Good Food and Friends

Saturday night we ignored all the warnings about driving around in Seattle's Blizzard of '08 and went out to celebrate Adrien's 29th birthday at Crush. The food was amazing—finally had the chance to enjoy fois gras as it was meant to be— dinner with friends is always good, and driving a front wheel drive car with no chains in ice and snow made for a very interesting (rallycross anyone?) ride home.

Taking Advantage

Of one of the best Summers, weather wise, that I can remember.

Round 1

We met with Ian of Domestic Architecture today to go over plans for the new space. Things are looking good so far...

QBN Sessions

Adrien, Joe and I will be going to down to LA for QBN Sessions. Newstoday is actually a major contributing factor for how we—Adrien, Joe, Drew, Jason and I—all met four or five years ago. Since then we've all worked together in some form or another and it's always been on projects that I've enjoyed not necessarily because the work itself was fun—although there certainly has been plenty of fun projects—but because I got to work with them.

So we're going to be making a 4 day trip down to LA for the event. Hopefully we'll see something inspiring, and hopefully make some new friendships that are just as fruitfull as our first QBN event.

Bust out the BBQ

Adrien, Eli, Kevin, and Michelle were over after softball practice for a little BBQ last night. We BBQ'd everything but the rice!

My bad photography doesn't do the food justice, cause it was damn good.

Thursday Afternoon

There's something really satisfying about spending a Thursday afternoon with a couple of friends, sucking back brews (see Chris, 4th picture, right cart) and playing golf. My golf game is terrible, but I don't really mind; especially when a friend picks me up in a golf cart after I've sliced the ball into the forest and there's a drink in the cup holder waiting to ease my pain.

House Warming BBQ

This weekend Kevin and I picked up a Weber Spirit 310 on behalf of a bunch of people for Adrien as a house warming gift. The instructions said it would take 30 minutes for one person to assemble, but it took Kevin and I an hour. Apparently he and I combined aren't up to the Weber standard of a person.

Caffe Umbria

Today Joe, Adrien and I went to Occidental Square to have lunch at Caffe Umbria. They have excellent coffee and great panini sandwiches. It's amazing how great a few quality ingredients toasted in bread tastes.





I also got a few toys for myself.