One of Kona’s favorite activities
We took her to Olympia yesterday. It was her longest ever car ride and she was very good, slept much of the way. When we got to town we had to leave her in the car while we went to lunch, poor baby. But after we ate we took her out and walked her around my old college town. She was pretty excited and freaked out about being in such a totally foreign environment. But overall was a very good girl as usual.
I visited my old pal Quitty at Orca bookstore. What a rad bookstore it is, too. I could spend a lot of time in there. Good mix of new and used, lots of obscure stuff, very large, and just a great vibe. I used to shop there when I was 19, too.
I was impressed by how (obviously) Olympia is a billion times cooler than the town where we live. For example, they have Indian food. In fact they have a huge variety of places to eat and drink and shop in the relatively tiny downtown. I didn’t appreciate Oly as much as I should have years ago; I was too young and dumb and obsessed at the time with retarded punk rock shit. But it’s a pretty awesome little college town, beautiful even. We should visit more often, and try next time to go when there *isn’t* a major fair or festival in town, as has accidentally happened to us the last two times we’ve gone.
Okay. I’m off to enjoy a hard-boiled egg, then clean the house a bit, and walk el puppo in the sunshine.
Kona looks so excited! Fun!
Jane, I think we were all involved with retarded punk rock shit at that age. I’d rather a curry these days, myself.
Make sure to tell Quitty that you are pals with one of his obsessed super-fans; I was rocking the Tight Bros in the car last week!
I will! And some inside info for you, he told me that they were just asked by TGI Friday’s of all places to use one of their songs in a commercial! Isn’t that nuts? They agreed — money is tight, man. I need to ask him when I should expect to see it on the air.