What a great weekend.
I flew into Seattle late thursday night, and after an affordable limousine drive to my pal Sparky's new place, where he lives with none-other then Nate the Great, I found myself with a beer in hand engaged in conversation with the both of them as I unsuccessfully tried to output my computer to Sparky's recently purchased used TV. I eventually gave up after dragging Sparky's computer into the living room and finally deciding that I would be watching Simpson's reruns on my laptop all weekend.
Early the next morning we headed out so Sparky could visit the Post Office, which then lead to us heading down to Pike's Place to get freshly made donuts. It was there that I bought three dozen of the best donuts I had ever tasted. Since I now had Donuts, and a fridge stocked with Buzz Cola at home, I did what anyone would do - watched 10 consecutive hours of the Simpsons while ingesting said objects. I then recieved a phone call and decided some fresh air would do some good, so I walked down to meet Dwight and McMahon at a bar near SafeCo Stadium to await Sparky and Nate getting off of work. A few hours and even more drinks later, and we were all back in Sparky's living room falling asleep to Simpson's episodes with Pizza in our belly's.
Neil arrived that night at around three a.m. I was the only one still awake (by which I mean awakened by Neil's call to my cell phone), so I let him in the building and we preceded to watch a few more episodes until we both passed out.
Then came Saturday - the big day (I know friday was technically the big day, or even Thursday night could be classified as that - but as you can tell from previous sentences, we had to wait for everyone to arrive, plus Sparky and Nate had to work Friday night and Saturday). The day started off with a walk to SafeCo stadium to meet Sparky who had game tickets for all of us. We hung out at the game (I don't even think I watched one play), drank free beer, and ate some deliciously free food, then we made the tiring walk back up the hill to Sparky's place.
It was at this point where we all pretty much napped in a big pile in the living room while the Simpson's reruns played for the few who were awake from time to time. We had tickets for a showing around eight-thirty p.m. and I was growing anxious - but eventually the time came.
The movie was great. I will be posting my detailed review soon (seperate from this story post).
So not only was the weekend, and my life completed that night around ten-thirty p.m., we managed to stumble across a FREE Spoon concert on Capitol Hill while looking for a bar called Cha-Cha's. I didn't get to catch much but it was just the icing on the cake. So after I caught the end of Spoon's performance, we made our way to Cha-Cha's where we all met up, made some new friends, drank more beer, and enjoyed delicious street vendor hot dogs on our way home. And the weekend wasn't even over yet.
Sunday a few of us (Sparky and Nate had to work, and Dwight and McMahon had flights to catch) took the ferry over to Bainbridge Island where we got lunch and hung out before Neil had to take off back to his home. We talked of work, and life, and even read an uneducated Simpsons review from some botard in Arizona who gave it two-stars.
Then that night Sparky and Nate took us out to the main Ivar's (the restaurant where they work inside SafeCo Stadium) out on the Pier. We enjoyed a big dinner with Sparky's monthly food allowance. It was delicious. Then we again made the tiring walk back to Sparky's place while discussing things like Sparky's plans for charity work and all sorts of great things he is doing in Seattle to help out the beloved Mastatal Ranch, as well as plans to help out bigger and better charities and such. It is cool to see him using every resource he can to make a job of necessity into a job of passion and one where he can continue helping others.
That night I tried watching 'Ghost Rider' after everyone was asleep - but I fell asleep about forty five minutes through, and from what I saw it was one of the worst movies I'd ever even tried to watch.
Then early the next morning I got to hang out with Sparky as we walked back to SafeCo field, then to Ivar's on the Pier, then back to his place. Then we walked back towards SafeCo with Nate for lunch and then they were off to work, and I was off to see the Simpson's movie again. Which was still great. Although I missed Neil's boisterous laughter, I did not miss all the annoying people laughing and screaming during on-going jokes, and I even got to catch some stuff I didn't catch in the first viewing.
Then it was back to the airport to await my flight (which was delayed a couple hours), and finally back to California, and back to the good ole world of working...eww.
I want to go see the Simpson's movie.
