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Yesterday was a long, but enjoyable day. Got up at 7am to head up to Lynnwood where I was helping judge a Living Greyhawk gameday. Turned out they had the morning slot covered already by the time I arrived, so I hung out an hour or so and then gave jeliza a call. We had a nice breakfast in the company of the divinemisso, and then I had another few hours to kill. jeliza recommended a beach in Edmonds, but a steady stream of divers kept the parking lot full. Still managed to explore the area a bit--I had only been in that area for a short time while exiting a car ferry.

Eventually made it back to judge the afternoon slot, then skipped out of the last slot to have a date with jeliza. Most of our dates have started pretty late, so it was a novel thing for her to be available while it was still light. Unfortunately, drakemonger had taken seriously ill so our time was limited though quite enjoyable.

jeliza and I have a lot of overlap in musical taste, but certainly not exactly the same collection of artists. She made a mix CD for me including a bunch of different stuff, and I really like Jill Sobule. The only song anyone is likely to know of hers is "I Kissed A Girl". She never really fit into the 'hit-maker' mold and lost her major label a few years back. Really nice, really quirky music.

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So I was musing about plans for today and thought about going out for breakfast. I was considering Julia's on Broadway, and then I remembered today is Pride, and the Pride March goes right in front of Julia's... It would be fun to watch, but I doubt I can find parking and I'm sure the place is packed... I guess I could be a real Seattleite and try to get over there on bus. At least they serve brunch until 4pm and the march started an hour ago :>

I guess that makes it pretty clear what my brother Todd has been up to this week in NYC...

Seattle Pride

I managed to find parking without too much trouble since it was near the end of the Pride March. I had a good brunch at Julia's on Broadway while watching the tail end of the parade go by. I then followed the route down to Volunteer Park to check out the Pride Festival a while. It was somewhere between Bite of Seattle and Lilith Faire in terms of feel, and was a sizeable crowd. The vendor booths were a mix of political action groups, community support, and a lot of company's pushing for business from this particular marketing demographic. Not much in the way of pro-Bush anything :> Volunteers were getting people to register to vote, and people seem to be enjoying themselves in the sunny "hot" (i.e. 76 degree high) weather.

The only annoying thing was the trash left along Broadway by the march spectators: "pick up your fucking trash!"