Loft Painting Weekend

We're just about ready to move into our belltown loft. We spent the whole weekend painting it with help from two Millionaire Club guys and Hank. We plan to move in next week.

View of the kitchen below and the main bedroom above. You can see the red stairs leading up to the roof top deck. We were only going to take Henry's advice to paint under the stairs red if he did it.	View of the stairs up to the loft level and front door below and the second bedroom above.
Henry got his head stuck in the railing putting on masking tape.	This is Hector one of the Millionaire Club guys. He was the most experienced painters on the job. Just he could talk the leg off an iron stove (in broken english). Nearly drove us crazy.

We're moving

Sorry for being off the air so long. We have been packing every weekend for our move. Yes Mardi, I didn't realise how much junk, ah stuff you have tucked away in little nooks and crannies.

After the commercial space in the vine building fell through we had practically given up on moving downtown and were warming to the idea of staying put in Fig Leaf. We found out the loft next to Grace had just become vacant. We jumped at the chance to rent it...so now we have a great opportunity to live downtown while we don't have kids and then maybe build out in Issaquah in a couple years.

The place is a double wide loft ~1500 f/sq in the Belltown Lofts building. It has a ~500 f/sq root top deck also which looks out to the city and to Mt Rainier. We can see the water if we sneak onto Grace's deck. ;)

I went to the Seahawks Broncos preseason game on Saturday night with TonyG. Seriously, every time I go out him I get way to drunk. What great seats. I was right on the 50 yard line only a few rows back from the guard rail. Thanks Tony for the first fix of football for the season.

After the football I walked down to belltown from the pub. Grace was hosting a party for our Brian. Happy Birthday Mate!

Weekend at Open Sores

Mardi and I had the perfect weekend at Ocean Shores with Shace and Bribeca.

On the way there on Friday afternoon we stopped in Aberdeen the town where Mardi grew up. We drove by her house up on "Think of Me Hill" and her school.

It was a fantastic opportunity to relax, read magazines, talk shit, play board games and drink among great friends. The conversations would invariable veer towards technology and design. I really have hit the ground running with friends here in the USA. I'm so lucky to have met you guys otherwise I would never have met "The love of my life...". Some know the end of that Dion-ism. Thanks Grace, I have already started using my 1980's blog Mark gave me.

Lizzy our Nissan Z really enjoyed the weekend too. Driving on the tree lined windy roads was so much fun. Except when there were cars in the way especially Yamaha motorcycles :)

Mardi writhing in the sand	It's harder than it looks. Mardi trying to climb up to the little cave carved into the sand cliff.
Bribecca	Dion, Shy and Brian