{"id":6856,"date":"2009-02-09T19:13:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T02:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=6856"},"modified":"2009-02-09T19:11:48","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T02:11:48","slug":"how-bad-can-the-weather-in-seattle-suck-come-see-the-bloodhounds-this-week-and-find-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6856\/how-bad-can-the-weather-in-seattle-suck-come-see-the-bloodhounds-this-week-and-find-out\/","title":{"rendered":"How bad can the weather in Seattle suck? Come see the Bloodhounds this week and find out"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been in Seattle in the late Summer, an idyllic time of year when it barely rains twenty inches a day and when the Banana Slugs<\/a> start to think about snuggling up with you for warmth. I have been on Mount Rainier on Labor Day — playing in the snow.<\/p>\n

(People say “ray-near,” but it should be pronounced “rainy-er.” I live among a bunch of mountains, but not one of them suffers from excess precipitation like Mount Rainier.)<\/p>\n

Brian Brady and I are in Seattle later this week<\/a>. We’re flying up to do a BloodhoundBlog Unchained preview<\/a>, then we’re hanging out through Friday for REBarCamp Seattle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The weather in Phoenix actually sucks right now, but, by state law, I’m forbidden to disclose just how badly it sucks. But our sucky weather is utterly nothing compared to what I have to look forward to later this week in Seattle:<\/p>\n

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Water freezes at 32 degrees. That never happens where I live, in North Central Phoenix. It can happen once or twice a Winter out in the sticks, but in town ice is something we buy at the supermarket to make Irish Whiskey more refreshing.<\/p>\n

My plan is to go totally gnome, comfortably numb, in-to-it like an Inuit. A vast and cumbersome leather overcoat, with a sweater, a scarf, maybe even a hat. To understand how big an exception this is for me, right now I’m wearing a tee-shirt and shorts, no shoes, no socks. And I’m sweating.<\/p>\n

Totally gnome for my presentation, too. Everything we do at Unchained is going to be hands-on, learn-by-doing<\/a>, but I can’t count on being able to do that in Seattle. Instead, as with The Way of the Farmer<\/em> from last May’s BloodhoundBlog Unchained<\/a>, I’m going to go through a lot of hard-headed, practical stuff that you can take home and deploy at once, if you like — if you take good notes.<\/p>\n

It seems likely to me that I’ll be sneezing and sniffling, too. I moved to Arizona from North Andover, Massachusetts, which makes Seattle look like a tropical resort. For the life of me, I cannot remember how I used to survive Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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