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And they were all yellow

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My cold is mostly gone and I’ve gone back to work. There’s not so much going, actually, because it’s all happening in my sunny Seattle living room. I’m getting reconnected with my people, too, which is exactly as much fun as I’d expected it to be. I’m also rekindling my romance with the city, my neighborhood in particular. This has involved the following activities:

• Going shopping at Trader Joe’s where I bought Thai potstickers, juice, Emergen-C, wasabi peas, and a few other snacky things.
• Eating lunch with M. at Crave. The baked beans were okay - I had to send them back to be reheated - but the cornbread kicked some serious butt and the salad was excellent.
• Going for a walk with K. through Volunteer Park after lunch at my house. Wow, the daffodils are crazy yellow.

The downside to being back in Seattle includes:

• Shelling out another 300 and change to have the ignition in my furnace repaired, again.
• Burly guys discussing my sewer line. Can you burst a 4inch pipe or not? Will fixing the slump fix the sewer problem or not? Who can say?
• Drug dealers appear to be using the junction box across the street across the streets as a drop spot. I suspected this before I went away but yesterday, I’m pretty sure I watched a deal go down. You know, if they could get that stuff at the supermarket I wouldn’t have these sketchy people loitering around my neighborhood.

Meh. Such is home ownership and city living, eh? I might be naiive, but it all seems like annoyances to me, not stuff that’s freaking me out. But you can bet I’ve got an eagle eye on the street and one hand on the phone in case I see it happen again.

It looks like I’ll be picking up another contract project next week but I’m not counting the chickens just yet. Still, they sound like nice folks and recently, while working on the ongoing project I’ve been doing I realized that I kind of enjoy the plain old vanilla work of writing procedural documentation. It’s my dirty little secret. I like to write online help. It’s so straightforward and satisfying and when I’m done, I’m done. I have a sense of accomplishment. Oh, yeah, and a check.

Today I chatted with J. who curates the shows for Verite. I’m on for the mid-May. Now I need to look in to presentation - framing and mounting and all that expensive nonsense, but I’m psyched. And J. is psyched too, he tells me everything he sees looks just so much the same and that my new work doesn’t look like anything else he’s seen. He predicts it will be a great success. I’m just hoping to pull it off without feeling too stupid, after all, it’s been eons since I’ve shown anything. And this work is, well, a little odd.

Anyway, it’s good to be back in the city by the sound.