Dave in Seattle 2: Electric Boogaloo

[brian]

I'm here now. Got in last night. The two times I visited Seattle before, both this spring, it was bright and sunny. Beautiful.

Now that I'm committed and moved, I show up in August and it's 65 degrees and raining. Welcome!

I'm about to head out to pick up my Indian pizza. Butter chicken pizza. Never heard of such a thing before, but it sounds pretty awesome.

Buy any weed yet?

[DaveInSeattle]

I'm here now. Got in last night. The two times I visited Seattle before, both this spring, it was bright and sunny. Beautiful.

Now that I'm committed and moved, I show up in August and it's 65 degrees and raining. Welcome!

I'm about to head out to pick up my Indian pizza. Butter chicken pizza. Never heard of such a thing before, but it sounds pretty awesome.

Yeah, I was thinking that...the weekend you move here we have epic wind/rain storms and power outages! Never fails...

How was the pizza? Where did you get it from?

[Giff]

I'm here now. Got in last night. The two times I visited Seattle before, both this spring, it was bright and sunny. Beautiful.

Now that I'm committed and moved, I show up in August and it's 65 degrees and raining. Welcome!

I'm about to head out to pick up my Indian pizza. Butter chicken pizza. Never heard of such a thing before, but it sounds pretty awesome.

Buy any weed yet?

I'm about to head out to pick up my Indian pizza. Butter chicken pizza

If I didn't know who Shirley was, I'd guess yes.

[Shirley]

No weed yet, unfortunately.

The butter chicken pizza was good, but honestly not as good as a regular butter chicken meal with rice and naan. Still, worth trying.

First day in the office today! Assimilation has begun.

[mister d]

Did you wear a flannel over a flannel over a flannel to fit in?

[Shirley]

Did you wear a flannel over a flannel over a flannel to fit in?

I think that's more in Seattle proper. Over here on the east side, if I really wanted to fit in, I'd be Indian.

[DaveInSeattle]

Did you wear a flannel over a flannel over a flannel to fit in?

No no no...these days its Patagonia over North Face over flannel....

[DaveInSeattle]

I'm here now. Got in last night. The two times I visited Seattle before, both this spring, it was bright and sunny. Beautiful.

Now that I'm committed and moved, I show up in August and it's 65 degrees and raining. Welcome!

I'm about to head out to pick up my Indian pizza. Butter chicken pizza. Never heard of such a thing before, but it sounds pretty awesome.

Buy any weed yet?

Buy? They give you a bag when you get off the plane now.

[brian]

I'm here now. Got in last night. The two times I visited Seattle before, both this spring, it was bright and sunny. Beautiful.

Now that I'm committed and moved, I show up in August and it's 65 degrees and raining. Welcome!

I'm about to head out to pick up my Indian pizza. Butter chicken pizza. Never heard of such a thing before, but it sounds pretty awesome.

Buy any weed yet?

Buy? They give you a bag when you get off the plane now.

I thought maybe you could get it with pizza. Now there's a synergy just waiting to happen.

[DaveInSeattle]

I'm here now. Got in last night. The two times I visited Seattle before, both this spring, it was bright and sunny. Beautiful.

Now that I'm committed and moved, I show up in August and it's 65 degrees and raining. Welcome!

I'm about to head out to pick up my Indian pizza. Butter chicken pizza. Never heard of such a thing before, but it sounds pretty awesome.

Buy any weed yet?

Buy? They give you a bag when you get off the plane now.

I thought maybe you could get it with pizza. Now there's a synergy just waiting to happen.

Amazon is now doing Alcohol deliveries in the area. Maybe they should expand the inventory.

[brian]

I suspect one day that'll probably happen. Not anytime soon mind you, but once it's legal just about everywhere (15-20 years?).

[rass]

My wife is likely going on a business trip to Seattle In October. I would love to go, but I don't think I can swing it logistically with days off remaining from work, and finding someone to get the kids to/from school. Sort of bummed.

[sancarlos]

My wife is likely going on a business trip to Seattle In October. I would love to go, but I don't think I can swing it logistically with days off remaining from work, and finding someone to get the kids to/from school. Sort of bummed.

