Raincharm’s Weblog

I voted today, Washington Primary.
We now have a top 2 primary, and you don’t have to choose a party – YEAH.
But in our County, there is only one more election where you will be able to stroll up to your neighborhood polling place and cast your vote in person.
Come February 2009 they are going to all mail.
I am not in favor of this move.
I like the voting Event. Especially presidential elections where there is a buzz in the air.
I think voting by mail is ripe for undue persuasion away from the prying eyes of the poll workers.
My two cents.
But 70% of our count already votes by mail (I don’t know if that is how people are registered, or if that is the percentage of those actually voting). We’ll see how it goes.

Monday, Monday, Monday

Not as bad as they can be, but still not what I wanted to accomplish.
Why don’t people understand I want to work on what I want to work on (and NEED to work on).
Now, to be fair, I had some timing (payroll) requirements, customer questions (those pesky customers), and only a few requests. The biggest time taker was a project that has some time frame needs, was easy to do (except for a pesky circular reference – due to hidden columns I forgot about), and more fun than the NEED to work on project. Tomorrow for sure. I may need to make tomorrow a “closed door day” if possible.

Other things today – 5.5 mile walk, and a new pair of shoes (at 5 mile point).
Turkey burgers at 9 PM – yummy.
Olympics to close the day out. (How come we never played beach volleyball?)

The autographed ball (by Kevin Eichhorn) was won during Launch-a-Ball game after the real game.
You try and land your ball in different color hoops for different prizes.
Kevin Eichhorn is the son of former Major Leaguer Mark Eichhorn,  and a third round draft pick of the Diamondbacks.

Oh – the team lost 4-3, and the Osprey were hanging out in their nest.

Rey in his roost

5.5 miles so far, probably another 1.5 a bit later.
Took a walk down the river today, around the mountain instead of the usual walk up to the M
The back side of Mt. Sentinel

Mt Sentinel

 The front side of Mt. Sentinel

Mt. Sentinel with the M

Some other back sides

The Boy

Not The Boy

The Boy

Still Not The Boy

Osprey both win tonight
Baseball Osprey win 12-3
Avian Osprey seen with fish in talons

Anatomy of a Baseball

Game 1 in Missoula at the Osprey.
Rey pointed out they were the only team with a live volunteer mascot.
(This is not counting the Traverse City Beach Bums, which certainly had some BB there, especially the day we attended – so this is for non-human mascots)

We sat in the outfield beyond the fence area, at the base of the Osprey nest area.
The osprey made several appearances, including a few flights over the field during the game.

Osprey nest just beyond the center field fence

Osprey perched on outfield light standard

Perspective

The Osprey team lost 9-3. Did not see if the Osprey caught anything (we spotted two of them)

All of the puzzles worked out with the addition of a bus or two.

A&R played soccer with a 7-0 win. R scored number 6.

5:30 AM is going to come early tomorrow morning

Four potential drivers
Three jobs
Three packers
Two cars
Two Soccer Players
Two vacation days
One Doctor Appointment
One Play
One Walker
One Carpool

It’s a puzzle

C just pulled the morning paper into the house. After a minute or so of perusing he noticed it wasn’t quite what he had been used to seeing in the AM.

Sea-town has two main papers. The PI was AM and the Times was PM. We got the PM Paper based on when we could actually read it. Several years ago the Times changed to AM, so much for our schedule, but we did not change. Now, maybe the PI, which appears to generally be the weaker paper from an economic stability standpoint, is trying a forcible takeover of customers. It frequently has more interesting sports news, so you think we might be swayed rather easily. And really – do you think we are going to run down to the corner newstand and swap? or will we just read what is delivered.

Good Shepard Center, from Historic Seattle

We went and saw a friend’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest.
Our friends, the grownups, their daughter and several other high school age students staged the show.
It was great! I was so impressed.  Ashlan is trying to see it on Wednesday.

They staged the show in a space on the fourth floor of the Good Shepard Center.
The following is a brief description of the building’s history.

Original Owners: Sisters of the Good Shepherd.

Historic Seattle’s Role:

After providing over 60 years of service to young women seeking shelter, education, and training (like, home for unwed mothers and other forms of reform), declining numbers of residents forced the Home of the Good Shepherd to close in 1973. After the Wallingford community defeated a proposal to turn the 11-acre site into a shopping center, the City of Seattle bought the property in 1975 with Forward Thrust and Federal Revenue Sharing funds and then transferred the buildings to Historic Seattle for use as a multi-purpose community center. The project is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and gained Offical City of Seattle Landmark status on September 10, 1984.