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Thunderweave at LRC 2010

Kevin — Wed, 26 May 2010 01:43:08 +0000

Just a quick post to show off Jen fronting the band Thunderweave at the May 2010 Ladies Rock camp in Portland. There’s a ton of pictures floating around and more than one video, so I’m going to drop this here and gather up the rest later.

I thought the show was great, all the ladies did an excellent job, my only complaint was that the show was so short.

Balloon Bass Guitar

Kevin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:19:26 +0000

This is not the sort of thing I would normally post, but I would love to catch a full band like this playing at my local bar.

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3rd Quarter

Kevin — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:29:10 +0000

Seahawks up by 14 one minute into the third quarter. Even when you have the lead it is still time to push.

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Seahawks vs. Broncos

Kevin — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:44:46 +0000

So we’re here at qwest field for the Seahawks game. We have sweet suite seats.

It’s kinda interesting seeing how really affluent folks spend money. I’m not sure I would do this all the time even if I could afford it.

Have to say thanks to FedEx for sliding us the tickets. I will let some pictures do some talking for me now.

Diamond Plate is a man’s best friend

Random Picture Wednesday #9

Kevin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:01:47 +0000

When packing and moving, it is important to carefully label breakable items to prevent damage.

If that’s the case, what the hell does this label prevent?

Wesport June 09

Kevin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:04:27 +0000

Jen and I went to Westport this last weekend for Pirate Daze and the Sand and Sawdust festival in Ocean Shores. We headed off to Ocean Shores pretty much first thing Saturday morning to see the sand castle competition.

Teams had a roughly 12 foot square plot of beach to work in. The were assigned plots and allowed to set up their tools at 7am. They were unable to actually enter the plot and begin building until 9am. One of the things I was surprised to find out is that they did not allow you bring sand into or out of your plot. I suppose that just allows the ocean to put everything back pretty much where it came from.

Teams had until 3pm to build and were judged on things like height, cut-throughs, theme and using the plot evenly. We found out a few days before arriving here that Joel’s family was going to have a team present so we were excited to catch up with them and see how they did.

There are two beach access roads near the area and we wound up at the one furthest from the event. We had to walk about half a mile or so to get there but considering the state of parking where the event actually was I think it would have been the same either way. Plus, something about a walk along the beach seems a whole lot better than walking through a parking lot.

From Westport June 09

There were four different divisions for the competition; Family, Novice, Intermediate, and Master. the Family teams were clearly there just for the fun of hanging out together. I saw a bit of overlap in the Novice and Intermediate teams, but the Masters were just amazing. Particularly the theme and detail level of the Masters is what set them apart.

From Westport June 09

This team, in particular, reminded me of a team of archaeologists. It was as if they were uncovering something that was present already instead of building something that wasn’t. It was pretty neat to watch them work, their team was so tightly knit that they rarely needed to speak to one another.

From Westport June 09

Joel’s team was in the intermediate division. They went with a pop culter reference and chose a theme based on Transformers. I was leaning towards some of the more artistic themes, but what the hell do I know, they won their division!

From Westport June 09

It wasn’t supposed to turn out quite like this but I think adapting on-the-fly to build out Optimus Prime like a Sphinx was pretty inspired.

Here’s the winning team:

From Westport June 09

As the event wound down a little fella about Brady’s age walked behind me talking about the piece Joel’s team did. I could decide whether or not he was a jaded little shit or brilliant genius. He walked past and taking a long look said, “I bet they got paid to do that.”

Jaded or not, his observation was remarkable.

Arnold Palmer Cocktail

Kevin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:33:48 +0000

It was a friend’s 21st birthday this past Monday so we went out to The Swiss [Apparently their real site, theswisspub.com is having problems, link goes to MySpace] for a little celebration.

There were many different drinks being handed out to Zach, but one of the interesting ones was the Arnold Palmer cocktail. For whatever reason the bartender called it an Arnold Palmer Weed but I can’t find another reference to it using that name.

The recipe is pretty straightforward:

Highball glass
Cubed Ice
2 oz. Vodka
4 oz. Lemonade
4 oz. Iced Tea
Lemon Wedge Garnish

The difficult part is having had a couple drinks and trying to tell everyone else what it is you are drinking. We went around a few times trying to say it tongue-twister style and had a good laugh. Here is Jen’s final effort:

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Guerilla Band Promotion

Kevin — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:00:16 +0000

After the showcase for Ladies Rock Camp, the chicas from Sharp Decline did their part to add to the Horse Project in Portland.

JAM!

Sharp Decline in concert!

Kevin — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:45:07 +0000

As promised in the Ladies Rock Camp recap there is now video!

It was really great to see the girls rock out like this, I wish we all lived closer so that we could get together and…

JAM!

Spring Break ’09

Kevin — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:45:51 +0000

Spring Break has officially come and gone. I worked every single day at least 14 hours a day, and have quite a bit to show for it too.

It wasn’t all work however, we took Friday and Saturday and went to Oregon for some actual vacationing. First thing Friday went drove down to Tillamook, Oregon and went to the Tillamook Dairy and Cheese Factory.

It was pretty fun. We got to watch all the machinery in operation, which both Jennifer and I love doing. We sampled several different kinds of cheese and got some smokin’ deals on cheese in the store there. We bought two pounds of peppercorn cheddar for only $5! Of course we had to get some ice cream while we there too.

After Tillamook we headed back to I-5 and Portland. After checking in at the hotel we went to Powell’s “City of Books.” It’s a book store that covers an entire city block. It’s pretty darned awesome. We picked up a few and spent the evening at the hotel reading and hanging out.

On Saturday Brady swam for an hour or so in the hotel pool while I read and we headed off to VooDoo Doughnut. It is probably the single most amazing donut shop in the history of the world. Ever.

The box does not lie…

Right there you have the raspberry filled VooDoo man, the Tang, Grape Ape and NoName. Then there is the Triple Chocolate (with cocopuffs), Dirt (with Oreo bits), and the singularly most exquisite doughnut ever, the bacon maple bar. I’ll suffer the heart attack gladly.

After gorging on VooDoo we went to one of the craziest Putt-Putt courses I’ve ever seen. It was right in the middle of the city, tucked into the side and under a regular office building. It’s called Glowing Greens and it’s a black-light, 3D glasses, pirate wreck, reggae music themed extravaganza.

As the course goes, it was fairly easy. It was really the theme of the place that made it a worthwhile experience. I think they tried really hard to monetize every single thing they could think of, going so far as to sell mint patties in a glass case. The clubs and balls were all brand-new, which was great, it was just a wee bit basic of a course for my taste.

It would definitely make it into the book Jen and I want to write about putt-putt courses in the U.S. though…maybe someday.

That was it, back home for a few hours rest, and then back to work full-tilt on Sunday.

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