Mike Murry

My life. Documented.

 

I am an architectural designer living and working in the Seattle area. This blog is used to document my travels around the world.

Archive for February, 2007

Trip Through Fife

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

What is this? An update?!?
In the first of this semester’s Napier International Student Club trips, we had a guided bus tour of the eastern Fife county.
[Side note: I just realized that the pizza I am presently eating (and just got out of the oven) is covered in mold. I already ate about 40% of [...]

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Google It!

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

In case you happen to want to orient yourself to the city of Edinburgh, and figure out where these places I have been talking about are at, I have uploaded a file for Google Earth which marks the main locations of where I have been. Check it out!

I took this picture from the 6th floor [...]

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Ending Week 2

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

We did a walk through of a condo project on friday for my tectonics class. We got to see much of the process from early construction to finished design.

It snowed a few days back. The canal was frozen over but not thick enough to stand on.

There was a big Rugby game on [...]

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Americana

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

It was early… I wanted a mocha. There happened to be a Starbucks across the street from campus, so I decided to bite the bullet and check it out. As expected, it was pretty much like every other Starbucks in the world. A grande mocha went for £2.89… a bit cheaper than in the states. [...]

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Shocking Occurances

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Microsoft Word just told me I spelled “Color” wrong. It corrected it to “Colour”.
On the British keyboards, the ” and @ symbols have been swapped. ~ and # are on the same key and located where the enter key usually is. I keep mistyping everything and type a # whenever I mean to hit enter.
 
Apparently Scotish [...]

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A Bit of This and That

Monday, February 5th, 2007

So. Turns out I am not keeping regular updates. Shame on me. Especially when so much has been happening.
Since the last post, I moved into university accomodations. Not too shabby. Ok, maybe a little shabby… Pretty typical student housing… rediculously small room, uncomfortable bed, gross color carpet, the whole nine yards. But I finally [...]

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