I flew into Seattle late thursday night, and after an affordable limousine drive to my pal Sparky's new place, where he lives with none-other then Nate the Great, I found myself with a beer in hand engaged in conversation with the both of them as I unsuccessfully tried to output my computer to Sparky's recently purchased used TV. I eventually gave up after dragging Sparky's computer into the living room and finally deciding that I would be watching Simpson's reruns on my laptop all weekend.
Early the next morning we headed out so Sparky could visit the Post Office, which then lead to us heading down to Pike's Place to get freshly made donuts. It was there that I bought three dozen of the best donuts I had ever tasted. Since I now had Donuts, and a fridge stocked with Buzz Cola at home, I did what anyone would do - watched 10 consecutive hours of the Simpsons while ingesting said objects. I then recieved a phone call and decided some fresh air would do some good, so I walked down to meet Dwight and McMahon at a bar near SafeCo Stadium to await Sparky and Nate getting off of work. A few hours and even more drinks later, and we were all back in Sparky's living room falling asleep to Simpson's episodes with Pizza in our belly's.
Neil arrived that night at around three a.m. I was the only one still awake (by which I mean awakened by Neil's call to my cell phone), so I let him in the building and we preceded to watch a few more episodes until we both passed out.
Then came Saturday - the big day (I know friday was technically the big day, or even Thursday night could be classified as that - but as you can tell from previous sentences, we had to wait for everyone to arrive, plus Sparky and Nate had to work Friday night and Saturday). The day started off with a walk to SafeCo stadium to meet Sparky who had game tickets for all of us. We hung out at the game (I don't even think I watched one play), drank free beer, and ate some deliciously free food, then we made the tiring walk back up the hill to Sparky's place.
It was at this point where we all pretty much napped in a big pile in the living room while the Simpson's reruns played for the few who were awake from time to time. We had tickets for a showing around eight-thirty p.m. and I was growing anxious - but eventually the time came.
The movie was great. I will be posting my detailed review soon (seperate from this story post).
So not only was the weekend, and my life completed that night around ten-thirty p.m., we managed to stumble across a FREE Spoon concert on Capitol Hill while looking for a bar called Cha-Cha's. I didn't get to catch much but it was just the icing on the cake. So after I caught the end of Spoon's performance, we made our way to Cha-Cha's where we all met up, made some new friends, drank more beer, and enjoyed delicious street vendor hot dogs on our way home. And the weekend wasn't even over yet.
Sunday a few of us (Sparky and Nate had to work, and Dwight and McMahon had flights to catch) took the ferry over to Bainbridge Island where we got lunch and hung out before Neil had to take off back to his home. We talked of work, and life, and even read an uneducated Simpsons review from some botard in Arizona who gave it two-stars.
Then that night Sparky and Nate took us out to the main Ivar's (the restaurant where they work inside SafeCo Stadium) out on the Pier. We enjoyed a big dinner with Sparky's monthly food allowance. It was delicious. Then we again made the tiring walk back to Sparky's place while discussing things like Sparky's plans for charity work and all sorts of great things he is doing in Seattle to help out the beloved Mastatal Ranch, as well as plans to help out bigger and better charities and such. It is cool to see him using every resource he can to make a job of necessity into a job of passion and one where he can continue helping others.
That night I tried watching 'Ghost Rider' after everyone was asleep - but I fell asleep about forty five minutes through, and from what I saw it was one of the worst movies I'd ever even tried to watch.
Then early the next morning I got to hang out with Sparky as we walked back to SafeCo field, then to Ivar's on the Pier, then back to his place. Then we walked back towards SafeCo with Nate for lunch and then they were off to work, and I was off to see the Simpson's movie again. Which was still great. Although I missed Neil's boisterous laughter, I did not miss all the annoying people laughing and screaming during on-going jokes, and I even got to catch some stuff I didn't catch in the first viewing.
Then it was back to the airport to await my flight (which was delayed a couple hours), and finally back to California, and back to the good ole world of working...eww.
I want to go see the Simpson's movie.
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