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I was in Seattle (briefly) at the end of last month, and counting on my fingers just now discovered that that Saturday was eleven days ago now, which is six and three-quarters months in Internet time (eight months if you’re using the Canadian Internet calendar), which hardly makes for breaking news if I were to write about it now, but — BUT — I had a really good time when I was there, and got to talk with a lot of cool people, some of whom I’d met before and some not, but all of whom were good to spend time with.  Whew!

Oh!  And there was a Starbucks (see FIGURE 1 above).  The first one ever, at the Pike Place Market, which was much more crowded than the last time I was there, but we still had a good time picking our way through the tables and finding sweet things to snack on.

in the market for honey

I came away from Seattle, and that awesome meet up full of happy people and cold beer, with a single directive, multiple persons all sending the same request my way: “Write more, you big hairy ape*.”  So, I will.  Honest!  Because I seem to have a fair bit of free time on my hands these days, since in the eleven days since I visited Seattle I seem to have—

—AHHHHHH!!!  Stay tuned.

(*to be fair, I don’t think anyone actually called me a big hairy ape; I usually use this appellation when addressing myself.)

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