Warm Beach, WA

Quick drive to pickup the kid at Warm Beach, WA. Beach in a while ๐Ÿ™‚

ํ•™๊ต ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋กœ ์ถœ์žฅ๋‚˜๊ฐ€์…จ๋˜ ๊ผฌ๋งน์ด๊ตฐ ๋‹ค์Œ ์ผ์ •์„ ๋งž์ถ”๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ•œ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋–จ์–ด์ง„ ์‹œ๊ณจ๋งˆ์„๋กœ quick hop..๋นจ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€์„œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ฏธํŒ…๋„ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ์คŒ์œผ๋กœ ๋•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ๊ณ  ๋ฐ”๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๊ธธ๋กœ ์ž ์‹œ ์‚ฐ์ฑ…..

2022.3

Guinness Draught Stout: Guinness Stands with America Special Edition Can

There are always Guinness beer available at Costco when it comes close to March. Yes – There are two dark beers in the world: Guinness and others. Although I am not a huge beer drinker, I miss the days I enjoyed this ‘water’ at Dublin ๐Ÿ™‚

ํ•ด๋งˆ๋‹ค 3์›”์ฆˆ์Œ์ด๋ฉด Guinness๋งฅ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ”๋‹ค๋†“์€ Costco์— ๋˜ ์‘ํ•ด์ฃผ์…จ๋‹ค. ์—ญ์‹œ ์„ธ์ƒ์˜ ํ‘๋งฅ์ฃผ๋Š” Guinness์™€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ‘๋งฅ์ฃผ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค..์ •๋ง์ด์ง€ ๋ฌผ๋งŒํผ ๊ธฐ๋„ค์Šค ํ‘๋งฅ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ธฐ ์‰ฝ๋˜ Dublin์ด ๊ธฐ์–ต๋‚œ๋‹ค ๐Ÿ™‚

2022.3

Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra: Debut Symphony Orchestra at Benaroya Hall

์ด ํ•‘๊ณ„๋กœ ๋˜ Seattle ์‹œ๋‚ด ๋‚˜๋“ค์ด.. ํ—ˆ๋‚˜ ์ด์ œ๋Š” Downtown์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ณ€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค…ใ…Žใ…Ž

One Sunday afternoon visit to downtown Seattle – but downtown has changed too much

2022.3

Starbucks #3

์Šฌํ”„๊ฒŒ๋„ ์•„๋ฌด๋„ #1์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•ด์ฃผ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค… ๋‚˜๋„ Seattle์—์™€์„œ ๊ฐ•์‚ฐ์ด ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋ฐ˜ ๋ฐ”๋€Œ๋„๋ก Bellevue Square๊ฑด๋„ˆํŽธ ์ธ์  ๋“œ๋ฏ„ Starbucks ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ๊ฐ€ ๋‚ด ๋‚˜์ด๋ž‘ ์‚๊นŒ์‚๊นŒํ•œ #3์ธ์ค„ ๋ชฐ๋ผ๋ณด์…จ๋‹ค.. ๋ชป์•Œ์•„๋ด์„œ ๋ฏธ์•ˆํ•˜๋‹ค…ใ…Žใ…Žใ…Ž

๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋ง›๋„ ๋˜‘๊ฐ™์€๋ฐ ๊ด€๊ด‘๊ฐ์˜ ์ธ์‚ฐ์ธํ•ด๋กœ ์ •์‹ ์—†๋Š” 1ํ˜ธ์ ์—์„œ ์ปคํ”ผ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ๋จน์€์ ์€ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์—†๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์†Œ์‹ฌํ•œ ์œ„๋กœ(?)๋ฅผ..

Had no idea almost in last 15 years that this Bellevue location (across NE 8th from Bellevue Square) was actually Starbucks #3… ๐Ÿ™‚

2022.3

Coffee at Amazon Fresh

Coffee ritual of Saturday afternoon at Seattle now expanded into checking out Self-Serve coffee machine at Amazon Fresh.

This made me wonder whether this is the offspring of Whole Foods or Amazon – well at the end it must be left or right pocket of Amazon but I really liked no-need to pull out my credit card and simply present Amazon App’s instore code for payment.

