Crab Fest 2008 & a bit of Randomness

Here's to hoping that we're able to make the Crab Festival this year.  We went last year and had a pretty danged good time, even with the rain.  This time around will be a bit odd because of the lack of a place to automatically stay.  We've got plenty of places we could crash.  It'll just be weird having to actually look for a place to hang out for the weekend.  I don't know, either way I'm stoked.  I'll be anxious to check out the beaches and maybe take Isabelle tide-pooling (one of my favorite things to do as a kid).  Also.  Long live the St. Mary's burger.  I missed out on it last year.  It won't happen again!

I was looking over the pictures from last year's visit to Kodiak and was laughing at how much Kodiak hasn't changed since I was a kid.  Sure, there are a few more paved roads and there are some old businesses that are no longer there (as well as some new ones), but it's still the same old Kodiak.  (Well, with more police.  Don't get me started on that one.)  It's still the kind of place where you take your shoes off when you walk into your neighbor's house.  It's still the kind of place where it's ok to speak your mind and it's even still the kind of place where it's alright to spank your kids in public.

It's small town and because of that, it has this enormous charm to it.  It's obnoxious how expensive it is (face it, it's expensive because they can) and it's annoying that you can't live there and expect to have any decent living unless you're in a pretty specialized field.  I guess that's the incentive of education or to know the right person in the right place at the right time.  Right?

Well, that, or you're fishing, which is something I'd like to do again.  Of course it was always funny to me how we all hated being out on the boat during the season but couldn't wait to get back to it about two weeks after being home.  I would have also liked to have tried (does that make sense?) working on the slope.  Call me crazy.  I guess it's because I'm one of those I'll try anything once types of people.  (-:

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People Crack Me Up

Just a quick rant. :)

So this morning I'm on my way into work. I'm on I-5 heading down the hill (called "the Tukwila hill") and this freakin' crazy head case in a green Toyota something or rather (Corolla or Tercel .. maybe even a Camry) zooms in in front of me. This isn't atypical, however, what happened next was sweet revenge (side note: I suffer from road rage :)). So we merge onto I-405 and I'm thinking, "Sweet! I can totally get ahead of her and repay the favor! Gertie (Short for "Gertrude" -- my 2004 Subaru Forester X) won't let me down!

So we head down past Renton and out of nowhere this guy in this late 70's (I'm only guessing - I'm not familiar with the cars) El Camino comes roaring up out of NOwhere. By this time, I've made my way around the Toyota and am steaming along at a strong 15 mph (I LOVE the ridiculous traffic here. Put me out of my misery and stab me in the neck. Please).

So.

She gets (the Toyota) RIGHT up on my rear end, to block the older Chevy from merging ... typical jackass maneuver practiced down here in the "friendly NW". So anyways. I look forward to make sure I'm not going to cause a larger traffic jam by all of the people who would have to stop and look in case I rear-end the white Chevy van in front of me and I hear this "beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep! beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!" and I turn to look back and the Toyota is literally sideways at about a 45 degree in the lane and the Chevy has made it's way in between the two of us. Apparently he pulled an anti-block move and just merged, obviously not caring about his car and knowing how the woman would react. I wanted to give the guy a thumbs-up for treating an obvious jackass like, well, a jackass (the woman) but I just smiled and continued onto work.

Gotta love Seattle people. Hell, you have to. They're EVERYwhere down here!

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Okay, I'll see how this goes. Stay tuned, or don't for that matter.