Archive for October 2007

October 20th, 2007: Portland Again

Visited Thea in Portland again, with a long side trip to Seattle to see Interpol play and hang out in another awesome city.

Thea ran a marathon and no amount of modesty will make that not impress me

One fun part was that we had bought train tickets to get up to Seattle. We arrive at the train station early in the morning to discover that strong winds have derailed a train and that there's no northbound service at all. Being enterprising folks we decided to rent a car and make the three-hour drive instead. About ten minutes out of town, a bigass piece of thin aluminum gets blown off a truck and hits the right front of the car. We were both fine, but the car wasn't, and I couldn't get the truck to pull over or get its plates. And I had declined the vehicle damage waiver. Hertz has yet to get back to me about all that but I bet the aftermath will be a blast.

good times

We did get to Seattle in one piece though.

Thea and Alyssa: may have had a few drinks at the bar

takin' Anthropologie down a notch

rain in Seattle? no way!

Thea's moving back to Berkeley for the spring semester so that's a bit less of a reason to stop by Portland. But it's still an awesome city and I'm definitely coming back, hopefully sooner rather than later.

Leaving Portland: middle of the Hawthorne Bridge, 10/19/07, 10:04 PM

October 13th, 2007: Miscellaneous Tomfoolery

First, karaoke for Mo's birthday. Sadly I had to arrive late and missed a lot of the fun.

Justin and Mo

Then, party at Palo Alto with Mike and his Google buddies.

this kind of classiness ...

... leads to this kind

Mike, me, Bobby, the departing Swede Maria

I have so many more pictures along these lines

and these

three best expressions ever

October 11th, 2007: ATA Dedication Ceremony

The ATA had its formal dedication ceremony on October 11th. A lot of other people took pictures that were actually good, but here's my small contribution: