32 posts tagged “seattle”
Crispy breaded shrimp with Audacious Apricot Ale marmalade. Shit’s good.
But you can’t see the beers from this angle.
Woke to the sound of rain on the windows, the weather radar tells the tale.
Flying carpets
Flickr: Don NunnBalcony door was open, warm in the apartment and I was cooking. I kept hearing these odd boom/crash sounds. I wasn’t sure if it was a car backfiring or, who knows, gunshots or whatever.
When I went outside, I caught the end of the carpet installers’ four-floors-up carpet-tossing act.
My Treo’s microphone does no justice to the loudness of the slamming sound these carpet remnants were making.
I love living in the city. :-)
On Sunday morning there was an assault and stabbing in my building. Happened to be my neighbors, and I was the second person to call 911. Spent much of the rest of the day talking to police, writing a statement, giving a recorded interview with a Domestic Violence Unit detective.
I talked quite a bit about this on Twitter Sunday*, but I haven’t mentioned it here until now. I wasn’t sure if I was going to mention it here at all, since it involves other people in a sensitive story, but I decided since it was part of my life and the victim’s anonymity has been maintained in the news coverage, posting about that coverage was okay.
Anyway. After the jump, the latest story about the case from one of the local papers.
* See (in this order) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Charges filed in attempted human ‘sacrifice’
King County prosecutors filed assault charges Wednesday against a Seattle man accused of attempting to “sacrifice” his live-in girlfriend.
According to police, Oumar Lam’s 26-year-old girlfriend arrived at their Queen Anne apartment Sunday to find him laying naked on a couch near a candle-lit altar. The woman told police she was seated on a bed when Lam attacked her from behind, pulling a pillowcase over her head and attempting to suffocate her.
Pulling her head back, Lam, 31, allegedly sliced the woman’s throat while yelling in an unidentified language, according to court documents. She told police she attempted to break away from him as he pulled her toward the altar, at which he had apparently been praying for hours prior to her arrival.
Police assert that Lam continued stabbing her during the struggle, cutting her chest, back and shoulder before she was able to dial 911. The woman, police said in court documents, “was extremely fearful that Lam was trying to kill her as part of a sacrifice.”
The woman told police he was ranting to himself throughout the attack.
“Die, die and go alone,” Lam said repeatedly, according to police reports. “You have to go by yourself.”
The woman fled the apartment, pursued by a still-nude Lam, according to police. Lam dragged her back to the apartment.
Weakened from blood loss, the woman was still able to rush to the door when officers knocked. According to police, Lam continued to chant when confronted by officers.
On Wednesday, prosecutors filed a first-degree assault charges against Lam, with sentencing enhancements for domestic violence and the use of a deadly weapon. Requesting that bail be set at $1 million in the attack, Deputy Prosecutor David Gross described the incident in court documents as a “vicious attack (that) shows that the defendant is an immeasurable threat to the community.”
The woman underwent emergency surgery at Harborview Medical Center following the incident and is expected to survive.
Bail has not been set in the case because Lam, who remains in King County Jail, has refused to attend two hearings. He is scheduled to be arraigned Feb. 11 and faces 10 to 13 years in prison if convicted.
Stopped at the pub on the way home from a few walking errands. Mustn't keep things waiting any longer.
Queen Anne’s westernmost broadcasting tower disappears into the fog on a misty Seattle morning.
Silly Yellow Pages people deliver the stupid books nobody uses anymore even to the businesses that don't yet exist.
New light rope to cast off the gloom.
In chronological order, though I won’t swear to that—even though I’m a complete time-keeping nerdly, I am a bit more casual about it on the weekends:
- Saw that Vienna Teng added a Seattle stop to her tour schedule. Tickets went on sale at 10:00 and I had mine at 10:35, which was about 3 minutes after I saw the tour posting. Playing Sep 04 at the Mainstage at The Triple Door, which happens to be the first place I ever saw her perform live back in 2005. (Upcoming.org event page)
- Worked the usual shift Friday, off at 20:00. I’d bought a dozen doughnuts from Top Pot for the weekly meeting my team has and ended up taking half a dozen home with me, evil in a box.
- Dinner with my cousin at the downtown Cheesecake Factory. I was out until 01:00 Saturday, getting way too old for that.
- Sleep! Glorious sleep! Saturday morning. I hadn’t slept much Thursday night/Friday morning so it was nice not to wake up with the first light of day just after 04:00.
- Fairly quiet morning, and then beer, nachos, and Shanghai rummy on the big patio at Redhook. Hot and thirsty work, it was.
- Met my friends Derek and Mary Saturday night (at their car, they picked me up) for dinner at Tutta Bella in Wallingford. Delicious pizza, and the salad and flatbread rocked too. We were fighting over the tiramisu at the end, very tasty all around.
- I was home a little after 21:00 Saturday. Normally this would have made me feel old, but this weekend it made me feel wonderful—home after two different social engagements! and with 3 hours remaining in the day!—and I celebrated by moving my wine rack from the living room to the front-hall closet. That closet has never been above the mid-60s even on the days my apartment as a whole has hit the low 80s (no air conditioning), so I’ll have better luck with temperature control. Also I won’t run into the rack anymore when I walk between the living room and the kitchen.
- Quiet Sunday morning. Caught up on the news programs, read the paper online, similar leisure activities. Ran a couple errands too, and then I grilled chicken for dinner once the propane tank was out of direct sunlight so it would stop going FNOOOOOOOOOOD when I opened the valve because the gas was so warmed up. Lemon pepper chicken and a baked potato the size of all Idaho, and I learnt tonight that baked potatoes hold on to their heat for absurdly long periods. Burnt my tongue twice, dammit.
