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Invited to dinner by Them (hi,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rubylou and jeliza and drakemonger, that's the abbreviation I've allotted you), with the Meltons, including Ralph's sister Laura, who lives in Seattle, like cool people. I got to eat the so-called leftover asparagus!
We went to the cute little rides at the Seattle Center, which I hadn't ever tried out. The roller coaster is actually pretty good with the G-forces, if not so much with the actual fear of death.
The signs in which they factor the requirements to ride a ride into ten different physical, sensory, and psychological capacities are really quite thoughtful. Too bad somebody's lawyer decided pregnant women couldn't be allowed to sit in the virtual-roller-coaster game.
I think the quote is "A scared child on the ground may well panic in the air!"
Friday
I left work earlyish because I was exhausted and not getting anything done. (And today I seem to have determined that what I did get done that day was wrongly done.) Around lunch I had shuttled the car home since Deanna would need it (because I'd planned the evening's logistics poorly), so I took the bus. Actually the buses were cursed, so I walked over to Aurora; stopped in at Title Wave and browsed a cheering book on toads.
After some zoning out, I went with andthatmathchick and hattifattener and jinian to Fasica, an Ethiopian place a bit south. The food was good, especially the red lentils; when it came time to find them and give them money it did appear that to generate our bill they needed to assemble and sum up all the day's other transactions and tick them off in some fashion. There was a traveling music festival with bands coming through; the one we caught the most of had a trumpet of unusual size, and tasteful stopped guitar through wah and short multitap delay, very nice. Not trivial to hear in there: "fat with lentils" -> "rat with tentacles". Afterwards we dropped by Their place to visit once more before the Meltons started home.
Saturday
We visited the Big Four Ice Caves. Be aware that they're at milepost 26 or so, not 14.5. (Be also aware that the unpaved segment of the highway is just to fool you, only about two hundred feet long.)
I wish I were indestructible so I could go in. The edges of their roofs, thin snow with sun filtering through, were beautiful. Cold air poured out of them; you could see the diffractive shimmer. The best photos, I think so far, were into a cleft in the ice.
The ice melts in concave facets, leaving hollow-ground ridges and pyramids. Why is that?
We tried to find a geocache nearby. A stony streambed meandered as a crouching-low and cluttered tunnel through the thick brush, and we followed it this way and that. When we were good and beat up, we climbed a boulder and saw where the cache might be, but not a way to it. We sat down and ate lunch. (BTW, see comments at bottom re bushwhacking.) On the boulder I picked up a thoroughly rusted safety pin.
For an easier geocache, we tried one by the side of a road. Right by the side of the road. The side of road is littered with bits of an outcropping of cleavable rock, imprinted with fossil leaves.
Sunday
Lazed around. It was good. I did intend to muck with the pictures from Saturday, but oh well.
Monday
We have a gift certificate made out to "Quack of House"! Yup, we won at trivia, by one point I think.
jinian kindly dropped by for lunch (at Phuket, very tasty tom yum noodle thing). We discussed fungi. Today at work was a mass of interesting technical frustration that I think boils down to the fact that VSS sucks dead whales through a cocktail straw. (Or, to be fair, more likely its integration with VStudio is buggy, and from the saga I heard that's always been VStudio's fault. On the clenching hand, nohow should that corrupt the repository.)
Invited to dinner by Them (hi,
rubylou and jeliza and drakemonger, that's the abbreviation I've allotted you), with the Meltons, including Ralph's sister Laura, who lives in Seattle, like cool people. I got to eat the so-called leftover asparagus!We went to the cute little rides at the Seattle Center, which I hadn't ever tried out. The roller coaster is actually pretty good with the G-forces, if not so much with the actual fear of death.
The signs in which they factor the requirements to ride a ride into ten different physical, sensory, and psychological capacities are really quite thoughtful. Too bad somebody's lawyer decided pregnant women couldn't be allowed to sit in the virtual-roller-coaster game.
I think the quote is "A scared child on the ground may well panic in the air!"
Friday
I left work earlyish because I was exhausted and not getting anything done. (And today I seem to have determined that what I did get done that day was wrongly done.) Around lunch I had shuttled the car home since Deanna would need it (because I'd planned the evening's logistics poorly), so I took the bus. Actually the buses were cursed, so I walked over to Aurora; stopped in at Title Wave and browsed a cheering book on toads.
After some zoning out, I went with and
thatmathchick and hattifattener and jinian to Fasica, an Ethiopian place a bit south. The food was good, especially the red lentils; when it came time to find them and give them money it did appear that to generate our bill they needed to assemble and sum up all the day's other transactions and tick them off in some fashion. There was a traveling music festival with bands coming through; the one we caught the most of had a trumpet of unusual size, and tasteful stopped guitar through wah and short multitap delay, very nice. Not trivial to hear in there: "fat with lentils" -> "rat with tentacles". Afterwards we dropped by Their place to visit once more before the Meltons started home.Saturday
We visited the Big Four Ice Caves. Be aware that they're at milepost 26 or so, not 14.5. (Be also aware that the unpaved segment of the highway is just to fool you, only about two hundred feet long.)
I wish I were indestructible so I could go in. The edges of their roofs, thin snow with sun filtering through, were beautiful. Cold air poured out of them; you could see the diffractive shimmer. The best photos, I think so far, were into a cleft in the ice.
The ice melts in concave facets, leaving hollow-ground ridges and pyramids. Why is that?
We tried to find a geocache nearby. A stony streambed meandered as a crouching-low and cluttered tunnel through the thick brush, and we followed it this way and that. When we were good and beat up, we climbed a boulder and saw where the cache might be, but not a way to it. We sat down and ate lunch. (BTW, see comments at bottom re bushwhacking.) On the boulder I picked up a thoroughly rusted safety pin.
For an easier geocache, we tried one by the side of a road. Right by the side of the road. The side of road is littered with bits of an outcropping of cleavable rock, imprinted with fossil leaves.
Sunday
Lazed around. It was good. I did intend to muck with the pictures from Saturday, but oh well.
Monday
We have a gift certificate made out to "Quack of House"! Yup, we won at trivia, by one point I think.
jinian kindly dropped by for lunch (at Phuket, very tasty tom yum noodle thing). We discussed fungi. Today at work was a mass of interesting technical frustration that I think boils down to the fact that VSS sucks dead whales through a cocktail straw. (Or, to be fair, more likely its integration with VStudio is buggy, and from the saga I heard that's always been VStudio's fault. On the clenching hand, nohow should that corrupt the repository.)
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Date: 2003-08-06 02:09 am (UTC)geocache envy!
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Date: 2003-08-05 09:05 am (UTC)I hope you had fun anyway. Really really i do.
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