Seattle goings on
I just started a new gig downtown. It’s a delight to work in downtown Seattle because there’s just a ton of stuff outside the office building, because it’s close to home, and because, hey, it’s downtown Seattle, how great is that? But also, there’s a fun thing that happens as I wend my way downtown …
If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times, take the camera with you when you leave the house. Man, what a great day it was.
Oh, sure a freezer full of soup is a good thing, a great thing even. But better still, the solidarity of our fellow soup makers across the nation who greeted our calls with “Hellooooooooooo Seattle!” We loved hearing about your soup, Genola, because it was so different than ours. Schenectady, we found your enthusiasm charming …
I tend to avoid corporate coffee because yes, I’m that kind of hippie, but today, I’d like to give props to the barristas at our local Tully’s. First, they had the good sense to seize the day and head on to the sledding hill just across the street. We followed them in the door and …
I’m a bit of a soapbox blogger. I stand in the town square and declaim. Blah blah blah, me me me. I’m like that guy downtown in front of Pottery Barn with the sign, shouting at traffic. I don’t really expect you to comment. I enjoy it tremendously when you do, but I don’t lie …
Friends tried to convince me that the thing I needed to do on this lovely snowflocked morning was this: Get in my car and drive to Redmond, home of a Large Software Corporation (LSC), and take pictures of the campus. I do believe it was beautiful there, the grounds at LSC can be lovely and …