ํ† ์š”์ผ ์ •์˜ค์˜ ์‹œ์• ํ‹€ ์‹œ๋‚ด ์ปคํ”ผ ์‚ฐ์ฑ… – ๋ญ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋„ ์ปคํ”ผ๋Š” ํŒ”์ง€ ์•Š์„๊นŒ๋ž€ ์ƒ๊ฐ์— Amazon Fresh๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๋ดค๋‹ค. ์–ด์ฐจํ”ผ ์•„๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ์นด๋…ธ ๋จน๋Š”๋ฐ ๋ญ๊ฐ€ ๋ณ„๋ฐ˜ ์ฐจ์ด ์—†๊ฒ ๊ฑฐ๋‹ˆ ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๊ณ ..๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ๋„ ์ฐฉํ•˜๊ณ  ํ•ด์„œ ๋ง์ด๋‹ค..

ํ•œํŽธ์œผ๋ก  ์ด๊ฒŒ ํ™€ํ‘ธ๋“œ์˜ ์—ฐ์žฅ์ผ๊นŒ ์•„๋งˆ์กด์˜ ์—ฐ์žฅ์ผ๊นŒ ์‹ถ๊ธดํ•œ๋ฐ… ์ง‘๊ฐ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด์„  ์ฐจ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ํ™€ํ‘ธ๋“œ๋กœ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋Š”๊ฒŒ ๋” ์ข‹์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์„๊นŒ ์‹ถ๋‹ค.. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์˜จ๊ฐ– Amazon์˜ retail store automation/solution showcase๋ผ ์ข‹๊ธดํ•˜๋‹ค๋งŒ 2์ฃผ ์—ฐ์†์œผ๋กœ ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋Œ€์— ๊ฐ€์„œ ์ปคํ”ผํ•˜๊ณ  ํฌ๋กœ์•„์Œ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๋“ค๊ณ  ๋‚˜์˜ค๋Š”๋ฐ ๋ญ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ํ•œ์ ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด๋ผ์„œ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ ์•„์ง์€ ์ง์›์ด ์†๋‹˜๋ณด๋‹ค ๋งŽ์„๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€์Šด์ด ์•„ํ”„๋‹ค..ใ…Žใ…Ž (๋ณ„๊ฑฑ์ •์„ ๋‹ค…) ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ๊ตฌ์ง€ ์ง€๊ฐ‘ ์—ด์–ด์„œ ์นด๋“œ ์ฐพ์•„ ๊บผ๋‚ด๋Š”๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์•ฑ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์ œํ•˜๋‹ˆ ํŽธํ•œ๊ฒŒ ์ œ์ผ ์ข‹์€ merit์ธ๋“ฏ..

2022.2

Snoqualmie Pass Summit

์• ๋“ค ํ•™๊ต๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ฒˆ์ฃผ๋Š” ๋ฐฉํ•™์ด๋ผ ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ ํœด๊ฐ€ ๋‚ด๊ณ  ์™”๋‹ค.

์ด์ œ๋Š” ์Šคํ‚คํƒ€๋Š”๊ฒŒ ์‹ค๋ ฅ์ด ๋Š˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ํƒˆ์ค„ ์•„๋Š” ๋งŒํผ ์ฆ๊ธฐ์ž ์ฃผ์˜๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๊ฑด๋งŒ ์•  ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ฐ€๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋ธ”๋ž™์—์„œ ๋‚‘๋‚‘๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํƒ”๋Š”๋ฐ ์‘๋‹ฌ์ด ๋งŽ๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์‹ฌํ•ด์„œ ๋น™ํŒ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ๋งŽ์•˜๋˜ ํŒŒ๋ผ์Šก ๋ธ”๋ž™์ฝ”์Šค์—์„œ (+๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์‚ฐ ์ค‘๊ณ  ์Šคํ‚ค; ๋‚  ํŠœ๋‹ ํ•จํ–ˆ์–ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ์˜ฌํ•ด๋Š” ์‚ด์‚ดํƒ€์ง€๋ญ๋ž€ ๋‚˜์˜ ๋งŒํ–‰ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ & ์•„์ง๋„ ๊ธด์Šคํ‚ค ํƒ€๋Š”๊ฒŒ 100% ์ต์ˆ™ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Œ..ใ…Žใ…Ž) ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋‚ด๋ ค๊ฐ€์ž๊ณ  ์š•์‹ฌ์„ ๋‚ด ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ํ„ด ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋‚ด๋ ค์˜ค๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋น™ํŒ์—์„œ ski๊ฐ€ ๊ผฌ์ด๋ฉฐ ๊ฑฐ์˜ slope์˜ 1/3์€ ๊ตด๋Ÿฌ์„œ ๋ฌด์Šจ ๋ฃจ์ง€ ํƒ€๋“ฏ์ด ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์˜จ๋ชธ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ด๋ ค์™”๋”๋‹ˆ ์˜จ ๋ชธํ†ต์ด ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์ €๊ธฐ ํ†ต์ฆ…ใ…Žใ…Žใ…Ž ์ฝ”๋ฏธ๋””๊ฐ€ ๋”ฐ๋กœ ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค. ํด๋Œ€ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ์Šคํ‚ค ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๋‚ ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด์„œ ํ•œ 1๋ถ„์ •๋„๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋ชธ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ด๋ ค์˜จ๋“ฏ…๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋’ค์— ์˜ค๋˜ skier๊ฐ€ ์ง‘์–ด์ฃผ์‹  ๋•๋ถ„์— ๊ฒจ์šฐ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ •์‹ ์ฐจ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‚ด๋ ค์™”๋‹ค.

