
e-mail from Groovetech with a link to their DJ cam when
the earthquake hit. You must have Real Player installed to view it. Check
it out here: http://www.groovetech.com/earthquake.ram Damn the link
doesn't seem to work any longer. I'll keep
it up for a bit and see if the folks over at GT get it fixed.
Oh yeah, Happy
Birthday Guram!
2/9/01
-rb
I've updated the web
pages a bit adding some site navigation links
should help with finding your way around a bit
easier. Sorry the pages take so long to
load up, I don't have enough space to add low
resolution photos for the thumbnails to my
server. I might have to have to pick a
domain name and get my site hosted at some
point. Anyone have suggestions on a cool
service provider? Also I added another
section with more pictures of a biking trip John
and I took part in. You can check them out here. Finally, I hope to
be adding the "Links" and
"About" pages soon.
I've been busy in
the back yard clearing over grown trees and weeds
you can check out the web cam to see a shot. I
don't always have it running but on a nice day
like today I'll fire it up.
