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"Don't come to Duvall"

News ·Saturday October 13, 2007 @ 22:19 EDT (link)

20070921: From the end of "Transparent Investing":

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And for that we thank you—add yourself to the list of heroes in chapter 7.

20070924: In the Microsoft Duvall employees list, people that don't live here were asking about Duvall and the December 2006 windstorm, which elicited the following reply (sender omitted for privacy, if you're on the list, you can match it with the date if you care):

Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 17:39
To: Duvall MS Employees
Subject: RE: Living in Duvall

I was without power for five days (I live within a few hundred feet of the substation). A friend of mine on Mercer Island was without power for a few hours longer than me, actually. I now have a small generator, more to kill boredom than anything else. Personally I wouldn't make a huge investment in a generator and hardware as a Duvall resident but to each their own. If you have kids it might be more critical to have power.

As always, beware the zombie deer. Oh, and a bear once broke into my house and stole my entire fridge. He also killed my goldfish. You should move to Seattle, honestly.

The power failure did teach me one valuable lesson: if you go without a generator for five days and then track one down, plus gas cans (at great inconvenience!) the power will come on as soon as you get it home.

No, we really don't need any more people here, we have quite enough already, thank you, and overpopulation is killing my trees. (For the record, in the December storm, we were without power for six days, but that wasn't as big an issue as the gaping hole in the side of the house.)

20071005: I wrote some schemas for adding actors to my DVD scan tables (view list), and discussed database normal forms with Honey, but I probably won't bother doing cross-referencing; it's faster to look people up on IMDb; all I'd gain would be not seeing works I don't own, but I might want to see those and consider acquiring them.

20071013: Cut bamboo near house (at the back): the whole grove; it was starting to spread farther than I liked. Started on some roots, more work the next day.