Longwalkhome

Birthday weekend, went for a walk around the Hill.  Swung by Volunteer Park for the first time, very cool.  Who loves plants (flickr set)? I do.  I think following roughly in the vein of our friend, Alicia , I may have the occasional flower type photo here.  Remember though, I am still tough as nails.

Also, this guy was there….we thought his clothing was very appropriate and at no point did we follow him around sniggering.

Another friend has made the jump to Macery. Excellent. Now he did this without my influence and mostly because his school, Full Sail, sets up their curriculum to support OSX distribution. Which is really really cool.

Getting to where coffee shops have more Apple’s than other machines on The Hill. Big change from a few years ago.

Also, I did mention my new lappy will be here in a few weeks?

Being the romantic guy I am, I got this this for Kate for Christmas. The little bugger collapses for easy carrying and has an arm that folds out to hook grocery bags to. Brilliant, Kate and roll the two blocks from QFC with a full week’s load of groceries without a problem.

When deployed it at the grocery store the checkers all gathered around to admire our awesomeness and wish they had uber-sensitive men like Me to give them shopping carts. One nice lady offered her input on the best option of reusable bags to use and where best to find them.

Good times.

“Hey, you want some pants! $10! Size 40. You want ‘em!” Says a guy that walks past me while I eat lunch. This is the second time I have been offered clothing here on Broadway (see 99 cent Jacket).
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New all time favorite place to get a good, reasonably priced, bite on the Hill.

Ali Baba Enterprises (heretofore to be called ABE) offers Mediterranean grub. But dang if it isn’t good stuff. We knocked off a chicken gyro and some falafel. The owner brought out some sweet tea, sage I think, that hit the spot.

ABE comes in a fair bit cheaper than the other Mediterranean offerings on the hill, is open earlier in the day during the week, and is right on par in terms of tastiness.
Also, any restaurant with “enterprises” in the name is pretty great.

Ali Baba Enterprises
408 Broadway E
Seattle, WA 98102
Capitol Hill Neighborhood
(206) 860-6826

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Sitting at coffee this morning at Bauhaus showing a little some Mac Fu to Devin. Redkev concurrently contacts me saying his old windows lappy is nearly dead and that he wants me to take him the Apple Store today to look at a replacement.

Could 3-way iChat be long coming? Me thinks perhaps.

I went for my regular bi-decadal eye checkup, knowing full well I have janky vision and will be scoffed at.

When it comes time to read the letters off the wall, I could only read the big huge “E”. Like the one that is an entire row, the one that is the same size they use for banners when towed behind airplanes.

So, now. I am glassed and adapting to enhanced vision.

By the way, my friends at Capitol Hill Vision were great.

Well if not Goodness, at least mediocrity. Just playing around for now, working on something a bit more engaging.

Time Lapse from longwalkhome

Excuse the screen in the shot, it was just a test.

Moving is really awesome. You realize you have way too many things in your possession and then have to go through whole process of getting rid of them.

Any ways, yes. We are quasi-settled in and feeling good.

More in come in a short while.

Now that I am on the Hill and have some more interesting landmarks to remark on, I referred back to wikimapia. As I have covered before on the CHILL site, wikimapia is a user based collaborative geographic doodad.

Near to me you find such wonders a street marked “DO NOT PARK HERE!”

Nice.