Another Championship Match

 Western Washington University Vikings 2

West Chester University Golden Rams 1

NCAA DII Championship

Interbay Stadium - Seattle, WA

December 3, 2022

 

Glad I went

 The Splintered Wand

Ballard

Friday night a couple days ago.

Had a nice evening.  Cool venue.

I had the Sloppy Joe pie, with the deviled eggs appetizer plate and a pear shrub.

Some clips from the DC trip

Abe's place

Championship celebration from field level

Theatre 

 

Wandering around DC this weekend

 I was in the capital for a few days for the first time.

Photo dump of  monuments and Ford's Theatre and NWSL Championship.

First night, TWH in the distance down the street from the hotel.

Local neighborhood of hotel getting breakfast.

In honor of George.

Abe in the distance.

Abe up close.

With Abe.

The White House.

Ford's Theatre Historic Site.

BJK

PTFC 2 KCC 0 NWSL Championship 10/29/22 Audi Field

Thorns celebration.

Our tiny Skugge cat now gets to come to my office

 Learning some boundaries.

Orcas Island for a wedding

 Orcas Island for a wedding.

Delightfully lucky with the amazing weather for a three day weekend.

Bison Antiquus Exhibit at the Orcas Island Historical Museum in Eastsound.

Fifth time's a charm

 

Iron Maiden

Climate Pledge Arena

Seattle, WA 

September 29, 2022

w/Trivium

With West in the books, my con season is short this year

 

Don't know if I will do another one within the next 6 months, we will see.

Another Emerald in the books

 I am processing how long I have been doing this, how many hours, etc ...

Trophies

 I realized yesterday that I have seen a number of the bigger trophies in sport in person. 

So, when the WUCL was available to get a pic with, I added that to the list.

NPC character names get a little weird

 

The DM amuses himself.

Touring Production

 Saw other plays recently in NYC trips and this show is closing this fall, so the touring production at its origin point was acceptable. Birthday presents of tickets are cool.

Come From Away July 26, 2022

Ah, Summer "vacation"

 

I don't write these much any more

Poem in my notebook

6-16-2022

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There are divergent timelines

Of myself

The multiverse

The one who went for Broadway out of high school

The one who did law school and took the bar

The one that didn’t go dancing that night

The one who decided to travel as a coach or give it a shot

The one who studied abroad

The ones who crashed and didn’t walk away those times

The ones that chased or didn’t walk away

The one that took that job

The ones that said or didn’t say, did or didn’t do those things he regrets 

The one that hasn’t learned any lessons

The one writing this today

The other guys

Still me?

Recognizable

Lost

Found

Curious

Here or there

Reading this back

She is getting so big

 

Skugge is getting so big.

Broadway

 Broadway weekend May 7 and 8 was three Broadway shows and the Off-Broadway Drunk Shakespeare.

Six matinee 5-8

Plaza Suite evening 5-7

Hadestown matinee 5-7

I had previous been to a few shows and touring productions.

Moulin Rouge Oct 2021

Waitress October 2019

Sly Fox June 2001

The Tony Awards Red Carpet June 2004

Touring productions in Seattle over the years.

Hamilton Feb 2018

Wicked June 2019

The Phantom May 2015 

(This is the 2nd of two times at The Phantom, including September 2003)

It also turns out that both stage plays I have been to on Broadway were revivals from the 1970s originally starring George C. Scott, which is a weird coincidence.

That open space is more awesome than I thought it would be

I was never really sold on the viaduct and tunnel projects in the sense of the impact that would be positive to the waterfront. Years ago in the early days of this blog I even commented on it.

It always just seemed like a fairly low level long overpass and not really that big of a deal.

But, now that it is totally down and I have had a chance to see the street by street changes at street level I am amazed.

Now that I have had a chance or two to drive along it and see how much more open it really is I am amazed.

Having recently gone to SF and then walking the home waterfront I now know what everyone was talking about.

It never seemed like it should have made this much of a difference, but wow it really did.

My tribute painting to the Origi graffiti

 

Off to Chicago for some convention work

 Star Trek Mission Chicago

April 8-10. 2022

Season 8 of Reign coverage

 

Season 8 of @GoalieGuys coverage and match reports on ProstAmerika has begun.

My tenth Cascadia NWSL Derby.

OLR 1

PTFC 1

Now from Lumen Field ...

Media work tangents

The off cam photo was noticed, so now I need to maybe make someone here a saber ...