So apparently I've used up my entire space allotment of photos on this blog so I can't post any more directly into this page. So there'll just be more links instead.
And after a spell of inactive life, things began to happen.
Like rain. Heavy rain. And Wind. So much so that most of the trees are now lacking leaves. All said leaves are now clogging the gutters creating massive puddles everywhere. You know for a city that's always wet you'd expect them to have a really superb drainage system. Every drain on every corner was clogged. I refused to walk on major roads because there wasn't a safe no-splash zone in the whole city.
On some of my dog walks I get to climb hills peppered with suburban houses. Long windy roads that snake and coil up the landscape. I found a lookout spot on one of them and took a reference of the storm vs. the hour of sun every day. That shows you the difference fifteen minutes can make in Seattle. It's amazing.
We met Annie. Annie is Dylan's new violin teacher. We are in the process of teaching her how to read music. Any questions? Listening to these two talk politics over vietnamese food and beer is a smack-in-the-face approach to social studies. She called out Dylan on claiming to be a Libertarian but admitting it wouldn't work. He called many of her viewpoints romantic. I drank tea and played ukelele for lack of any input.
The next night I went to The Crocodile and saw The Internet play.
**A note about The Crocodile. It only recently became an all ages club. As of now the floor is open but the balcony is 21+ with the bar. Apparently it used to be the other way around with all the littlins upstairs away from the booze and the 21+ crowd against the stage. The upstairs has a great view off the balcony and almost no one stays up there the whole time so I didn't mind a bit. Microbrew taps are about $4 for a decent sized cup and the bands help set up and tear down their own gear. My only issue with The Crocodile is the tickets said doors at 7 show at 8. I got there at 930 and the opener hadn't even played yet. Apparently the outside didn't open til 8 and they wouldn't let anyone out of the bar and into the venue til 830. Show didn't really start til quarter after ten. Made getting up for work at 530 the next day a tad difficult.**
The Internet, which is composed of Syd the Kid, Odd Future's DJ, and Matt the Martian, an Odd Future Producer. The music for the album is almost entirely created on electronic keyboards but has a lot of elements of funk, soul, R&B, lounge, psychedelia, and hip-hop. Both odd future concert's i've been to were 6 or 7 guys rompin around rapping over their song's playing through the P.A. So you can imagine my surprise when I see a drum set, and electric rhodes, a bass and a midi keyboard set up after the opener. and MAN could those guys PLAY!
The opener was a ridiculous group called KingdomCrumbs. They were an old school dance rap kind group. Brooklyn house party kind stuff. Harmonies, fun beats, synchronized zz top-esque two steps and loads of pointing in unison. They did a great job of warming up the crowd for the show.
After the show I walked around back half expecting (with out past luck in Seattle) to run into one or both of the bands. Instead I found an idol built into the alley wall.
I walked back to the car in the cold, empty, streets and drove home.
Then work started to pick up with the holiday season.
This is what I walk into on a normal day care day. A normal busy day tops out at about 60 dogs on the floor.
This is what I walked into yesterday. We had 78 dogs on the floor at any given time.
So many dogs we had to divide the floor with the back half becoming a favela of dog crates for the extra dogs to live in. Apparently xmas is gonna be even worse looking upwards of 90-100 dogs. Gonna be crazy for a few days.
Our bosses were cool and gave us all time and a half for working thanksgiving day AND brought us in a t-day spread. A whole turkey, taters, veggies, stuffing, pies, and beer for when we clocked out. Dylan went to Clara's and had a wild nighttime adventure jumping into Lake Washington (which i'm thinking about doing for new years/xmas as a polar bear club challenge). I went to my co-worker's place and she had a SUUUUUUPER delicious spread she had been working on all day. It was amazing and I'm jealous I didn't get to cook all day cause that was my favorite part of thanksgiving. I'm thinking for xmas I'll get all the orphans and transplants together and have xmas here and i'll make a ham or something.
**Something I've come to realize in the past few days with all this holiday talk**
Seattle, as with most major cities, has a draw of people from all over. Folks not happy in their small towns will flock to the big city to live. So much so that I have only met two people who are originally from Seattle or nearby areas. Just about everyone is an immigrant here and I think that is where the Seattle 'friendly-ness' comes from. Everyone understands what it's like to be the new kid in town and sympathizes. This leads me to think the holidays will be pretty cool and we won't be the only orphans. Even if I have to work on xmas.
Black Friday is looking up. Woke up and having a mug of irish coffee. Got the day off with dylan and we went to look for clara's wallet which she lost some where on their late night adventure. We found a yellow jacket climbing up our couch (he's been been living in our couch?! and he WASN'T PAYING US RENT?!), and set him free.
We got bottles full of rain and whiskey and it's only 1:19...
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