Random Thoughts and Things Left Unsaid – April 2013 Edition

Life was a little too busy in April, and I have a bunch of half-finished blog posts to show for it. Rather than try to finish them, here were my thoughts for the month, in no particular order.

  • Thanks to Art Thiel of SportsPress Northwest for letting me write about my trip to the Colorado Rapids v Sounders game on 4/20. I didn’t think it was a very good article on my part so I didn’t promote it. But for any writer, being published is being published. So thanks, Art.
  • Seriously – the construction on Aurora makes it impossible to get to work from Wallingford to Queen Anne. Just hopeless.
  • I have a new irrational addiction to broccoli. Here are two awesome recipes that are super easy to make. Parmesan Roasted Broccoli and Brilliant Sauteed Broccoli.
  • Poor Mariners. Man. What a shame. Is there any answer here?
  • The fact that the Sounders have struggled mightily in the first two months of the season, and I still have no doubt that they’ll make the playoffs, shows there’s something wrong with the length of the MLS schedule.
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    Coors Field, Denver

  • Denver is a great city. For that matter so is Boulder.
  • I want to thank Brett Greene from Fresh Consulting for hooking me up with some great meetings I was in Boulder. Check out these companies did you get a chance: Metzger and Associates, Room 214, Sendgrid. Also check out check out Galvanize
  • Did I mentioned the traffic yet? The one good thing is that a combination Siri and Aurora Bridge traffic gives me a lot of chance to write down – I mean talk down – blog posts.
  • It was mentioned to me that our softball team is now in its 20th year of competition, in which I played 18 of those years. That has to be some sort of record for Seattle amateur sports.
  • Right now I’m way past a month of no caffeine. All seems be going well, except for my new addiction to hot chocolate, which I fear is way more fattening than coffee.
  • And the Beat the Bridge Run is a few weeks. I might give it another shot this year despite being desperately out of shape.  This could be the year my winning streak of getting across in time ends.
  • If there is a logic to how the parking works in lower Queen Anne, I haven’t been able to figure it out. Block by Block it changes – Four hour meters, two hour meters, two hours free, one hours free, unlimited free, carpool, and anything else. It makes no sense.
  • I’m an uncle again.  How about that.  Welcome to the world, Lyla Margaret Kline who was born May 1.
  • And the cycle of life continues, as today marks the day that my mom passed away 13 years ago.  Hard to imagine it was that long ago.
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