Thoughts on trip to Seattle.

Had a great time visiting Seattle and Yakima for the holidays.

Seattle was awesome, you don't really get to enjoy and appreciate your hometown until you return after being gone for a while. I might even move back there someday, I think it's just a great town with a lot going on. (My ideal goal is to get filthy stinking rich and rent/own housing in many different cities so I can travel around and always have a place to stay, also my friends can have somewhere to crash while I'm out of town).
I was happy to see old friends doing worthwhile things with their lives and took the opportunity to strengthen my social network with entrepreneurial schemes for the future in mind. I talked to my old high school buddy Jon over delicious Italian food about his modular synthesizer business, Native American sovereignty issues, and ideas for starting a media company and housing co-ops. My buddy Thomas Hays has been quite the productive troublemaker since we last saw each other. He's now working on a retrospective book about his wartime postering campaign that got him in the newspapers in Seattle. Brooke works at Seattle Children's Theater and I got to see their impressively massive set-building room and all-around great facilities and posters for what looked like some awesome shows. Some other friends have a good scene going in Yakima with kids running around and music production whatnot.


Other misc: I learned about Artist Eye Portfolio Studio, which helps artist's put together a slick presentation of their work. I took lots of pictures of visually stimulating architecture and graffiti, and feel like some kind of boneheaded techo-idiot for not yet figuring out how to download them from my phone to a hard drive. (Otherwise I'd post for all to see. Maybe an intrepid reader has experience with these matters and can point me in the right direction?) I decided never to take the Greyhound bus ever again, ever. And I wouldn't recommend that you try it, either. Save a little extra money for Amtrak.