์‚ฌ์‹ค ์ƒˆ๋กœ ์Œ“์ธ ๋ˆˆ์ด ์žˆ์–ด ์ตœ์•…์˜ ์„ค์งˆ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์˜€์ง€๋งŒ ๋ช‡์ฃผ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๋‹ค ์ด๋ฒˆ์ฃผ์— ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋ˆˆ์˜ค๋ฉด์„œ ์จํ•˜๊ณ  ์ถ”์œ„์ง„์ง€๋ผ ์‘๋‹ฌ์ฃผ์œ„์— ๋ˆˆ์ด ์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง€๋ฉด ๋น™ํŒ์ด์—ˆ๋Š”๋“ฏ… ์Šคํ‚คํƒ€๋‹ค ๋„˜์–ด์ ธ๋„ ์•ˆ์•„ํ”ˆ๊ฑด ํ™•์‹คํžˆ 20-30๋Œ€ ๋•Œ์ธ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด๋‹ค ์‹ถ๋‹ค.. ๐Ÿ™‚

์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์˜ค์ž๊ณ  ๋ช‡์ฃผ๋ฅผ ์กฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด์„œ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๊ฐ•ํ›ˆ์„ ์‹œํ‚จ ์ž‘์€๋„˜๋‹˜๊ป˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค… “๋‹ค๋ฅธ๊ฑด ์•ˆ๋ฐ”๋ž€๋‹ค… ๋‚˜์ค‘์— ์–ด๋ฅธ๋˜์—ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์•„๋น ๊ฐ€ ํ”ผ๊ณคํ•œ๋ฐ๋„ ํœด๊ฐ€ ๋‚ด์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์™”๋‹ค๋Š”์ ๋งŒ ์žŠ์ง€ ๋ง์•„์ฃผ๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ž˜..” ๋‚ด ๊ผฐ๋ ฅ์ด ์ƒ์Šนํ–ˆ๋‹ค…ใ…Žใ…Ž

As kids had a winter break this week and my #2 had insisted to come here for long period, I had a day off from work and had a fun ski day. Fun ski day exploded with record knock out at Parachute slope which I slid down 1/3 of slope with my body in head-first posture. (and I am paying the price with pains in various body parts – left hip, chest, right neck etc – maybe the time when one doesn’t feel pain after a knock out in Ski slope is when one is in 20s or 30s ๐Ÿ™‚ )

All I asked to my son was “One day when you grow up, please remember your father who worked crazy hours carved out one full day to throw his body to fulfill your ask and fun :)”

2022.2

Snoqualmie Pass

์ง€๋‚œ ์ฃผ๋ง ๋‚  ์šธ๋ฉด์„œ ์šด์ „ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“  ๋ˆˆ๊ณผ ๊ฐ‘์ž‘์Šค๋ ˆ ๋–จ์–ด์ง„ ๊ธฐ์˜จ์ด ์Œ“์—ฌ ์‚ฐ๋™๋„ค๋ฅผ ํ•˜์–—๊ฒŒ ๋ฎ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ๋‹ค…

The one made me cry during last weekend’s trip from Yakima along with week long cold weather made the mountain pass all white.

2022.2

Presidents Day 2022

๋‚ ์”จ๋„ ํ™”์ฐฝํ•œ๋‚  ๊ธฐ๋ถ„๋„ ์ข‹๊ณ  ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค๋„ ํœด์ผ์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๊ณ ํ•ด์„œ ์ข€ ์Œ€์Œ€ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‚˜์„ฐ๋‹ค… ๋‚˜๋ฆ„ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด route๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์ฒ™ํ•ด๋ณธ๋‹ค๊ณ  520์„ ํƒ€๊ณ  ๊ฐ€๋‹ค๊ฐ€ Northup Way์—์„œ ๋‚˜์™€ Bel-Red์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์˜ค๋Š” ๊ธธ… ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ๋„ ๋ง›๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ๋จน๊ณ  ์ƒˆ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ธด ๋™๋„ค์˜ ๋‚จ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์บ ํผ์Šค๋„ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ ๋ณด๊ณ ..

