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August 27, 2007

What I Did On My Summer Vacation a.k.a. Dude, Where's Your Blog?

Where I've been for the past month when I haven't been blogging (and also some ideas about where I've been blogging)

Admittedly, things have been a bit dark here on ThatKid for the past month, and not just because it's summer here in C@L and I've been out and about most nights and weekends. That would imply that I haven't been playing with the Internets, and that's not exactly true -- though it's more a story for another post. It's really a little from column A, and a little from column B.

Today we'll discuss column A -- being out and about. (Column B we'll share a little later this week, when we're good and ready.) Mostly column A (what you're reading right now) is going to be a little show-and-tell with a bunch of my favorite photos from the past month. It's been a great month in C@L (and Nashville, and Lake Chelan), and these are my key photographic takeaways:

1. Go Mariners!: I actually hit Safeco four (4) times in 10 days in over the first two weeks of August. I can't say enough nice things about Safeco -- it's convenient to downtown, easy to get in for cheap, and -- gasp! -- the home team has actually been playing pretty well (they're the current leaders in the Wild Card race). After watching the Sonics lollygag their way through the season, I'm pretty fired up for a September pennant chase/ meaningful late-season sports here in C@L. Like the Sonics, I can comfortably root for the Mariners (as they're in the AL and have no real bearing on the official hometown team back East) and will wish them the best over the next month. Also, I need some Ichiro swag. Also, the view of the sunset from Safeco is pretty tight.

2. In which I finally eat at Salumi: after living here for two whole years, I finally found a way to get my greedy little paws (and my attendant passion for sandwich photography) on a Salumi sandwich. Or, rather, my gloriously generous buddy waited on line while I looked for parking and picked up two sandwiches so that we could each sample a half of both. Salumi is this outstanding little specialty shop -- with celebirty chef connections, etc etc -- that does a limited run of cured pork products and is open only from Tuesday through Friday from, wait for it, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. That's right. They're open 20 hours a week. Hence I had never been able to make it for lunch (since I work on the other side of the cursed bridge). For the record, the sandwiches were delicious, though I have some sligght quarrels with the bread. But the actual ingredients (the prosciutto and sopressata) were extremely tasty, and I think i would have been just as happy eating them by hand.

3. In which I give the tour: had a couple rounds of visitors out to C@L this past month, and definitely enjoyed playing the host. For the record, the standard tour includes the following: trip to Ballard locks to see the salmon, trip to Pike Place market to see the salmon get tossed (and possibly to acquire a delicious candy apple), trip to Ray's Boathouse to eat salmon, drive-by of Space Needle and EMP, and, time permitting, missions to the George and Dragon and Olympic Sculpture Park. It was a pleasure to host, and I hope to give some more tours in the coming months.

And that's the update for now. I swear I'll get some more details up here on how I've been spending my time on the Internets, but you might suspect that it has something to do with the topic area that usually consumes a lot of my time, attention, and blogging energies this time of year.

(It rhymes with Thrilladelphia Seagulls.)

Posted by thatkid at August 27, 2007 11:33 PM under ThatKid

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