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Brief update today. It's been very rainy the past few days, which was what prompted Laney and me to postone our outdoor Happy Hour on the new swings at the Park Promenade of the Seattle Waterfront from yesterday to Wednesday. But! Shobhit came and met me at work at 4:30, and we walked most of the way home together—we went down the waterfront to nearly as far as Colman Dock (where the Washington State Ferries dock) to confirm whether the swings are not still
fenced off. And, unfortunately: they are.
So, we have to swap what had been planned as our weekday Happy Hour in February with the one we had planned in March: now, on Wednesday, we'll go to Kedai Makan—the restaurant right across the street from our condo, where Shobhit and I had Valentine's Day dinner last year. It's kind of pricy but the food was amazing, and with Laney we'll go for Happy Hour anyway. Their Happy Hour ends at 5:00 so I'll need to leave work early to meet her there by 4:30 but that's fine.
The kind of funny thing is, now we'll be indoors and the weather no longer matters. Laney already had a coffee date with another friend yesterday anyway so she still preferred the idea of doing our Happy Hour on another day.
Also: it was wet, but there was no rain while Shobhit and I walked down the waterfront yesterday. I found myself thinking: Laney and I could have done an outdoor Happy Hour! But, not really. It was wet, as I said, plus it did start raining again before we actually got home.
Shobhit had a Zoom call to attend between 6:00 and 7:00, so to save time, instead of walking home from the detour to Colman Dock, we caught the RapidRide G bus up Madison. We got off across the street from Trader Joe's, because Shobhit wanted to go in and get a few fruits and vegetables.
We went home and made sandwiches for dinner while I also made us chai. We lightly toasted the bread in the cast iron skillet. Holy fuck did this make for a delicious sandwich. Yummy!
I dinked around on my computer in the bedroom, listening to Heart, while Shobhit was on the call. Then we watched the two episodes of
As Time Goes By that had aired on PBS Saturday Night but we had not yet gotten to, and then I finally re-upped my Apple TV subscription so we could start on season 2 of
Severance, of which was also watched two episodes. Later, and within the next month, we can also catch up on
Silo,
Bad Sisters,
Shrinking, and
Disclosure.
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The weather really kind of whipped up after we got home last night. There were wind gusts so heavy that it really rammed rainfall against our windows and even made me slightly nervous. And that shit was still going on this morning, prompting me to forego walking the waterfront from downtown to work this morning (as I did yesterday as well, but that time it was only to save time as I barely missed my 6:44 bus from our building) and catch a connecting bus up 3rd Avenue to Denny Way and 1st Ave N. Still: just waiting for the second bus, my pants got quite wet and they remain damp even as I write this; on the whopping two blocks I walked from the second bus stop to the building I cut through to take the skybridge to my own building, wind gusts turned my umbrella inside out
twice. Don't even get me started on how much this all fucked up my hair!
What a pain in the ass. At least the umbrella was salvageable; it had easy little wooden sockets to stick the ends of the wires back into.
We're getting a lot of rain lately, which ecologically speaking is a relief after one of the driest Januarys we've ever had. I just checked, and sice January 1 we've gotten 4.89" and nomal is 9.02", so year to date we're barely more than half where we should be. So far this month the amount is 2.97" and normal by this point is 3.24". We really need to be getting more rain than this. Just not when Laney and I have an outdoor Happy Hour!
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[posted 12:35pm]
