I have been rather tardy at keeping my blog updated of late. There are a few things I should catch up on that have happened since I moved back from Norway to the Island. But rather than give the game away by telling you a little of those events, I am just going to dive straight on into today's post. The other stuff can wait for another day. Isn't procrastination useful? Anyway, a few weeks ago I woke up with the tail end of a brilliantly vivid dream. I can't remember the specifics of what was happening suffice to say that I was on a skateboard and...
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Welcome to the weblog of John Sinclair. I started this blog back in the middle of 2006, just after I had ran the Moscow Half Marathon. Rather than send out the usual mass email to everyone, I decided to follow the current web trend and start up a blog with Blogger.com. Very quickly I became frustrated with the limitations of that blog host and switched to Movable Type to give me far greater visual control over my blog presentation.
I’m not an active blogger; my entries are sometimes months apart as I feel compelled to document only the significant moments of my life. But recently I have been using this blog as an opportunity to record events from my distant past that may get lost as I get older and my memories gradually fade. My goals of describing how I got to be where I am today are perhaps somewhat narcissistic, but there is also a purer objective. I want to have something in place for when my daughter is old enough to be interested about her family history. Maybe she’ll laugh, maybe she’ll cry, or maybe she won’t care about my exploits at all.
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I’m not an active blogger; my entries are sometimes months apart as I feel compelled to document only the significant moments of my life. But recently I have been using this blog as an opportunity to record events from my distant past that may get lost as I get older and my memories gradually fade. My goals of describing how I got to be where I am today are perhaps somewhat narcissistic, but there is also a purer objective. I want to have something in place for when my daughter is old enough to be interested about her family history. Maybe she’ll laugh, maybe she’ll cry, or maybe she won’t care about my exploits at all.
I value your comments, so tack some of your own words onto the end of my text. Or click the power bars to rate my entries, bad to good, on a sliding scale of one to five. Why not bookmark the site, subscribe to the blog for earlybird updates, or subscribe to my RSS feed?
All the best,
I have been rather tardy at keeping my blog updated of late. There are a few things I should catch up on that have happened since I moved back from Norway to the Island. But rather than give the game away by telling you a little of those events, I am just going to dive straight on into today's post. The other stuff can wait for another day. Isn't procrastination useful? Anyway, a few weeks ago I woke up with the tail end of a brilliantly vivid dream. I can't remember the specifics of what was happening suffice to say that I was on a skateboard and...
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Work in progress... 
I discovered this cool video generation service just this morning (www.animoto.com), and without a doubt it really rocks for creating simple but professional looking videos! Check out this video I produced of Elsa's last photo shoot... 
Surprisingly, during Elsa and Cameron's last few days in Norway, and among the chaos of packing and organizing their departure, I managed to fulfill Elsa's birthday request: that of, I take beautiful pictures of her newly shaved head. I had tried a couple of weeks earlier, immediately after Cam and I had cut everything off, but the results were, to be honest, absolutely terrible. I just couldn't get the studio lights set up correctly, and made the mistake of feeding through the images to the huge flat screen TV that...
After a few weekends of practice with Dad running behind the bike offering assistance when needed, Cameron's bike riding skills jumped up exponentially one evening and she left Dad standing still! Truly amazing to see how fast everything clicked together for Cam and she took off by herself. I think now our daily ritual will be afterschool riding around the underground parking lot of the apartment building. No stopping her now! (except when people come in to park their cars:-))
One of the great things about Norway is the abundant cycle paths around the country. Pretty much you can get to where you want to go without ever touching a car filled road, which is a good thing considering that the average Norwegian driver isn't much better than the Russian drivers I had experienced whilst six years in Siberia. It's not that they are actually bad; they just seem completely ignorant about roundabouts and the use of turn signals.
Without a doubt, Norway is expensive. Once you've gotten over the initial shock of converting the prices from Kroner into Dollars and gasping with disbelief, then converting it once again just to be sure you didn't miss the decimal place, the concept of living here becomes an expensive normality that you just have to accept. Really, for some things it's not that bad compared to the San Juan Island, yet for others it is frightening...
So here I am, days away from signing a two-year lease agreement on a retail space located in the auspicious Pioneer Square district of downtown Seattle. Which if you know Seattle at all, you will know that it isn't really a square, but an area of about twenty city blocks packed full of restaurants, galleries, and tourist traps: where the affluent brush shoulders with the homeless. An odd mixture of the classes, both co-existing on the same sidewalk, equally visible and invisible...
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