🎈Party with Meghan and Ben. 🎈Fourth of July (also the birth of this app) 🎈Dog park with Jake and Tres. 🎈Sushi with Jake and Tres. 🎈Saw the Illusionist with Jake and Tres. It was ok. 🎈Tres‘ parents house for games and awesomeness 🎈Little Miss Sunshine (again) and video games with Bill. Woo! 🎈Dinner in the international district with all sorts of neat people. 🎈Drove to Portland for Sarah‘s fiber festival 🎈Bongos. Beer. Oktoberfest. 🎈Jake and Tres happy fun time 🎈Mexican with Jake, Tres, etc 🎈Chris and Nan flew in. Shopped in Georgetown. 🎈Holidays. Yelled at woman in Barnes and Noble. 🎈Ate out. Got food poisoning. Went away quickly. 🎈New Year‘s Eve in the ER. 🎈Lloyd, Bill, Sarah: Guitar Hero and movie. 🎈Hanging out with Lloyd and Bill. 🎈Dinner with Stacey, Luke, and Desmond 🎈Another epic conversation with Jon about baresquare 🎈Went with Ann to pick up Jules at the airport; ate spicy fetwiches 🎈Lunch with Ian, Chris, Jon, Rick, and Jeremiah 🎈OMG GAMES WITH SCOTT AND BILL!!1 🎈Took Ann and Jules to airport 🎈Games with Jon and Scott~ 🎈Lunch with Luke and Colin 🎈Hung out with E, Z, and L. 🎈Crab dinner at the Matsuos‘ 🎈Bowling, Pool, and Drinks w/ Stacey. 🎈Corrected Liam on the actual value of Avagadro‘s Number. 🎈Fried Oysters, piano-playing, and kimono-wearing at the Matsuos‘ 🎈Trivia Night @ Redhook Brewery (We Won!) 🎈Dinner at Mr Villa w/ Luke and Noel 🎈Mixed-rice dinner at the Matsuos‘ 🎈Out dancing and hanging out... 🎈Dustin kicked my ass at darts. 🎈Tonkatsu dinner at the Matsuos‘ 🎈Lunch with Ian, Patrick, and Taylor 🎈Hang out with Not-Cousin Josh. 🎈Korean dinner, and then coffee, with old college friends 🎈Erin‘s Friend‘s Birthday @ Pasta Fresca 🎈Seafood spaghetti and coffee at Mauka Meadows 🎈Super fancy marriage gathering thingy. This was an all-day affair. 🎈Table 84, where are you? (26/40) 🎈Schultzy‘s with Hog, Beta, Gay, Piddy 🎈Eggs benedict and Greek omelette at Portage Bay Cafe 🎈1st half Superbowl with Family 🎈SuperBowl XLI + Pinochle with convalescing SO 🎈2nd Half Super Bowl at Brandi‘s Party 🎈Helped Andrew set up his portrait equipment 🎈Super fun times with Darren, Scott, Bill 🎈Games and snax with Jon, Scott, and Darren 🎈Hanging out at Jon & Sarah‘s 🎈Broke in Beta‘s new place. Oh God the hangover. 🎈Tyler: \"By the power ironically vested in me by the state of Washington, I pronounce Guillermo and Carrie husband and wife.\" 🎈Went out for gelato together 🎈Trivia Night: Table 84 triumphant! (w/special guest) 🎈Family gathered in the sweet suite 🎈Hanging out with family in the lobby 🎈Driving around and hanging out with hachi 🎈[Trivia] Table 84 defends their crown! 🎈Jake and Tres / Street Fighter 2 🎈Enjoyed meeting Farecast. Impressive people, impressive company. 🎈Kyle Cease @ The Moore w/ Ian, Emily, (pat)Rick 🎈Walked around Seattle‘s new sculpture park with Sarah and dog 🎈Went to see Jules and Ann 🎈Flowers with Bill and Hiroko 🎈Tulip thingy with Jon and Sarah 🎈Games with Jon!! Yeah!!¬° 🎈Sendoff party for friend of friend @ Golden Gardens 🎈Chatted with Sarah a lot. 🎈A Very Special Trivia Night (tie for 4th w/ 90/150 🎈Chris at airport, beginning of visit 🎈Sasquatch didn‘t happen, but we had a good day with Chris 🎈Chris Chris Chris (plus Stratego and Ticket to Ride!) 🎈Chris and I went from Pioneer Square to Queen Anne. Whew. 🎈Everyone‘s in town for graduation and baby shower 🎈Bill said \"hey! balloons at the baby shower, like the icons in bouquet!\" 🎈Nathan and Miller‘s baby shower. 🎈Sabrina and Shane are married! 🎈Took Sabrina and Shane‘s gifts to their house. 🎈Hung out with Megan, Anna, Lora, and (later) Kiril. 