Sunny Day Sunday
Yesterday was a sunny and successful day. I woke up to my phone-alarm at 5:50 and showered, then had breakfast with Dan at Chaces’ Pancake Corral. After this, I headed home and switched the Highlander for the Truck and my bike. The next stop was Ian’s house for the TRC leadership meeting, which I thought was pretty productive. I had to leave that about 40 minutes early to make it to the South Bellevue Park & Ride, where I met up with Dan and biked West across the I-90 bridge. We made it to the Mercer Island-Seattle bridge deck around 11:40, and the Blue Angels arrived a bit after noon. The show was quite good – better than last year’s, if I remember correctly. It was fairly long – over 30 minutes – and displayed a good number of tricks, including four or five at the end of the show with all six planes working together. It was a good time. After the show, we ate at Subway on the island, then headed back to my truck which we took into Seattle to search for housing for me. We found a number of nice and a few sketchy places that I’m looking into, then enjoyed some Jamba Juice before heading back. I had dinner with the Marshes, excellent ribs by Jay and a great supporting cast including beans, vegies, salad, and bread by Kay. The Parkins were also in attendence, and the conversation was good. The night was wrapped up by watching fear.com, a pretty ridiculously bad movie, but, as I was explaining to Jason, not as bad as some films I have seen. It kept me up a little longer than I would have liked and then I compounded the problem when I stayed up and chatted online. The result is this – although I woke up at 5:50 to my phone alarm, I went back to sleep and only became cognisant around 9:00am. So that didn’t work so well. However, I should be back in my own bed tonight – when I visited yesterday to pick up some stuff, the toxicity part II was mostly dissipated, and the ventilated rooms, including mine, were quite nice to be in. Many thanks to the Marshes for letting me hole up here in the meantime. I enjoy avoiding affixiation.