Well, that's almost that. This is my last post as a resident of Seattle. Though I'm sure I'll not bother changing addresses because a. I won't have one and b. I generally forget about things like that. It's no one's damn business anyway!
I'm about to shut down the computer and drive it over to the storage unit. We have rehearsal today with the sub trumpet player for the Sextet show tomorrow. That'll be from 2:30-3:30pm, then I'll have to try to make one last stop to drop off my amp. If I don't make it I'll just leave it on Robby's bed!
Well...I promise to at least write once or twice while I'm in the ocean this time. Provided nothing happens like last time...the stranded on a desert island and all that!
Love ya Seattle...see ya in a while.
Friday, July 18, 2008
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Mike and Kim's Wedding: The short story adventure series complete with illustrations
Preface
Sunday, 6:30am…the alarm goes off. Damn, this is early. Roll out of bed, crawl into the shower…sleep for just a few minutes more. Luckily my hand turned on the cold water to wake me up from some pleasant dream that I’d have been way to happy to keep having right there in the cool and moist embrace of my cast iron bath tub. Go! Shower, dress, chug some coffee. Meet up with Nasty Nate at 7:45 to head to the U District Budget car rental to pick up the Mercury “El hugeness” for the ride out to PT today. 9:45am. Everyone in and we’re on the road! I’m not driving…I’m riding bitch in the back seat. It’s cool. I’m very little. And…off to in and out of sleep for the ride down. No, I’m listening and I hear all of the stories and conversations on the way down…it’s just that my eye lids are too heavy to hold up right now…it’s pretty warm in here and after 2 hours my ass starts to hurt a bit…but we’re almost there!
Mike and Kim got married on Sunday July 12, 2008 at this beautiful park in Port Townsend. It was a perfect day neither too hold nor too cold. The sun was shining and the friends and family were gathered…
There were “games”. We were told this in advance; however, none of us were quite prepared for the “hit the orange with the potato in the panty hose tied around your waist hanging between your legs” race that took place.
Nasty Nate rocked it out during the first few heats…his hand gently gripping his panty hose, swing that potato with dead on accuracy shooting off like a rocket across the park. He was beaten out later by Mike Catts who went on the win the series with an around the tree and under the truck shot that sent the crowd flying off their park benches. In a later interview Nasty claimed that the reason he fell to Catts was because his orange fell to pieces after his first few rounds of whacking…
Awww… aren’t they a cute couple? Here is the big announcement for the serving of the personal mini wedding cakes. Of course these ended up in each of their face a few moments after this photo was taken. It kind of gave me flash backs to cake fights in the crew bar…or maybe flash forwards since I’m headed back to the war of left-over-flying-food in just a few days!
Mike announced that it was almost time to do the “wedding thing”. They all went off to change and I headed to the place to get out the guitar and get ready. We all gathered on the gazebo and did the thing. Oscar’s speech was great. There were a bunch of other words thrown about from friends and family, the kissed and we all went “Awww!” Then we went back to hanging out in the park.
After a while we cleaned and packed things up and all headed into town to meet for drinks at the local brewery. I ended up riding home with Mike Dodge to keep him company, never getting to cash in my “bitch ticket” that I had earned on the way down in the rental. But that’s okay. Mike and I had a good hang drinking some coffee at the ferry terminal, chatting and listening to good music on the way home. It was a great day for sure!
Congratulations Mike and Kim!!! We love you!!!
Epilogue
The next morning the alarm goes off at 6:30am… Damn, this is early. Roll out of bed, crawl into the shower…sleep for just a few minutes more. Luckily my hand turned on the cold water to wake me up from some pleasant dream that I’d have been way to happy to keep having right there in the cool and moist embrace of my cast iron bath tub. Go! Shower, dress, chug some coffee. Meet up with Nasty Nate at 7:45am to return the Mercury “El hugeness” to the U District Budget Rental place. The day a head…the mission completed.