🎈Hung out with Megan and Kiril and Anna. 🎈Attended my own wedding celebration 🎈Hanging out around the pool with family; geek talk with Thom and Timothy 🎈Tricia and Doug are married! 🎈going for late-night coffee... if they‘re open 🎈To the park with Grandma Jean, Jeffro, Sarah, Jason, Emmie, and Mia. 🎈Dinner with Tom, Mari, and Amia. 🎈Dinner at Nathan and Miller‚Äôs with little Nathan and a cast of thousands. 🎈KEXP Summer BBQ: Woo, woo and a woo woo. 🎈Shopping & Lunch @ Northgate 🎈D&D @ Omni with awesomedoods 🎈Went into city for lunch (crepes) and shopping 🎈Ikea with Nate and Sarah. 🎈Demo of Soft Landing and general chit-chat until late @ Victrola Caf√© 🎈PAX Day 3. Totally wowsome! 🎈Playtime with Felix and Saku 🎈Jalisco‘s with Jake and Tres 🎈Ticket to Ride, Mario Soccer, Nate 🎈Empire Builder with Sarah and Nate 🎈Grown-up conversation with Meghan, Tom, and Elle, not all of which revolved around the kids. A very good evening. 🎈Party for Lora at Melissa and Steve‘s. Saw Joe, Rachel, and Annie; Annie gave Nathan a big hug and kiss. 🎈Very little tv, mostly good conversation 🎈Went to new landlord‘s gorgeous house to sign papers; he was super nice and toured us around 🎈Ran into Susannah on a random side street; talked, and watched Caroline stand. 🎈Ate dinner at Tom & Elle‚Äôs, with Elle‚Äôs mom and (of course) Connor. The guys had a blast. 🎈Funtimes at Ann & Jules‘ new place 🎈Lovely dinner and DVD-watching at Andrew‘s 🎈Maxfuntimes having okonomiyaki with Nathaniel, Peter, Melissa, Ann & Jules 🎈Nice dinner with Ethan & Andrew at Andrew‘s house 🎈Saw Jon and Sarah and baby. 🎈Good conversation with Meghan, Miller, and Nathan. 🎈Brought dinner to Jon and Sarah and Nan (and, indirectly, Elliott); Tom and Elle and Connor were there, too. Nathan and Connor got a case of the \"eeeeeee\"s. 🎈Lunch and resting at Omni with Andrew; he is heroic for helping us move 🎈Visited Jon, Sarah, Elliott, and Norma. 🎈Dick‘s Drive In burgers and HGTV at Omni with Andrew 🎈Elle‚Äôs birthday party, with a cast of thousands of two-year-old boys and two girls. 🎈Super funtimes with the Bell family 🎈Lovely dinner at Tilth with Jon and Sarah. Phones were watched for calls from babysitting parents. 🎈When the dude was done at Nathan and Miller‘s party, he said \"Play animal. Play Lego\", then walked to the front door and tried to put on his boots. 🎈Hung out with Lora. After she left, Nathan went to the window and asked \"More Lora?\". 🎈General funtimes with Jules, Anny, Nathaniel, and Rushi!! Cookies and soap GET! 🎈Greg brought us bahn mi and pho. 🎈3 long hours on the 41st floor. 🎈Pizza at Darin and Beth and Jacques‘s. Nathan and Jacque got along great. 🎈Spent a little time with Anne and Adam. 🎈Beth and Darin are married! 🎈Dinner with Lee and Ronnie. 🎈Super funtimes at Ethan & Bee‘s 🎈Mom, Billie, Katie, Andre (!), Greg, and Jocelyn. 🎈Kid-friendly happy hour at Nathan & Miller‘s. 🎈Joined twitter in order to test air apps 🎈ROCK BAND WITH OMNI SO FUN 🎈Picked mom up from the train station. 🎈The Children‘s Museum with Tom and Connor. 🎈Jenni and Bill are engaged! (Festivities at Nathan and Miller‘s.) 🎈Hanging out with Andrew at the new office 🎈Nash family Christmas at Billie‘s. 🎈Tom and Elle‘s tree; then Bill and Hiroko showed up! 🎈Hung out at Omni and set off the new alarm twice 🎈Dinner and hanging out with the cat at Omni 🎈Resch family Christmas, much smaller than last year because three of the four Poulsbo cousins got married. 🎈Dinner and general funtimes at Katy‘s 🎈Christmas funtimes with family 🎈Christmas Day with mom and Billie at Greg and Jocelyn‘s. Nathan made out like a bandit. 