So, you're checking to see who in the Swamp will agree to accompany her?

[brian]

My wife is likely going on a business trip to Seattle In October. I would love to go, but I don't think I can swing it logistically with days off remaining from work, and finding someone to get the kids to/from school. Sort of bummed.

So, you're checking to see who in the Swamp will agree to accompany her?

Shirley would be most logical. Or DiS if she's into the threesome thing.

[Shirley]

My wife is likely going on a business trip to Seattle In October. I would love to go, but I don't think I can swing it logistically with days off remaining from work, and finding someone to get the kids to/from school. Sort of bummed.

So, you're checking to see who in the Swamp will agree to accompany her?

Shirley would be most logical. Or DiS if she's into the threesome thing.

Rules

[DaveInSeattle]

My wife is likely going on a business trip to Seattle In October. I would love to go, but I don't think I can swing it logistically with days off remaining from work, and finding someone to get the kids to/from school. Sort of bummed.

So, you're checking to see who in the Swamp will agree to accompany her?

Shirley would be most logical. Or DiS if she's into the threesome thing.

As Shirley can report, my post-divorce craziness days are long behind me. I'm quite happily settled into domestic bliss-dom...

[cerrano]

My wife is likely going on a business trip to Seattle In October. I would love to go, but I don't think I can swing it logistically with days off remaining from work, and finding someone to get the kids to/from school. Sort of bummed.

So, you're checking to see who in the Swamp will agree to accompany her?

Shirley would be most logical. Or DiS if she's into the threesome thing.

Rules

eta: couldn't find the long-jump pic.

[Shirley]

I'd do it.

[howard]

I'd do it.

[rass]

Yo DiS.

My wife is headed out there this week. She's at the Westin, and will maybe have an evening when she'll have time to explore that general area. Pike Place Market isn't too far away. Worth it? Can she (should she?) walk there? Some place else she should check out? I guess top of her food list would be ice cream, coffee, Mexican, in some order. I'll hang up and listen. Thanks man.

[mister d]

Yo DiS.

My wife is headed out there this week. She's at the Westin, and will maybe have an evening when s...ex... is... Worth it... I guess top of her ... list would be ... cream...of... Mexican ...d. I'll hang up and listen. Thanks man.

[rass]

Thanks!

I finally joined FB last week (short story, wanted to keep in tough with a couple of first cousins) and I found the Swamp group and learned there is at least one other Swamper named Dave/id I didn't know about. So "mister d" is even lower on the list of quality D's than previously thought!

[DaveInSeattle]

Yo DiS.

My wife is headed out there this week. She's at the Westin, and will maybe have an evening when she'll have time to explore that general area. Pike Place Market isn't too far away. Worth it? Can she (should she?) walk there? Some place else she should check out? I guess top of her food list would be ice cream, coffee, Mexican, in some order. I'll hang up and listen. Thanks man.

Pike Place is absolutely worth it!

Yes, she'll be able to walk there.

The area around the space needle (seattle center) is pretty cool. Will she have a car? The Ballard area is great, but she'll need a car (or Uber/taxi) to get there from the Westin. The Fremont area is cool as well.

Ice Cream: Molly Moon (in Wallingford or University Village shopping area). Full Tilt (in Ballard).
Coffee: Anywhere but Starbucks (Fuck Howard Schulz!). Caffe Vita. Cafe Diva.
Mexican: Not a great town for Mexican...but there's a great place called Oaxaca in Ballard. Some good non-restaurants closer to the Westin: Matt's in the Market, Le Pichet, Virginian Inn, Place Pigalle. If she ventures out further, in Fremont: Whale Wins, Manolin, Revel, Le Petit Cochon. In Ballard: Bastille, Walrus and the Carpenter, Staple and Fancy, Ballard Annex. Or Pioneer Square: Damn The Weather.

[mister d]

I'd love to go to Walrus & the Carpenter or any of Erickson's places. And a friend who loves sandwiches (and almost entered the culinary) has Batali's family's place as his #1. Forgetting the name.

[DSafetyGuy]

Alibi Room is listed as a ten-minute walk from the Westin and I'll vouch for it, which means nothing other than it is about a ten-minute walk from the Westin.

