Top Pot

Last night coming up the 405 I saw the Microsoft towers in Bellevue. First time I'd seen those. Part of me kinda wants to go out on Lake Sammamish and see Bill Gates lakeshore home. Like you can see Warren Buffet's house in Omaha. I saw them both together at the Berkshire Hathaway shareholder's meeting in 2010. Cara, slap happy because it was after 1 AM here, two hours west of our timezone, cracked jokes about being hungry and needing a Sammamish. She was here with Kirsten and Kanutte last June for a conference, but this time it's just for fun. And I'm here instead of Kanutte, so maybe they'll moderate the girl power. Maybe. Right now I'm at the local coffee shop on my laptop, and they've gone to hang out upstairs. We'll all be heading to the Marathon Expo a little later and then to do some downtown Seattle stuph. It's comfortably cool here. And the large fir trees are just beautiful. Something about the smell of the bacteria in the soil is different here in the West.

The kids sent me silly photos of them wearing Starbucks napkins on their faces in Hilton Head, so I responded in kind:

Those kids crack me up! It's great having Cara around old friends, because she gets so silly, too. So I'm basically surrounded by sillies. We also woke up a little before 6 AM local time after a single a sleep cycle. Coffee and doughnuts were a necessary start to this day! We'll probably crash later, but that's good. I want to get good sleep tonight before my marathon tomorrow. I feel quite fat after not running for a week, but my weight has been pretty stable in the upper 2-teens. But maybe I should start to think of myself as being just under 100 kg. Then I suppose I need to get down to 80 kg.