memories / of rain
I really should have worked on the calendars last night, but instead, after helping Shobhit make delicious dosas and potatoes for dinner, I spent pretty much the entire evening watching season 9 episodes of Cheers on Netflix. Honestly, that's about all there is to tell about last night.
I also finally finished captioning all the photos from this year's Halloween photo album on Flickr this morning. I got into a surprisingly lengthy IM conversation on Skype Messenger with Karen W because I needed names of a few newer employees in my photos who I don't really know but I wanted to tag the photos with their names correctly. I shared the link of all my "Halloween at PCC" albums, and she had some questions about the old office space as well as our old CEO, Tracy. That collection shows Halloween at PCC only 2004-2010 and then 2017-2019, because every year 2011-2016 I spent the entire day either in Olympia or with Shobhit in West Hollywood. Karen noted that she did not realize I had been with PCC that long, and "that long" based on the photo albums only goes back 15 years; I noted that I actually started here in 2002. It's pretty remarkable to me that, in only three more years, I will have worked for PCC for 20 years.
Anyway then I shit ton of emails came in about this and that and now I have a whole bunch of shit I have to get done at work today. Time to get some real work done!
Well, except I guess I can tell you briefly that I just got back from lunch with Karen down at Six-Seven Restaurant at the Edgewater Hotel. It was lunch-with-Karen business as usual, really, but for a guy we had never seen before at first bringing us the wrong, split sandwich. There was no way we'd actually keep the wrong order brought to us, as it had bacon on it. This would have been why we typically order the veggie gyro. They took that back and brought us the gyro within minutes.
The guy who took our order and served mostly as our waiter has been working there for some time, though. So long, in fact, that when he came to take my empty plate he addressed me by name: "Can I take that for you, Matthew?" This is, of course, what happens with regulars. It was still kind of startling, as it doesn't happen anywhere else.
I am so ready for it to rain again. We're a full month into November and we have yet to have even an ounce of precipitation this month. According to KOMO, normal by this time in November is cumulative 1.19". We're also more than two inches below our year-to-date normal. This is why I get so annoyed when people act like it's so great when we get sunshiny weather in the fall. This is not fucking normal. It's now how it's supposed to be!
The National Weather Service forecast shows a 20% chance of rain this weekend. I'm not banking on that. One in five odds? We're going to remain dry for the foreseeable future, and that is not a good thing.
On the other hand, the view of Elliott Bay and the Olympic Mountains from our table at lunch sure was beautiful.
[posted 1:17 pm]