🎈Mom‘s boss came for dinner 🎈Game night at Jake and Tres‘ 🎈More family funtimes, including gift exchange... Oxford Deluxe World Atlas GET! 🎈Finally saw Joe‘s house; it is awesome and expensive-looking 🎈New years eve!! Not actually a huge day for me. Hopefully just about everything will change in the new year. We‘ll see! 🎈Met up with a friend who needs me more than I need her. 🎈Open house at the Bunches. Brought panforte. Nathan was a little hyper. 🎈Gave in-laws a tour of the new Omni 🎈Had dinner with my friends. 🎈Bighuge party at the new Omni; got kind of anxious about all the strangers 🎈ROCKBAND AT OMNI SO FUN WOO 🎈General hangoutness for James‘s last day 🎈General hanging out with Liz, and a bit of Bookworm Adventures 🎈General hangoutness in lobby with Andrew, Joel, Liz 🎈Lloyd and Emily. Great people. 🎈Hung out with the Journler guy, some TUAW guys, an Ars guy, and some MacMod guys 🎈Dessert: Various pastries. 🎈AIR/Flex 3.0 Tour at Adobe 🎈Enjoyable lunch with former co-workers. 🎈Meghan celebrated her birthday at the ceramics painting shop, while Nathan and I hung out at the bookstore. Then Meghan found an awesome pair of jeans for $12. 🎈Amy came over for breakfast. 🎈Jake‘s birthday in SnoHo. 🎈Connor‘s 2nd birthday party, starring Connor and about a zillion other kids. Connor hugged me when I walked in. 🎈Went to a baby food seminar. I think every new baby in Seattle was there. 🎈Maximum fun at Sarah & Jon‘s 🎈Pancakes etc. with Mom, Greg, and Jocelyn. Excellent. 🎈Nan, Chris, Sarah, including hilarious Rockband sessions. 🎈All-ages happy hour at Nathan and Miller‘s, with Miller‘s mom as special guest. Great time. 🎈nice conversation over tea and pound cake at Andrew‘s 🎈Tom and Elle and Connor came over! 🎈Greg and Jocelyn over for dinner! Nathan loves them. 🎈Met Corinne and Benjamin at the farmer‘s market; ran into Avi. 🎈Tea and conversation at Andrew‘s 🎈Greg and Jocelyn over for breakfast! Nathan loves them. 🎈Super nice funtimes with Paul and Moxie 🎈Shishka and Nathaniel! Much conversation about stand mixers and serial killers. 🎈Unexpected party at work! 🎈Gave parents the Omni tour 🎈General fun times with parents 🎈Battlestar Galactica party at work!! 🎈Spent the day at the Rabels‘, with special guests Carrie and Isabella in from Peru. 🎈Maxfun with Sarah and Jon and Elliott!! 🎈Bill and Hiroko made us a yummy dinner. 🎈Lots of hangout with Nathaniel 🎈Baby BBQ. That sounds bad, but it was lovely. 🎈Meghan and Ben for dinner. 🎈Dinner at Jon and Sarah‘s. Nathan passed out on the way home. (And how did Elliott get so big?) 🎈Tom, Elle, and Connor! Also Rebecca and Eli showed up! Party! 🎈Greg‘s and Jocelyn‘s after burgers. Nathan didn‘t want to leave. 🎈Greg and Jocelyn came over. 🎈To Bainbridge for Mother‘s Day. 🎈NC for visit with Elliott, Jon and Sarah 🎈Parents and kids at Laurent and Michelle‘s. Nathan and I were the only non-French-speakers there. 🎈Met Meghan at Becky‘s house; saw Shannon for the first time in ages. 🎈Good times with Nathaniel and Shishka 🎈Elliott met a bunch of family and loved it. 🎈Really, really fun time with Jules, Ann, Emily, & Roscoe 🎈Nomikai. I just cannot seem to enjoy these things. 🎈Met more distant cousins. 🎈Nico‘s birthday party. Lots of crepes and guitar hero. 🎈Took Anja shopping and to airport 🎈Ran into Avi and Genevieve; caught up for a few minutes. 🎈There is no \"Getting married in 25 days\" icon... 🎈Katie‘s fashion opening. One piece already sold. 🎈Greg and Jocelyn babysat the dude! 🎈Saw the Omni Crew. They‘re all so mean. 🎈Mr. Jetfuel and I talked about UI and it was wonderful. 