Found dole whip outside of Hawaii or Disney! And some amazing Poké too!
A valuable way to kill time before our train home.
Category Archives: Personal Rambling
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.
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!
So relaxed
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It’s not actually Josh that’s relaxed in this picture.
Not fair
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It’s always the youngest children that get the free ride… (Although we later decided that if you count dog years they’ve become the oldest children, and quite aged indeed, so maybe it’s fair after all…)
The sun is earning its keep
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The beach is looking nice this morning! (Not too breezy, which I like). Josh is characteristically sneaking around in his secret service sunglasses.
At least we’re both hamming!
Actual beach…
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In the background a three-legged dog plays in the surf.
And no, this time “beach” was not code for “airport”.
Aside
After literally minutes of packing and seconds of contemplation we are finally on the road to the vacation that I’m told will actually be at the beach this time.
Another hike to Silver Falls
On Sunday we went down and hiked Silver Falls. Haven’t been there since we hiked it last spring. Great day for a hike! Took some pictures to send to out of state friends who are missing the green. 🙂
We went “backwards” this time, so the first falls was one of the smaller ones.
Artistic Moss shot:
First falls we get to go behind:
Slightly damp.
I love the rock formations under the falls:
The downside to going backwards is that there’s a rather lot of stairs to get up to above these falls. Couldn’t manage to get a picture of them that conveyed quite how many there were…
Looking back down from above:
Next falls:
It’s hard to get the scale of it all into one picture. The next two are from standing in the same spot:
Part of the trail is not meant for tall people:
There’s a lot more up to go…
Made it to the top:
Two panoramas, because I couldn’t decide which I liked:
