I ate at Malay Satay for the first time maybe, oh, five years ago. My pal B. and I were on this adventure eating kick and maybe once a month we’d go eat in an ethnic dive restaurant. Malay Satay totally blew us away. Then, when I worked at the start-up, one of the devs …
I missed this item in the news as it went to press just after we left for Canada. That means I found out the hard way, by walking through Volunteer Park, which I do often as it’s just over THERE from my place, and coming across a great scarred stump and a handful of shellshocked …
Back in early June, J. and I were on a thrift store adventure, heading south out of Seattle looking for, well, pirate treasure, secret prizes, vintage Hawaiian shirts, you know. And at some point during the day, we got hungry. Because we were in strip mall hell, we opted for the strip mall hell lunch …
On June 21st, the first day of summer, we loaded the car with camping gear, a ukulele, and Lumpy the Sock Monkey. We pointed the car north and went to look at parts of Canada. The weather was bad, the campground neighbors were loud, and the Rockies were awash in busloads of tourists. Did we …
Our friend Knox told us to go to Drumheller and because it would Not Stop Raining, we did. The week before, Drumheller had suffered from terrible flooding, the kind where all the news is about the flooding. We know this not because anyone told us, but because we were sick and tired of the rain, …
Okay, two brief stories: 1. At Lake Louise, we met the charming and garrulous Neil Cox. Neil plays the Alpenhorn, you know, that big long thing you see the guys in lederhosen wearing in videos of, oh, say, Austria. We had a nice long chat with Neil about where he got his horn (the first …