If you are a local in the area and haven’t been to Orvis, make sure to at least go there once to have a look and meet some of the fine folks like Leland Miyawaki , the Fly Fishing Manager and Dov Young (what is it with all the Youngs in fly fishing around here). 
If you are into salt water fly fishing in Puget Sound, Leland is one of the most knowledgable guides in the area. … If for nothing else, the float would be incredibly scenic (and fun) and it would be good casting practice with a chance to get some 1:1 instruction on techniques like nymphing, droppers, strike indicators and streamers, as well as reading the water, all of which I was still a complete n00b at. 
Every good adventure has a story behind it, and this adventure would not leave us empty-handed.
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Year End Reflection & Fly Fishing the Yakima River
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Where’s Frank been hiding you ask?
I have to admit, I never thought I’d be much for fishing but there’s just something about being out here in the wilderness of the Pacific NW that is absolutely magical and therapeutic. … Now if only I could squeeze in flying and get in a floatplane to get into those really remote areas.
Not quite ready to take that plunge but maybe someday. 
For now, I leave you with my first catch…nice little Rainbow Trout that I released back to the wild to be caught another day. -
Housekeeping issues…
It’s been a busy week of updates and cleaning up the dusty parts of this blog. We now have a brand new look and I’ve added some dedicated pages for my resume, photos and contact info. A couple of housekeeping notes…make sure to update your RSS Feeds if you aren’t seeing them. I’ve republished the [...]
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Wow! My blog is still here?
It’s going to be a bit dusty around here while I get things back in order…but I’m back! … I have been shooting with a Canon Powershot Pro 1 point and shoot for the past few years while my pro rig went mostly unused because I refused to go back to film.
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Is it really August already?
Holy smokes people, where the hell did the past 4 months go? So much for my promises to blog more often. What can I say? There’s no point in even recapping what the tech world has unleashed in 4 months, you already know. What I can tell you is that I am now 9+ months [...]
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Time Warped in Redmond
Holy smokes, has it really been that long since my last post? I just can’t believe how insane the past 4 months have been. In my last post I mentioned that it was like someone had opened up the fire hose and shoved my face in it. I’m here to tell you, things haven’t changed. Although [...]
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Living in a Winter Wonderland
We aren’t living in FL anymore…that’s for sure! Moving is definitely no easy thing, but it has been soooooo worth it. Being from FL, we aren’t exactly familiar with “winter” so it was a bit of a shock to wake up the other day to what you see above.
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Happy New Year!
Let’s celebrate the arrival of 2007!!!Originally uploaded by James.Chen.I know it’s a few days late posting this, but it’s just been a rockin start to the new year. We have finally arrived in Seattle. After SEVEN long days driving from Florida to Seattle, we arrived on New Years Eve just in time to have dinner, watch the fireworks and go to bed. We are still in corporate housing waiting on our moving truck to arrive, hopefully this weekend. Work has been a bit of a slow start, just trying to catch up on emails and getting my mind wrapped around all the stuff I have to deliver in a short amount of time. There’s definitely no better way to learn the job than to be thrown right into it, and that they have done!
I hope to post a little more often as I finally settle in and get into my groove in my new environment. Let’s hope 2007 is better than last year…so far we are off to a great start.* Photo Credit to James Chen on FlickR – Thanks! -
Driving Across the USA
What a nutty past few days it’s been. We left south FL on Christmas morning (afternoon actually) and have been driving since. We stopped in Tallahassee, FL for the first night, and stopped again in Houston, TX last night. So far the plan is to do the long-haul across TX today and try to make [...]
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Darkness in Seattle: The Borg is Powerless
PHOTO CREDIT: MIKE SIEGEL / THE SEATTLE TIMES Wow, so today is Tuesday, December 19, 2006 and I am back in south FL to finish packing the house and get my family…. In the three weeks that I have been living in Seattle, there has been flooding due to higher than average rainfall, snow – and lots of it, as well as the nutty wind storm which have led to massive power outages throughout the region…. Card readers didn’t work and access to buildings was impossible unless someone let you in. I managed to get a cell phone signal (most towers everywhere were out, but we have like 22 just on the Microsoft campus alone)…. Since I had nothing better to do and my flight home wasn’t until 10:30pm, I figured I would just hang out and power would be on soon…. The entire drive there I had cell coverage and was trying to get my wife to book an airport shuttle for me, but I didn’t have my corporate apartment address on me…. I decided to go down the mountain and see if I could get better cell coverage and get a call out to my wife…. I already had permission to leave my car in the Microsoft garage at my building, so I figured I would head out to the campus and catch a bus or cab to the airport from there…. The shortest and most scenic route would take us through some pretty heavy snow areas, so we are taking the boring route along I-10 through the desert to I-5 in Los Angeles and heading north to Seattle from there.
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