🎈General evening hangoutness 🎈OmniFocus meetup and Savant meetup 🎈Jon Bell and a .net guy, in the tie fighter atop the Mariott 🎈Bar funtimes after the ADAs 🎈Hung out with Greg and Jocelyn. 🎈Bar with coworkers and miscellaneous Apple people 🎈Apple bash had Barenaked Ladies. They‘re fun. 🎈Hanging out with Jon Bell at WWDC is pretty much the funnest thing 🎈Even more Jonnnnnnnnnnnn Belllllllll; so fun 🎈Jan, Tom, Jess, Mike, Nan, Sarah, Elliott and me in Richmond. 🎈Brunch with Meghan, Nathan, Evan, and Kristen in der Bundesrepublik Seattle. 🎈Met up with childhood friend Craig for the first time in 6 years!! 🎈Greg and Jocelyn came over! 🎈Visited Polly and Jerry. They hadn‘t met the dude yet. 🎈Dinner with takashi, wakana, yukiko 🎈Visited Pete and Jane; Caroline and Eric were also there. They hadn‘t met the dude yet. 🎈Rie‘s wedding. Yay japanese weddings. 🎈Evening at Nathaniel‘s! Super fun! 🎈Helped Greg and Jocelyn unpack books. 🎈First £Æ˰剺ö at my favorite INDO CURRY joint. 🎈Nephew Brad interested in solar, geothermal 🎈Super yummy dinner with Meghan, Ben, and Nathan. 🎈Jon, Sarah, and Elliott! Haven‘t seen them in like forever; much catching up. 🎈Takashi‘s ÈÄÅÂà•‰ºö at the indian joint 🎈Teagen‘s houseboat is always fun. 🎈Picnic at Benjamin and Corinne‘s. Lots of kids, all of whom had a great time. 🎈Indoor „Åä„Å´„Åé„Çä picnic at Nathaniel‘s 🎈Big long walk with Sarah, Elliott, Rebecca, and Eli. 🎈Nathaniel‘s after work is fun 🎈Nathaniel came by even tho D&D was canceled 🎈Final £Æ˰剺ö. Wonderful. 🎈Post-dinner walk along the ship canal. 🎈Dining out with Yvan, Caroline, and Germain. 🎈Golden Gardens with mom‘s group and dads tagging along 🎈Legendary 9x birthday party at Ann & Jules‘ 🎈Birthday party for Takashi 🎈To Bainbridge for mother-in-law‘s birthday. 🎈Neighbor‘s surprise birthday party 🎈Megan and Lincoln at Central Market for outdoor music and food. 🎈I‘m visiting the family today. Heading back later on though. 🎈Bumped in Morgan, Tres, and Jake, who deviously put ideas in my head. 🎈Nan in town on the way to Canada. 🎈Lora, Amy, and Dave at Capitol Club! 🎈Dinner at Nathan & Miller‘s, with Mabry, Miller‘s parents, and another half dozen or so others. The dude charmed. 🎈Listened to Brian talk about how he found a particular 600-year-old manuscript, perhaps the oldest copy of a 1000-year-old work and previously only rumored to still exist, in a library in Istanbul. Alas, it did not involve fighting Nazis or swinging across a chasm with a whip. 🎈Dinner with Greg, Jocelyn, and Lora at Suny‘s. 🎈Fancy demo & dinner by a shiny Silicon Valley company 🎈Going-away party for Avi and Genevieve. 🎈hachi and the Lancasters at Omni 🎈Back home today visiting the family. 🎈Baby birthday party. Got to play Guitar Hero. 🎈Saw Tom briefly for couch movin‘. 🎈Party at boss‘s new house 🎈Poolside enjoyment with family 🎈Sat around the pool all day 🎈Talk politics all through dinner 🎈Sat around the pool all day 🎈Mom‘s boss came by for dinner 🎈Corinne and Benjamin‘s baby shower at Nathan and Miller‘s! 🎈Pete & (Ch|K)rist(i|y), Joe & Mindy, at Joe‘s house 🎈Met Corinne at the farmer‘s market. 🎈Ran into Nathan at the coffee shop. Talked, each missing our next bus. 🎈Farewell-to-Jenny-and-Bill dinner with Meghan at Tilth. Highlight was probably the sous vide egg. 🎈Sarah and E back in town. 🎈Met up with good friend from way out of town 🎈Ran into Nathan and Miller at coffee. Miller is teaching up the hill from my office. 🎈A whole bunch of socializing. 🎈Yeahh!! Elliott‘s first birthday 🎈So nice to see jetfuel & co. As always. 