Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Nonfiction Up, Fiction Down
I got back from Issaquah late Monday night. I had a pleasant Thanksgiving with Brother Mike and his family. A few highlights:
Drive up: listened to Oliver Sacks' latest, Musicophilia, abridged. I enjoyed it, but much of it was familiar to me because I had read the stories in the New Yorker. I also stopped in Portland and had dinner with a friend from Craigslist.
Tiger Mountain: Mike, his friend Kevin, and I hiked up Tiger Mountain on Thanksgiving morning. Mike's training for an August 2008 climb on Mt. Rainier and already takes the hills like a mountain goat. The view from the top was terrific.
Seattle: On the day after Thanksgiving we drove to downtown Seattle. Mike and I went to Guitar Center for their early-morning sale (got what I came for, 20% off!), then we walked to Macy's to watch the annual Holiday parade. My niece and her Connect cheer team were in the parade, and Mike and I were on TV twice in the crowd. I enjoyed all the marching bands and counted the bari saxes. Mike and I went to Pike Place Market (for stocking stuffers) and the Sci Fi Museum after the parade.
Drive back: I stopped at Powell's -- you can't drive through Portland twice without stopping at least once, right? -- and bought Alan Furst's Dark Voyage on CD, abridged. I hadn't read this one, and enjoyed it, though the narrator's accent seemed pretty changeable for some of the characters. If you'd like to borrow it or the Oliver Sacks disc, let me know.
Drive up: listened to Oliver Sacks' latest, Musicophilia, abridged. I enjoyed it, but much of it was familiar to me because I had read the stories in the New Yorker. I also stopped in Portland and had dinner with a friend from Craigslist.
Tiger Mountain: Mike, his friend Kevin, and I hiked up Tiger Mountain on Thanksgiving morning. Mike's training for an August 2008 climb on Mt. Rainier and already takes the hills like a mountain goat. The view from the top was terrific.
Seattle: On the day after Thanksgiving we drove to downtown Seattle. Mike and I went to Guitar Center for their early-morning sale (got what I came for, 20% off!), then we walked to Macy's to watch the annual Holiday parade. My niece and her Connect cheer team were in the parade, and Mike and I were on TV twice in the crowd. I enjoyed all the marching bands and counted the bari saxes. Mike and I went to Pike Place Market (for stocking stuffers) and the Sci Fi Museum after the parade.
Drive back: I stopped at Powell's -- you can't drive through Portland twice without stopping at least once, right? -- and bought Alan Furst's Dark Voyage on CD, abridged. I hadn't read this one, and enjoyed it, though the narrator's accent seemed pretty changeable for some of the characters. If you'd like to borrow it or the Oliver Sacks disc, let me know.