However…. ๊ธฐ๋ณธ/๋ฏผ์งœ ์ž์ „๊ฑฐ์˜ ํ•œ๊ณ„์ธ๊ฐ€… ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋‹ค ๋Œ์•„์˜ฌ๋•Œ์ฆ˜ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ block ์–ธ๋•์„ ๋‚‘๋‚‘๋Œ€๋ฉฐ ์˜ฌ๋ผ์˜ค๋Š”๋ฐ ์ฒด์ธ์ด ์ดํƒˆํ•ด์„œ ์‹ฌ์ƒ์น˜ ์•Š๋„คํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค์‹œ ์žฅ์ฐฉํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ”๋Š”๋ฐ ์ข€ ๊ฐ€๋‹ค ํ……ํ……ํ•˜๋”๋‹ˆ “๋น ์‚ญ”๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ฒด์ธ์ด ๋‚ ๋ผ๊ฐ€์ฃผ์…จ๋‹ค…๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋ฏผ์งœ๋ฅผ ์ž‘๋…„ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹ฌ์‹ฌ์ฐฎ๊ฒŒ ๊ตด๋ฆฌ๊ธด ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ ์•„์ง ์ด์ •๋„๋กœ…ToT

๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์ตœ์• ํ•˜๋Š” ๋™๋„ค ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์ „ํ™”์ฃผ๋ฌธ๋งŒ ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์‹๋‹น์•ˆ์—์„œ ์‹์‚ฌํ•˜๋Š” ์†๋‹˜์„ ๋งž์•˜๊ณ , Meta๋Š” ๊ฑด๋ฌผ ๋ฐ–์—์„œ ์™€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋Ÿฌ์›Œํ•˜๋Š” ์ž์ „๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ํƒ„ ํ–‰์ธ์˜ ์‹œ์„ ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์•„๋งˆ์กด๊ณผ ebay๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ ํ•œ๊ฑด์”ฉ ๋”ฐ๋‚ด์…จ๊ณ  YouTube๋Š” ์ž์ „๊ฑฐ ์ฒด์ธ ๊ต์ฒด ๊ด€๋ จ ์กฐํšŒ ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋Š˜๋ ธ๋‹ค.. ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์–ป์—ˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€? ์ฒด์ธ ํ•จ ์–ด์ผ€ ํ•ด๋ณด๋ ค๋‹ค ์†๋งŒ ๋”๋ ตํžŒ๋“ฏ…:)

Fine Presidents day biking end up with broken chains – lucky it happened almost close to home but painful ๐Ÿ™‚ Anyhow, my favorite local burger shop finally had a visitor who actually made first in-dining visit after few phone orders before, Meta had envying eyes on its new building in Bellevue, eBay and Amazon had new orders, and YouTube had increase in traffic of searching for bike chain replacement.

and I end up having a dirty hand from broken chain inspection process ๐Ÿ™‚

2022.2

Drive back to Home: Manastash Ridge

์‚ด์ง๋ถˆ์•ˆ์€ ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์ผ๋‹จ ๋จน๊ณ  ๋ณด์ž๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์ €๋…๋จน๊ณ  ์ง‘์œผ๋กœ ์ถœ๋ฐœํ•˜๋‹ค Manastash Ridge ์˜ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋ง‰์˜ I-82์˜ ๋์ž๋ฝ์—์„œ ๋งˆ์ฃผ์นœ Ellensburg๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ํ’๊ฒฝ… ์ด๋•Œ๋งŒ ํ•ด๋„ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์€ ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ์ง‘์— ์˜ค๋Š”์ค„….ใ…Žใ…Žใ…Ž

Slush์™€ ์ง„๋ˆˆ๊นจ๋น„๋กœ Snoqualmie Pass์—์„œ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์šธ๋ฉด์„œ ์šด์ „…์šฐ๋ฆฌ Sonata๋กœ ์šฉ์ผ€ ๋ฒ„ํ…ผ๋‹ค…

Thrilled ride back to home. Things turned into drama after this scene when we encountered final boss named ‘Snoqualmie Pass’ but safely landed back at home. ๐Ÿ™‚

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