Made a stop at this botanical garden located about fifteen minutes from downtown Bellevue. An interesting object that I saw was a mannequin comprised of paper swans located insides a Japanese styled building.
I did a trip to this Japanese garden with about one-hundred years of history today. It’s located along the southern part of Seattle. The park is located unassumingly in a residential area that is quite far from areas with high foot traffic relative to other parts of Seattle.
The brother of one of my old friends tasked me to liquidate 14 years worth of IT equipment for his company. The range of IT equipment ranged from network appliances, monitors, laptops, cables, adapters, etc. I used Craig’s List, OfferUp, eBay, and Amazon marketplace to offload the items. Some notable items that were given to […]
I went with my mom for a short trip to get some fresh air at the UW Arboretum. We haven’t been to the place in ages, so it was a pleasant refresh. In walking through the place, construction on the 520 Floating Bridge was viewable.
One of my friends gave me about seventeen years worth of designer goods such as mini-purses, crossover bags, clutch purses, pouch bags, necklaces, and wallets to offload, and I went through the OfferUp, Craig’s List, and eBay to sell them. Surprisingly, I did not sell any of the items locally through OfferUp or Craig’s List […]
As one can imagine during this Covid-19 pandemic, a significantly larger amount of people are staying at home and not venturing out which has directly led to a huge spike in demand for electronic gaming. In addition, huge demand for more laptops, desktop computers, and other electronic devices for remote work has drove a silicon/semi-conductor […]
The family of my friend Patricia was moving and needed to offload about thirty-five years worth of items. Since liquidating stuff on eBay, Craig’s List, OfferUp, and Amazon is a hobby of mine, I couldn’t resist taking all of that stuff. The experience was very eye-opening to say the least, and I had to make […]
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This was a small project to remedy some of my boredom due to the Covid-19 lockdown/shelter-in-place order in Washington which started on March 23, 2020. Compared to my previous computer builds, I took the aesthetic details up a notch with some magnetic blue LED strips. I had a Samsung SSD, MSI video card, and an […]
This PC build took me about one month to accumulate all the parts for the cheap, mainly due to the wait on a decent new basic video card to go on sale. Many used video cards seem to be very bad value at the time of searching through the used marketplaces of eBay, Craig’s List, […]
The Fry’s Electronics of Renton looked very dismal to say the very least. From my take on it, it seems like the business as a whole is about to go out of business. From walking through most of the store interior, it seemed like that they had little to no new merchandise and this was […]
I flew down to SoCal for the weekend to attend the wedding of my friend Travis and his wife, Cassie. I hungout in Ontario, Ranch Cucamonga, Redlands, and Yucaipa. Rancho Cucamonga had an 85º Bakery Cafe and that was where I bought some baked goods which were surprisingly cheaper (10-12%) than my local one.The weather […]
I drove down to Portland to visit my friend Wes one last time before he moved to Ohio. We mostly did food cart crawling around Lloyd Center, the waterfront near the Willamette River and Saturday Market, and Portland State University. Wes and I were impressed that Portland State University had its own Farmer’s Market inside […]
Today was the opening celebration of the new Highway 99 Tunnel to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct. The area was closed down to vehicles, but people were allowed to walk through, and I happened to do so with some friends. There were King County Metro Buses to shuttle people around the various celebration zones around […]
Today, I went to pick a pallet of twenty-four computers that I won an online auction for the City of Everett. The batch of computers was comprised of Dell Optiplexes and Precisions manufactured from 2010-2013. My Mitsubishi Outlander Sport was able to fit all the units snugly to the point that I had to place […]
This was an iBuypower gaming PC that I saw for sale at the Covington Walmart today and I thought it was terrible value overall. For that price range, the gaming PC had only two RAM slots instead of four which prevents expanding RAM capacity without taking the current ones and replacing them with higher capacity […]
I was at the Walmart in Covington today and was checking their electronics section and spotted a camo-skinned laptop by HP. Judging from the specs and price, it wasn’t very high quality or rugged/military-grade. There were no dust-proof or water-resistant certifications on the specs and I didn’t expect it to have them at that very […]
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In my opinion, this was an epic road trip to say the least since it involved driving from Kent all the way down to San Diego and back again. Notable cities/towns visited were of the following: Portland Fresno Bakersfield Los Angeles San Diego Monterey Monterey Park Encinitas Santa Barbara San Jose San Francisco Redding […]
Recently, I was reading through blogs and news sites and found out there were companies capitalizing on the fact that air pollution is so extreme in most major cities in China by selling cans of fresh air. There is no scientific or medical evidence that these contraptions could lead to improved health, but hey … […]
Another day trip in the Vancouver area, just hung out in Metropolis at Metrotown, Crystal Mall, Aberdeen Centre, and Granville Island. I saw a tutoring center in Crystal Mall boasting tutoring that would give kids a shot at the Ivy League at Crystal Mall; I found it kind of funny that a tutoring center with […]