Cascade Mountain Man Rendezvous, March 8, 2008
  
 
 
march_2008_01.JPG (67753 bytes) Tuesday, March 4
Somebody was tasked with attacking the weed problem in someone's yard...
 
march_2008_02.JPG (344574 bytes) Friday Evening, March 7
Kirkland Performance Center... with Min for "The Miser," by Moliere... put on by the Seattle Shakespeare Company
 
 
Saturday, March 8
The Cascade Mountain Man Rendezvous... with Min... in Monroe, WA...
 
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march_2008_07.JPG (356889 bytes) Min's ensemble on this day was a cross between Chinese and Native American, and more than one Mountain Man stepped up to request a photo with her!
 
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march_2008_13.JPG (346744 bytes) march_2008_14.JPG (399137 bytes) march_2008_15.JPG (423131 bytes) march_2008_16.JPG (365124 bytes) Min in camp...
 
march_2008_17.JPG (227610 bytes) march_2008_18.JPG (380890 bytes) march_2008_19.JPG (312177 bytes) march_2008_20.JPG (277518 bytes) Mamasan Restaurant in downtown Bellevue, in the wee small hours...
 
 
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 XXX Root Beer with John...
 
 
Monday, March 17
Another Microsoft Contract (with the Media Center Extender Devices test team) ends ...
 
march_2008_27.JPG (287946 bytes) Looking out from Building 50 across NE 40th St and the 520, at the massive construction site that would become the Microsoft Commons and Studios...
 
march_2008_28.JPG (346560 bytes) Looking out from Building 50, south, down 156th Ave NE toward the Microsoft Transit Center...
 
march_2008_29.JPG (429784 bytes) march_2008_30.JPG (351462 bytes) Walking out of Building 50 and looking back...
 
march_2008_31.JPG (380219 bytes) march_2008_32.JPG (258862 bytes) Bigfoot at Camp eHome, on the far side of the Building 50 parking garage...
 
march_2008_33.JPG (305174 bytes) march_2008_34.JPG (322338 bytes) Inside Bigfoot...
 
march_2008_35.JPG (213283 bytes) march_2008_36.JPG (367996 bytes) march_2008_37.JPG (298225 bytes) Pulling away from Building 50...
 
march_2008_38.JPG (316728 bytes) South on 156th Ave NE, through the Microsoft Main Campus...
 
march_2008_39.JPG (205105 bytes) march_2008_40.JPG (189277 bytes) Near the Uwajimaya (156th Ave NE at 24th St NE), watching the sun go down over Bellevue and distant Seattle. Another of life's little chapters ending. I had a trip to the Bigfoot factory in British Columbia coming up in a couple of weeks, and I was seriously considering a jaunt to Alaska...
 
 
march_2008_41.JPG (361242 bytes) march_2008_42.JPG (360158 bytes) Thursday, March 20
At the entrance to the Port of Tacoma... Bigfoot maintenance work at the Goodyear Wingfoot...
 
 
march_2008_43.JPG (254638 bytes) march_2008_44.JPG (397598 bytes) Friday, March 21 and Saturday, March 22
Randy (of Charlotte) was in town on business...

First Shot:  Friday lunch at Todai Japanese Seafood Buffet in Redmond...
Second Shot: A Saturday evening gentlemanly meeting in Bigfoot...
 
 
march_2008_45.JPG (427346 bytes) Sunday, March 23
Hong invited me over for Vietnamese coffee at her place in Renton... a Weeping Willow next to her building...
 
 
Friday, March 28
 
march_2008_46.JPG (316565 bytes) Ai returned from a 3 month break in Japan and I fetched her at Sea-Tac...

Happy to have my little buddy back!
 
march_2008_47.JPG (410363 bytes) march_2008_48.JPG (392453 bytes) march_2008_49.JPG (414415 bytes) Beautiful Springtime weather as we drove on 156th Ave NE in Bellevue, at Crossroads, on the way to Ai's place at Mamasan's condo...
 
march_2008_50.JPG (415039 bytes) march_2008_51.JPG (390671 bytes) Mamasan's complex, off NE 8th St near Crossroads...