Weekend update, Food, TV
Friday:
Guys wooworking day in Seattle with Joel (abrahe ). Hit Woodcraft's annual woodworking show, Crosscut Hardwoods, and Rockler doing to 'tool and wood drool'. The show wasn't quite a good as years past (lower travel budgets for manufacturers?), though I'm tempted by some of the classes they had on offer. Crosscut had some really cool boards, and we joked about holding them up ("Two guys last seen southbound on I5 with a U-haul full of mahognany, cherry, and walnut".)
Lunch was beer, pizza, and hot wings at the Pyramid Alehouse.
We also swung by Uwijimaya since we were in the neighborhood because I wanted to look at Nabe pots because that's a style of cooking I'm curious about. Ugly (really ugly) Nabe pots were cheap, decent looking ones ridiculous expensive. Result, I picked up a book on Haiku and didn't pick up any pots.
By the time we got back to Tacoma, rush hour traffic was in full swing. The choice between hanging out with Joel & Peggy & Kate or hanging out in traffic was a no-brainer.
Saturday
Back to Seattle with brenda333 for the Northwest Tea Festival at the Seattle Center. Much, much fun. Tasted many excellent teas and had lunch in Center House (decent fish & chips). Lesson learned: Get the tickets for all the tasting session we're interested in early - they went pretty fast. Afterwords, watched kids playing in the fountain and got some great photographs.
While we were in Center House I perused the display of potential future plans for the Seattle Center. Almost all of them involved outdoor space, outdoor lawns, outdoor theatre, Opening one wall of Center House to the outdoors... Um, guys... Seattle. Fifty five degrees and raining on the Fourth of July. Fire the LA based consultants dudes!
Off to Southcenter to fight traffic and look at [camera] tripods, then dinner at Old Country Buffet in Lakewood before returning home. (I so wish they'd open one up here.)
Sunday
Mostly quiet hanging about the house.
TV:
Watched the premiere of Law & Order: Los Angeles which we'd Tivo'ed... I like the characters, not so much the style which was more in line with Law and Order: Criminal Intent which I don't much care for. We'll see how it goes. We also Tivo'ed the US premiere of Law and Order: UK from BBC America - it will be very interesting to see how that goes.