Thursday, February 15, 2007

The Huan Index

Days in Seattle: 19

Days spent alone in the apartment with only a bar stool as furniture and a newspaper as entertainment: 11

Crossword puzzles attempted during those 11 days: 11

Crossword puzzles solved: 0

Jumbles attempted during those 11 days: 11

Fastest time, in minutes, for completing a Jumble: 5

Highest score on Issac Asimov’s super quiz, without cheating: 11

Novels read during one really bored night: 1 (The Catcher in the Rye)

Counties that I’ve traveled into for work: 3

Length, in miles, of the longest round-trip bus ride I’ve taken for work: 70, twice, to an Indian casino in Tacoma, where I aged my lungs about 10 years each time.

Transients that have sat next to me on the bus and engaged me in conversation about how important a good set of headphones are when you don’t have a very nice Walkman: 1

Transients seen drinking booze on the bus: 2

Items purchased at Patagonia’s winter sale: 4

Average discount on those items: 55%

Processor speed, in megahertz, of my computer at work: 800

Price, in dollars, of computer in 2000: 1,538

Processor speed, in gigahertz, of my new Macbook: 1.83

Price, in dollars, of Macbook in 2007: 999

Factor by which my Macbook’s processor is faster than my work computer: 2.5

Number of lawyers I’ve met in social settings: 0

Number of lawyers I’ve interviewed for work: 8

Number of lawyers I’ve interviewed for work who were really nice: 8

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