🎈I‘m off to sleep. Early morning coming up all this week. I had a good weekend. My mom and sisters were here. Just reminds me how much I love them. I‘ll see them again in a couple weeks but I‘ll chat and text with them tomorrow. 🎈Dinner with the wedding party at the Kennedy School. The dude had a fabulous time running through the halls with Aiden. 🎈John Henry‘s first birthday party. 🎈Mr Nater is in town. Had lunch. 🎈Hangoutness with Jon & Sarah competes with cosmology for being the funnest thing. 🎈Funeral. Balloons are a strange icon for it, but the deceased had a long and lovely life with lots of loved ones. 🎈Political potluck with Mormons 🎈Greg and Jocelyn over for dinner and pumpkin carving. 🎈Company party, joined by Bill and Hiroko. 🎈Frog Design party whoa wooo wheeeee 🎈basck home for the weekend. kinda tired from all the driving. 🎈My hairdresser (secular Turk) asked me if I believe Jesus is really God. I have a better answer now. Baraq and the Night Journey. 🎈Greg and Jocelyn over to watch the dude! 🎈Offered crash pad to relatives for inauguration. One nibble so far. 🎈Hung out with Meghan, Nathan, and Katie. 🎈Susannah and Caroline dropped by! Nathan overwhelmed Caroline with gifts of toys; she was dubious, and assertive of personal space. 🎈Dinner and conversation in the shack 🎈Hunting team expands with MIke‘s son Josh, brother Jim and his daughters Megan and Rebecca. Rebecca to hunt and Megan to learn field dressing 🎈Ruslana‘s going-away party. 🎈CEO turned 40. Surprise party. 🎈Free burritos at Chipotle‘s. 🎈Billie, Katie, Greg, and Jocelyn over for Thanksgiving! 🎈Loverly Thanksgiving at boss‘s house 🎈had thanksgiving again today. was fun to be with family. didn‘t sleep in like I had planned but its cool. 🎈Apples to Apples with family. Very fun. 🎈Max fun at the Lancasters‘ new house! 🎈Added family to facebook friends list 🎈Drinking latte at Greenberry‘s, Prius outside. Wishing I had that bumper sticker. 🎈Super max funtimes at Lancasters‘ housewarming 🎈Extended funtimes at the Lancasters‘; free pizza, snow, drinks, Cheez-It 🎈Dude‚Äôs birthday party at Pacific Science Center, with August (and Elizabeth) and Elliott (and Jon and Sarah). As usual, I got fragments of adult conversation that left me wanting more. 🎈Tom came over for Nathan‚Äôs family birthday party; everyone else was snowed/iced in. 🎈Nathan and Miller stopped by after a night movie at the Crest. Had good conversation over cupcakes and spiked gourmet hot chocolate. 🎈Hung out with Bill and Hiroko, which ruled. 🎈Maximum hangout with Jon & Sarah 🎈Christmas dinner with Meghan‘s dad‘s side of the family. The dude received So Many Dinosaurs. 🎈Jake and Tres stopped by with the greatest Christmas card ever. For reals. 🎈Greg, Jocelyn, and Katie braved the snow to visit! 🎈Really max maxfun maxtimes with maxfriends at my maxoffice for Maxmas. 🎈Second Christmas: David, Anja, Moritz, and Nikita 🎈General funtimes at Nathaniel‘s 🎈Great visit from Jon, Sarah, Elliott, and Nan. The dudes had a great time together. 🎈Had a great time at Ben, Meghan, and Nathan‘s house. 🎈To Bainbridge for a belated Christmas. 🎈Mayo bakudan onigiri and general funs with Nathaniel 🎈Mom in town for a belated Christmas! 🎈Belated Christmas with mom, Greg, and Jocelyn! 🎈Jon Bell came over again wooooo!! 🎈To a party at the house of the dude‘s preschool friend Zac. Fun. 🎈More LBP fun at Nathan‘s with Bill. 🎈Greg and Jocelyn came over. 🎈Nathaniel, Travis, and Anthony are all coolmans 🎈Played Rockband with strangers at Blockbuster. 🎈Hangouts and vacation picture viewen with Ann & Jules 🎈Brunch at B&O for Jenni and Bill being back in town.