Finn is 4, and a very, very good boy who was staying at the same hotel as me in Seattle. He decided not to rent out one of the hotel’s loaner guitars, though… apparently he’s more of a vocalist. (Yes, the Edgewater Hotel provides loaner guitars for patrons. And yes, I borrowed one. Because why not?)
I ran into these three in Seattle (had to go look it up: ‘if it was Tuesday this must be Seattle’) and was like, “Man, you are a better man than I am if you can handle TWO ridgebacks!”
I drove from Albany to Portland a couple weeks ago (that’s Albany, Oregon to Portland, Oregon, I didn’t jog over to the East Coast) and while I was heading up I stopped off at Silver Falls State Park. Most of the trails with waterfalls were closed due to landslides and that sort of thing, and I decided not to do the back-country trails, but there was a nice two-mile loop with two big waterfalls and several smaller ones that was well worth the trip. The two big falls have paths that go behind them, which were icy and muddy and icky and great fun, as long as you had big stompy backpacking boots like mine. One of the pictures below was taken outward through the falls, even!
Sigh. Software. Everything used to be so much quicker and easier to do in WordPress, as long as what you wanted to do was what 95% of people wanted to do. I counted the clicks back about ten years ago when they shifted from the regular editor to the block-based one, and posting these pictures would have required creating the article, then adding the text, then clicking ‘insert images’, then dragging the images to upload them, then shift-clicking to select all the images, and then selecting ‘insert’ to insert them all. Instead, everything before the image stuff takes more work, and once you get to the images, it now takes seven clicks per image. Progress is amazing, isn’t it?
Not having the best day: went and got my car this morning and discovered that someone had smashed a window in order to steal… my… travel mug. Seriously, that’s the only thing that was missing. Certainly there was nothing valuable visible. So now I get to pay a $1000 deductible on my insurance so that someone else can have a travel mug.
Amusingly, that $1000 is about what I would have spent on parking at my hotel in Seattle (5 days at $80 a day) plus Vancouver (14 days at $40 a day) if I’d elected to not use the cut rate parking. So the only really frustrating part is that I’m probably not going to have my car for most of the time I’m in Vancouver. Oh well. You can get to a lot on foot and by bus, and I’ll be working a good chunk of the time too. Maybe I’ll rent a car for a couple of days if it’s not going to be done by a week from today.
Anyway! Seattle wasn’t all bummer by any means. For one thing, I met Wookiee, a seven-year-old Westie with a lot of personality, and a lot of happy as well! Wookiee’s mom is currently prepping for an interview with a company that might be moving her (and her husband, and Wookie!) down to San Francisco, so Wookiee might be a genuine DoSF in not too long. If so, hopefully I run into him there! (His dad told me he had an instagram account, but the name he told me does not seem to be correct, and all of my google searches were in vain, so hopefully he, his wife, or Wookiee himself stumbles across this post and sets me straight!)
I ran into Maggie Beans (2) yesterday on my ambles through Seattle. She wasn’t entirely happy with posing, because she was much more interested in leaning against my leg and absorbing scratches, pets, and hugs.
I’m taking pictures of pups on my travels, so we’re going to have a fair number of honorary Dogs of San Francisco for a while. Bodhi (2) is one such, a gorgeous pup!
Phoebe Rae is another pup that I ran into on my trip back from Indiana to San Francisco, and when I found out that she was going to be turning two in exactly a month, I committed to posting an adorable picture or two. Fortunately, that wasn’t hard to manage. Happy birthday, pupper!
Sunny (female, 6) is the store kitty at Sniffany’s, a pet store in downtown Albany, Oregon (where I spent a chunk of last week). She is a giant floof, who was alas not feeling great so we let her sleep instead of spoiling her rotten.
I found Disco in a local favorite cheese shop, where she was being very, very good and hoping for one of the treats they keep behind the counter.
Keanu is just a little husky! He’s also pretty skinny, which is a pretty funny combo.
