Another day, another coffee shop

This time I am coming to you from World Cup, a coffee shop cum wine bar just down the street a piece here in the RD. Otis is off having day with visiting-from-SF brother, so I came down here to "get some stuff done" and "work on my syllabi." Heh.

Yesterday, Otis had her first-ever creativity workshop, and we'll put this one in the win column; Otis talks about it here. From my perspective, the event included a lot of disarray during the prep phase, so I left the house early to keep from sticking my OCD mitts in where they weren't needed.

I took off and did the cat-sitting thing (which involved actually sitting with a cat, as a matter of fact - we watched some TV together) and then stopped at the lube joint to get some windshield washer fluid, which either (a) they forgot to top off when I got my oil changed yesterday (as I and the manager thought) or (b) all drained out through a leak in less than 24 hours (which the service-guy said had happened). Oh-kay.

After that, I made the incredibly long journey all the way out to the wilds of West Seattle to see Neds. I thought I might be just popping in, but after my tiring trek, we sort of made an outing of it. The rain stopped, so we took a walk along the Lincoln Park beach trail, heading to the south end of the park and past the ferry slip, and to a place called Joe's for lunch (well, I had breakfast, but it was early afternoon, so split the difference). It was a good leg-stretch, after which we spent a bit of a lazy afternoon messing about with computers and telling lies to each other and looking at the great view of the water through the living room windows.

I headed back north and got home in time to take Otis for a celebratory dinner after the workshop. A couple burritos and a few coronas later, we weaved (wove?) our way back home, and the rest of the evening is pretty blurry. I know there was music on, and some comics blogging happened, and some other stuff, and we didn't get to bed until after midnight. Good times!

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A Sci Fi Sounds Quiz: Identify sounds from science fiction movies and TV. Yojimbo has already gotten the first three right and he hasn't even clicked the link yet.

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Isn't this cool?



Here's the website of Evil Mad Scientist, the guy what done this.