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Had an absolute blast out and about today at the Pride Day festivities. Gorgeous weather for a parade day — partly cloudy, so it was alternating warm sun and shade to let us cool off — and all sorts of fun people to watch. Watched the parade along Broadway, then wandered around the festival area at Volunteer Park.

Lots of fun — tons of pictures can be found in the photo gallery. Enjoy!

It’s gorgeous outside. Sun, clear skies, temperatures in the high 70’s to low 80’s — and I have to go to work. Grumble. On the bright side, it should be a gorgeous day for the Pride Parade tomorrow! Expect lots of pictures from that sometime Sunday…

I’ve been having a lot of fun with my guests — hence the lack of posts lately. I’ve got to go off to work, so I don’t have time for a wrapup right now, but I can point you over to Kirsten’s account of the last two days.

Of primary interest, however, is the public unveiling of a drink I came up with a few years back, and had been quite popular among my friends since then. We’ve just finally given it a name:

Quickie (shot)\
Equal parts Jagermeister and Aftershock or Goldschlager.

This is, by far, the most devious shot I have ever had. Babycakes says he came up with the idea for the shot when Jagermeister and Aftershock were both popular shots on their own. He decided to try and mix them – a stab in the dark he figured would either be a horrific failure or a gleaming success. Let me tell you – it’s definitely a gleaming success. You take this shot, wait about five or ten seconds, and then wham! It’s like you’ve just been right fucked and got hit up with a delayed orgasm. It had also not been named, this was the one I suggested. I think Babycakes may have previously referred to it as a Jagershock.

Enjoy!

I just found out while wandering around today that Seattle’s 5th Ave. Theatre will be putting on the Rocky Horror Show this September!

I am so there.

Poking my head up for a few moments to say hello!

Prairie came in to town Friday night, Kirsten and Denton showed up at my door Saturday morning, and the four of us have been having fun just tooling around town and hanging out. Some wandering around, a stop by Dragonfish for dinner last night, and a trip out to the Seattle Center to see Matrix: Reloaded in their IMAX theater.

It was HUGE. Fun, though!

That’s the excitement so far…

Today’s BlogFodder asks for 11 objects in your immediate vicinity.

The sad thing is, I could quite honestly take the easy route out and give “Eleven empty Dr. Pepper cans” as my answer. Good thing that more housecleaning is on the schedule for tonight.

1. My camera, waiting for me to empty out the last round of shots.
2. A stack of pictures from Prairie from our last trip to visit her family in Woodland.
3. A Rush Hour DVD that I need to watch to see if it’s scratched badly enough to be unwatchable.
4. An ESPN keyring that I got from Chilkoot Charlie’s bar in Anchorage (this amuses me, because in true sterotypical geek fashion, I couldn’t care less about sports, and because ‘Koots was one of my least favorite hangouts).
5. A novelty cigarette lighter shaped like a penguin that I saw at 7-11 and couldn’t pass up.
6. A stack of CDs that, for one reason or another, I’ve discovered haven’t been ripped into my .mp3 collection yet.
7. A stuffed penguin from Prairie that sits on top of one of my computer monitors, keep watch over all I do.
8. A printed copy of the W3C’s CSS Level 2 specification, which I’ve actually read cover-to-cover.
9. Beginning PHP4, which one of these days I’ll actually start digging through so I can learn a bit more about what I can do with PHP on my website.
10. My checkbook, which these days I use only to pay rent with each month.
11. Clear packing tape that hasn’t been put away since I was mailing DVDs out to the world.

Fascinating, isn’t it?

Only two days until I get a visit from the one and only [geek*muffin] herself, along with her boy! Should be a lot of fun — Kirsten and Denton should be showing up early in the morning this Saturday, and here until Thursday or so, as they embark on Kirsten’s first ever paid vacation!

Posting may be a bit light during the week — for some silly reason, I have this bizarre tendency to give the computers short shrift when I’ve got actual real, living, breathing people visiting my little world. I know, things like that probably mean I’m in danger of getting my geek card revoked, but you’ve got to have your priorities, right?

I just got e-mail that my friends Reed and Kerry just had their first child!

Tienna Vie Judd Dyer was born on June 16th at 11:45pm wieghing 6.5lbs. Kerry is in good health and I will E-mail pics of Tienna as soon as I get them.

Wonderful to hear — congratulations to all three of you!