Bev’s discovered a soft serve machine. Apparently I am bad at dispensing soft serve. The entire discussion, quickly summarized, in her exact words: “yours looks like poop.” 
In the background, classing up this strange discussion, is the southern tip of Whitby Island
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Washington state ferry ahoy!
That’s right, a virtual balcony! Complete with curtains when you don’t want the light bothering you. (no, there’s no switch or controls, it’s just a big monitor for a camera outside.) Feeling fancy!
Better. And butter.Â
Back at storyville. I wish we had one of these in Portland.
Not in the spirit of things…Â
It’s not vacation if you’re responding to emails…
Says the guy who brought his laptop so he could work… (I’m self-employed, it’s different…. Right?)
Off on another adventure…Â
Not even on the train for 5 minutes and she’s already consulting the directions for a new stitchy…
The train rolls northward!
Dole whip!Â
Found dole whip outside of Hawaii or Disney! And some amazing Poké too!
A valuable way to kill time before our train home.
Storyville Coffee
I don’t wouldn’t normally go out of my way to talk about a coffee shop I was in. I’m in so many of them, it’s just not interesting. However, I’m going to make an exception.
Storyville Coffee, upstairs in the building right outside Pike Place Market in Seattle, is the first coffeeshop I’ve been in that I legitimately don’t want to leave. Not hipster, not pretentious, super friendly and nice people, lovely chill music playing (no hipster music to be heard), a fantastic view of Puget Sound and the ferries coming and going, good coffee, and a fantastic breakfast sandwich.
Two guys at the next table talking about open source business models, and a bunch of tourists on the couches in ther corner planning their day.
If we had a place like this in Portland I’d pay rent to make keep one of their tables as my office.
Aside
I forgot John Oliver was an idiot and accidentally watched a segment of Last Week Tonight, and now I’m sad.
And the ironic part is that if he said that, on his show, about someone else, he’d expect everyone to laugh along with him at how f*ing stupid whoever he was mocking was. The height of public discourse and satirical analysis he is most certainly not. (Truthful, or capable of intelligent/rational analysis is largely in question, but leaning towards no…)
As an aside, why doesn’t youtube have a “never show me any videos by or about this idiot ever again” option? If I thumbs-down every single video will you PLEASE stop trying to put it on the “suggested next video” list?! STOP SHOWING ME THIS CRAP!
Never use FedEx
In less ambitious news, and the latest in the unending string of their fuckups, FedEx has been sitting on my package for 2 days simply because it’s not due. The best part, I find, is that they own right up to it!
Two opportunities to get it to me, and yet there it sits… Why did I pay $25 for fedex delivery, I might as well just have let USPS do it at this point.
6 to 5 and pick ’em that tomorrow FedEx shows up at our condo, doesn’t even try to use the callbox, and makes me drive to the facility anyway. Nitwits.
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You know it’s a big deal when I dedicate two whole screens to it.
To Mars!