goatkiller666

That's two couples on 11th and 42nd now. Congrats on the new place!

Wait, there are other SG peeps in my building? Or at least across the intersection from me?

That's just hella cool. Hook me an introduction, please?

You could join the ranks of freckle+aperock and me who live on 11th!

If I have any choice in the matter, it will be so.

And... we got it. Now we gotta do inspections and all that other crap. It's going to be a fun two months, between GETTING the house and then moving into the place.

I think what sucks the most is that we got rid of a bunch of our stuff when we moved out here from NC. I had this super-awesome desk that got busted by the movers. But it was big. Huge big. So big that we didn't have anywhere to put it, and I didn't want to have this stack of busted desk filling up my living room for the months it would take to get the movers to pay us for it.

So now we're going to have to repopulate the house with stuff.

white elephants are random, so you don't have to know anyone. if you want to be nice, you can go buy something funny/neat-o for $15 of less. if you are me you will bring a large jesus snowglobe and a sack of 38 ikea tealight candles.

White Elephant is a must, then.

So, I went onto Meetup.com and got myself signed up to some groups. It was easy finding the really focused groups, like sea kayaking and RPGing. I'm not sure about the general "go someplace and just hang out" kind of groups. There was one for women only, and one for 20s / 30s couples. One for singles. One for people who want to explore their sexuality. But nothing for "kinda geeky people". Guess that's what the SG group is for?

Hope you had a good time at SteamCon. I've lived in Seattle for a few years now, and a reliable bike with the rare bus have gotten me everywhere I need to go. Good luck!

In fact, we got to Steamcon, spent like 30min trying to find the sing-up table (it was in the big atrium area that had big landscaping... I thought that was an outside place, so assumed there wouldn't be a table set up. But no, it was totally covered / heated, and lower than the hotel lobby, so I hadn't seen all the people milling around down there), then 30min standing in line, before we were told that some guy way ahead of us was the last one to get a ticket. They weren't allowed more than some number, for fire code reasons, and that guy was it.

We got to hang out in the vendor booth, where we got some stuff. We got to hang out in the art area, where we got 7 prints of some really cool stuff (and names / websites for yet still others, so we can hit them up later). Then we came home.

Really wish I'd gotten to see Abney Park and the other bands, though.

busses aren't too bad, but for some reason getting from queen anne to the u-district is unreasonably hard. you have to go downtown (opposite direction), then switch buses and go back the other way.

there aren't really any hills between u-district and queen anne though. unless you are in upper, that's a different story.