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.
- 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.
Coors Field, Denver
Check the Top Right Corner…
