Pictures, Pictures and more Pictures

A slew of holiday pictures - and if you'd rather see all of them here are the two links:

Christmas at the Cabin 2007:


Link

My "forget its christmas, come to a house without decorations and have a fun party right before christmas without presents" party (its a working title):

Link

Highlights:

Snow, snow and snow... then I had to dig out my car:



Things are hard up at the cabin:



Uncle Jimmy had made my mom mad enough on Thanksgiving that on Christmas morning we had to "settle" for French Toast. Now, normally I'm all for french toast, but we normally get wonderful home made christmas breads.

Grandpa was so upset, he boycotted breakfast. I hear Uncle Steven (in Wisconsin) wasn't taking Jimmy's transgressions well either.



The candy that was made, was guarded there was so little of it. We all thanked Jimmy over the coarse of the week...







The "forget its christmas, come to a house without decorations and have a fun party right before christmas without presents" party highlights.


Beer + Rockband = Fun times:

Merry Christmas

The Office

Two things in one I guess. This clip is from a new website that is working with all the major networks to host all their shows - and allow people to link to parts of the show or the whole show if they want to (with very minor commercials).

This clip is from The Office (episode 3 of this year). I love seeing Ed Helms (he's from the Daily Show) on network TV - and just the unabashed effort that went into this is brilliant:



Edit -- Sorry those outside the USA; I've been told by some Canadian friends that you're out of luck on my Hulu videos. Bummer for you.


Oh, and is there any chance we'll have good media in the next 10 years?

Edgeumacation

I know its not often I post something completely educational, but this one I think is worth it simple because how elegantly they describe something we've all heard about, but most know little to nothing about.


Sub Prime Mortgage "craptastic"

Now, you'd think I'd link to some US Company or News Corp... but they, like just about everyone else in the US either know exactly what's wrong and will explain it in perfect financial terms that 0.001% of people understand, or they also have no clue and are just screaming "omg omg omg omg"

So, I give you the BBC. Thank god the British can do something right. (And yes, there's lots of pretty pictures)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7073131.stm?src=rss

Two very interesting sections is the 1st and 3rd. Make sure to check the box "how it all went wrong", and on the 3rd, the true correlation between sub-prime - blacks and foreclosures.

Enjoy your edgeumaction.

Ramblings

Hello my neglected audience of few. I'll admit, I'm way behind on any sort of promised blog schedule. I believe I recall once promising video Fridays and Photo Mondays .. or something like that. Who was that crazy guy? No clue.

I've been told by a couple people that by far the time my blog was the funniest was when I was blogging about working out and getting in shape. Well, lucky for those few, its bound to come up again. Ever since Dominos decided to let their drivers have beer, deliver pizza, and run over Subaru's I have been slowly putting on weight. Sure, I hear some of you, "Come on Bryce, you can stand to put on a pound or two", and to you I would like to point out the couple thousand I just spent on suits - which is by far the biggest motivator (I can put on 20lbs and still use that gym membership next month... if I did that with my suits, it would be slightly more comical than me trying to figure out the elliptical machines).

Unfortunately, 10 months after the accident, I'm still not even close to better. I just had an MRI Wednesday on my right hip - so we'll see where that nets me. Hopefully once we figure out what happened to my hip I can start working off this hibernation fat. =)

As for work, I finally feel like I'm understanding what I'm supposed to be starting to understand. Best way I've been able to put it so far is that it feels like I'm trying to drink out of a fire hose. The amount of information, tasks, and legal language that flies across my desk is nothing short of chaos.

Over on our website you can see some details about the recent loans I've worked on closing, which include:

Catholic Health Initiatives for $289 million
Virginia Mason Medical Center for $321 Million
Northwest Hospital for $84 Million
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research for $5.2 million (just a small admin building)

Not to mention I've also been working closely with the executive director on an RFP for our Financial Adviser contract.

Its fun stuff - believe it or not; though I can't wait until I'm more comfortable with the exact workings of the whole processes. Right now I feel like I understand that the gas goes into the car, but I have no idea why we're moving. =P

So, things coming up:

I'll be out in Atlanta mid next year for Bond Law training.... If you know anyone that is able to inject caffeine straight into my veins, could you have them contact me?

I'm sure there's going to be a slew of Christmas pictures and other stuff as I'm finally going to have a break from working during the week of Christmas.

Lastly, I'm working on Alex, in the hopes that he'll be guest blogging once a week all next year - We'll see if I can make the deal sweet enough for him to actually do it. Otherwise you're stuck with my stale and slow content for right now.

Flood links:

There's some great video's up on the local newspaper website. The videos of Tumwater Falls area is very impressive:

http://videos.theolympian.com/vmix_hosted_apps/p/grid?all=1&class_id=1

I got this picture from my Dad. Yes this is Interstate 5 - the exit for Walmart. I hear that boating through Walmart in the dark is just like a cave; but with cereal floating by.



And not to get too political before the primaries (there's going to be plenty of time for me to do that I presume) - just a funny:

Rain much?

Cooper Point road; one of the busiest intersections in all of Olympia... is not so busy right now.