Sunday, 6:30am…the alarm goes off. Damn, this is early. Roll out of bed, crawl into the shower…sleep for just a few minutes more. Luckily my hand turned on the cold water to wake me up from some pleasant dream that I’d have been way to happy to keep having right there in the cool and moist embrace of my cast iron bath tub. Go! Shower, dress, chug some coffee. Meet up with Nasty Nate at 7:45 to head to the U District Budget car rental to pick up the Mercury “El hugeness” for the ride out to PT today. 9:45am. Everyone in and we’re on the road! I’m not driving…I’m riding bitch in the back seat. It’s cool. I’m very little. And…off to in and out of sleep for the ride down. No, I’m listening and I hear all of the stories and conversations on the way down…it’s just that my eye lids are too heavy to hold up right now…it’s pretty warm in here and after 2 hours my ass starts to hurt a bit…but we’re almost there!
Mike and Kim got married on Sunday July 12, 2008 at this beautiful park in Port Townsend. It was a perfect day neither too hold nor too cold. The sun was shining and the friends and family were gathered…
There were “games”. We were told this in advance; however, none of us were quite prepared for the “hit the orange with the potato in the panty hose tied around your waist hanging between your legs” race that took place.
Nasty Nate rocked it out during the first few heats…his hand gently gripping his panty hose, swing that potato with dead on accuracy shooting off like a rocket across the park. He was beaten out later by Mike Catts who went on the win the series with an around the tree and under the truck shot that sent the crowd flying off their park benches. In a later interview Nasty claimed that the reason he fell to Catts was because his orange fell to pieces after his first few rounds of whacking…
Awww… aren’t they a cute couple? Here is the big announcement for the serving of the personal mini wedding cakes. Of course these ended up in each of their face a few moments after this photo was taken. It kind of gave me flash backs to cake fights in the crew bar…or maybe flash forwards since I’m headed back to the war of left-over-flying-food in just a few days!
Mike announced that it was almost time to do the “wedding thing”. They all went off to change and I headed to the place to get out the guitar and get ready. We all gathered on the gazebo and did the thing. Oscar’s speech was great. There were a bunch of other words thrown about from friends and family, the kissed and we all went “Awww!” Then we went back to hanging out in the park.
After a while we cleaned and packed things up and all headed into town to meet for drinks at the local brewery. I ended up riding home with Mike Dodge to keep him company, never getting to cash in my “bitch ticket” that I had earned on the way down in the rental. But that’s okay. Mike and I had a good hang drinking some coffee at the ferry terminal, chatting and listening to good music on the way home. It was a great day for sure!
Congratulations Mike and Kim!!! We love you!!!
Epilogue
The next morning the alarm goes off at 6:30am… Damn, this is early. Roll out of bed, crawl into the shower…sleep for just a few minutes more. Luckily my hand turned on the cold water to wake me up from some pleasant dream that I’d have been way to happy to keep having right there in the cool and moist embrace of my cast iron bath tub. Go! Shower, dress, chug some coffee. Meet up with Nasty Nate at 7:45am to return the Mercury “El hugeness” to the U District Budget Rental place. The day a head…the mission completed.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Notable
Goddamn! There have been several things/events/happenings that I feel are noteworthy enough to have an entire blog entry dedicated to their own occurrence. However, the most noteworthy thing of the moment is that I perhaps did not eat enough mushrooms tonight. But, who can tell...it may still prove itself to be the perfect amount.
Just to get it down...I may or may not come back to these things individually in the future...
1. Apparently nothing was written about the Portland/Camping trip...well that was awesome. There are a bunch of pictures on my facebook page!
2. I served on Jury Duty for 2 days. Sat through a trial and found an old woman guilty of possession of crack cocaine. Not fun, but an interesting learning experience.
3. The Sextet played at Egan's on Saturday. It was fun. There were a lot of people there for Egan's. The whole band is great. Playing with Beth and Jim is amazing and I learn a lot!
4. Sunday afternoon some motherfucker stole my stereo, or rather Leng's stereo out of my, or rather Leng's car in my fucking drive way while Rob and I were in the house with the front door open and neighbor's gardening and walking about! This made me very angry and I've run out of the house at 3am with a bat in hand several times since...and yes...I think I'd use it. Fuck people!...has been my attitude since. Fuck them and the lack of community in which we live...so no...I don't have a fucking cigarette. Get your fucking lazy ass motivated to make your own way on your own shit or fucking die doing the world a favor as you do! This is just a tease. This I'm sure will be it's own thing followed by a piece on peace or some shit...because that's the way it all goes in my head from day to day! Or rather from hour to hour!