[rass]

Thanks guys.

[DaveInSeattle]

I'd love to go to Walrus & the Carpenter or any of Erickson's places. And a friend who loves sandwiches (and almost entered the culinary) has Batali's family's place as his #1. Forgetting the name.

Both Walrus&TheCarpenter and The Whale Wins are amazing places (Both Erickson run). And Manolin is just up the street from Whale Wins and its run by former Erickson cooks.

The Batali place is Salumi (http://www.salumicuredmeats.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) and its really freaking good. But its only open on Monday from 11-130 for takeout only, and Tues-Friday from 11-330pm. And there's a long line usually.

[DaveInSeattle]

Alibi Room is listed as a ten-minute walk from the Westin and I'll vouch for it, which means nothing other than it is about a ten-minute walk from the Westin.

Alibi Room is a pretty cool place (right across from the infamous Gum Wall). Used to be owned by a guy that I sail with.

[rass]

"An immersive, reported science fiction saga about surviving the coming mega-quake."

This time told from a Portland perspective instead of Seattle...

[Shirley]

UPDATE!

Well, we've change our minds. My family is not going to be moving out to this Northwest paradise after all. It turned out to be just too big of a deal with too many risks - wife's career, kids' school, housing, etc. Microsoft is cool with it. Sometime this summer, I'm going to flip my living ratio around. Instead of one week a month back in NC, I'll be primarily in NC and will come out here (I'm in Bellevue right now) one week a month.

It likely means I won't be succeeding Satya as the next CEO, but I think I'm cool with that.

[sancarlos]

Good for you, Dave. I'm glad it worked out for you.

On my own job search, I've had a couple good opportunities come up that would require me to be out of town more often than not. I struggle with that, because my daughter is just finishing her sophomore year, and I'm not moving her at this point in her life.

[DaveInSeattle]

UPDATE!

Well, we've change our minds. My family is not going to be moving out to this Northwest paradise after all. It turned out to be just too big of a deal with too many risks - wife's career, kids' school, housing, etc. Microsoft is cool with it. Sometime this summer, I'm going to flip my living ratio around. Instead of one week a month back in NC, I'll be primarily in NC and will come out here (I'm in Bellevue right now) one week a month.

It likely means I won't be succeeding Satya as the next CEO, but I think I'm cool with that.

The traffic/rain combo was too much for ya, huh?

That's good for you though...its a big move.

[Shirley]

The traffic/rain combo was too much for ya, huh?

That's good for you though...its a big move.

Honestly, I haven't had a problem with the weather or traffic at all. I guess I work close enough to my apartment that the traffic isn't an issue. And rainy days have more than been offset by the days I've gone skiing. I like it here. It's just that the Triangle is pretty damn nice as well. I'm reminded of that every time my plane lands and it's a beautiful sunny day.

[Nonlinear FC]

Just got back from an epic trip that included the weekend in Seattle (as posted about in another thread.)

We hit Ballard Ave for lunch at a rugby bar called Kangaroos and Kiwis, then went over to a place a few blocks over for the best gelato I've ever had. D'Ambrosia... so good.

[DaveInSeattle]

Just got back from an epic trip that included the weekend in Seattle (as posted about in another thread.)

We hit Ballard Ave for lunch at a rugby bar called Kangaroos and Kiwis, then went over to a place a few blocks over for the best gelato I've ever had. D'Ambrosia... so good.

Kangaroo and Kiwis is a great bar! I've gone there a couple of times since I've been back from Australia to watch Aussie Rules Footy.

You found the best gelato in Seattle (IMO). I love that place.

[DaveInSeattle]

The traffic/rain combo was too much for ya, huh?

That's good for you though...its a big move.

Honestly, I haven't had a problem with the weather or traffic at all. I guess I work close enough to my apartment that the traffic isn't an issue. And rainy days have more than been offset by the days I've gone skiing. I like it here. It's just that the Triangle is pretty damn nice as well. I'm reminded of that every time my plane lands and it's a beautiful sunny day.

When are you moving back? We should try to get together again before you leave town...