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<\/a><\/p>\nI like the way he mixes traditional Ming-style decoration with complately wild colors and shapes. I also like the way he makes parts look like they are draped material. Brendan’s web site is:\u00a0Brendantang.com<\/a>, but I also found photos at this site:\u00a0Yatzer.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n I said goodbye to Jess in Vancouver. He was flying to San Francisco and I was taking the train to Seattle. It was a great two weeks together! Parts of it were challenging, but we held up and held each other up. I\u2019ve never had the opportunity to spend this much time one-on-one with Jess. We had some good philosophical talks as well as just plain having fun together. This is not a trip that Janie would have enjoyed, so it was nice having Jess as a travelling partner.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I should have known better, but I was really hungry, so I ate a microwaved hamburger on the train. Ew! I didn’t get sick, but it was a good thing I had a beer to wash it down.<\/p>\n Next trip: Australia and New Zealand!<\/p>\n We had an early flight on Thursday, the beginning of a 25-hour odyssey for me and an 19-hour odyssey for Jess. This kind of travel is never fun, but a couple of good things happened. First, I decided to give … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>I had some time to kill while waiting for the train, so I took a little detour to take a picture of one of my favorite buildings, the Vancouver Main Library, which evokes the Roman Colosseum.<\/p>\n+1<\/span><\/a><\/div>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div>