5. Mike and Kim got married in Port Townsend yesterday. It was a beautiful day and a beautiful wedding for two of the most beautiful people I know! They are an amazing couple! I only know Kim through Mike but she always seems supportive and sweet and is always out supporting his gigs and they always seem happy when they're in the same room together and it's great. Then there's Mike! Well he's just one of the biggest musical influences in my life...and all there is to that. That will be some romance piece later!
6. Today I moved a bunch of shit into the storage unit and set up my monthly pay plan. I leave in 4 days. I ate mushrooms but not enough, so it seems. I may just go to sleep in a minute.
Finish the beer and one last smoke. I like land. I like the ocean. I love Music.
Just to get it down...I may or may not come back to these things individually in the future...
1. Apparently nothing was written about the Portland/Camping trip...well that was awesome. There are a bunch of pictures on my facebook page!
2. I served on Jury Duty for 2 days. Sat through a trial and found an old woman guilty of possession of crack cocaine. Not fun, but an interesting learning experience.
3. The Sextet played at Egan's on Saturday. It was fun. There were a lot of people there for Egan's. The whole band is great. Playing with Beth and Jim is amazing and I learn a lot!
4. Sunday afternoon some motherfucker stole my stereo, or rather Leng's stereo out of my, or rather Leng's car in my fucking drive way while Rob and I were in the house with the front door open and neighbor's gardening and walking about! This made me very angry and I've run out of the house at 3am with a bat in hand several times since...and yes...I think I'd use it. Fuck people!...has been my attitude since. Fuck them and the lack of community in which we live...so no...I don't have a fucking cigarette. Get your fucking lazy ass motivated to make your own way on your own shit or fucking die doing the world a favor as you do! This is just a tease. This I'm sure will be it's own thing followed by a piece on peace or some shit...because that's the way it all goes in my head from day to day! Or rather from hour to hour!
5. Mike and Kim got married in Port Townsend yesterday. It was a beautiful day and a beautiful wedding for two of the most beautiful people I know! They are an amazing couple! I only know Kim through Mike but she always seems supportive and sweet and is always out supporting his gigs and they always seem happy when they're in the same room together and it's great. Then there's Mike! Well he's just one of the biggest musical influences in my life...and all there is to that. That will be some romance piece later!
6. Today I moved a bunch of shit into the storage unit and set up my monthly pay plan. I leave in 4 days. I ate mushrooms but not enough, so it seems. I may just go to sleep in a minute.
Finish the beer and one last smoke. I like land. I like the ocean. I love Music.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Progress
All right! I just moved a bunch of stuff into the storage unit. As I was loading up the cart in the parking lot, reaching into my car for the last box, I turned to see the cart, full of all of my stuff rolling down the hill towards 15th avenue and all of it's crazy traffic! I ran, box in hand, and saved it only a few feet from the street! A bit of running never hurt anyone.
I bought a new suitcase at Fred Meyer. Mike had given me one but it's a bit too big...I could fit in it, but I'd rather have a seat on the plane. This one is sweet and it was 40% off! Oh yeah!
Tomorrow morning I'm taking the train to Portland...(can't believe in four years of living here I still haven't been). I'll have most of the day to wander around by myself, and then I'm meeting up with Jen's sister and we're headed to Long Beach(?) to the family campsite right near the ocean for the weekend. Crazy fireworks and bears! Yes bears, though I'm sure there will also be some beers. Rumor has it the Haeners may even make an appearance! Stay tuned for photos and random ramblings from the Adventures of Me
I bought a new suitcase at Fred Meyer. Mike had given me one but it's a bit too big...I could fit in it, but I'd rather have a seat on the plane. This one is sweet and it was 40% off! Oh yeah!
Tomorrow morning I'm taking the train to Portland...(can't believe in four years of living here I still haven't been). I'll have most of the day to wander around by myself, and then I'm meeting up with Jen's sister and we're headed to Long Beach(?) to the family campsite right near the ocean for the weekend. Crazy fireworks and bears! Yes bears, though I'm sure there will also be some beers. Rumor has it the Haeners may even make an appearance! Stay tuned for photos and random ramblings from the Adventures of Me
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