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The photoblogger gallery show that Tyd has been working on is going up this weekend at the White Dove Gallery in Lakewood, Washington. Tyd has gathered photos from eight Puget Sound-area photobloggers including herself, Jerry Kindall, John Poetzel, Chas Redmond, Dylan Wilbanks, Jeff Youngstrom, and me. The gallery is also showing work by three other photographers — Bob Carpmail, Tera Ruddel, and Tina Weston — and a sculptor, Bruce Salisbury.

If you’re interested, the opening reception will be August 21 from 2:00 pm and 4:30 pm, and the show will be up through October 16. The White Dove Gallery is located in Lakewood, Washington (south of Tacoma) at 5934 88th Street SW. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday 11am-5pm. Their phone number is (253)582-7859.

This odd construction, Ross Palmer Beecher‘s “Radio Flyer”, is the centerpiece of a group of sculptures on show right now at The Harbor Steps.

Radio Flyer is removed every evening at six and replaced with an orange cone with the word “security” written on it in black marker.

1994: Moved to Seattle.
[1997: Badly sunburned in San Francisco.]
1998: At the company picnic, it rained and the sun shined at the same time.
1999: Haircut.
2000: In Kyleakin, went to a pub hoping to run into a French-Canadian girl who had perfectly crooked teeth.
2002: Quick glimpse of two seals.
2003: Barbecued on a rooftop deck in Belltown.
[2004: David Byrne concert with Samantha.]

How about some photos?

The Broadway Market Theater’s marquee came down this week — more than two years after the theater lost its lease. It’s part of the construction for QFC – a grocery store that is moving in from its space across the street. The new QFC space is being carved out of the awkward two-level Fred Meyer space and a handful of other businesses that have been evicted from their storefronts.

Like QFC, Fred Meyer is a Kroger-owned chain. Both stores were acquired by Kroger — which now owns more than a dozen other regional grocery chains — in the late nineties. (Update: In the comments, Dylan reminds me that Fred Meyer acquired QFC before Kroger acquired Fred Meyer.)

I checked the company history timeline on the QFC website for the date of the QFC-Kroger transaction. But the timeline is actually a history of the Kroger grocery chain, with no description of QFC’s background or even a mention the QFC acquisition.

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The chain gym that took over the Theater’s space has remained open longer than I predicted. The introductory 50% off price for new memberships is apparently still being offered.

The old weblog entry that I linked in the first paragraph also mentioned the closing of the Green Cat Cafe. That closing turned out to be temporary. The Green Cat was reopened under the original management, and my understanding is that some of the employees were also later brought in as partners. But the Green Cat recently closed for good. It will reopen as “The Local Cafe” after a remodel is finished.

Some photos from the Scottish Games in Enumclaw on Sunday…

A mother at the grocery store says to her small son, “Do you want to get some cookies?”

He scans the shelves, something catches his eye. He makes a small “Oh” sound and reaches toward a box of fruit snacks.

His mother snaps at him, “I said cookies!”

I give a guy directions to the second closest bike shop. He rejected the barista’s directions to the closest shop — “No. I know about that one.” I see that he’s getting lost just thinking about my directions, so I start over, filling in landmarks and leaving out street names. He asks if the store fixes bikes. They do both — they sell and fix bikes. “Do they do unicycles?” “I don’t know.” He says “Thanks”, and I answer, “No problem,” but he doesn’t do anything. He stands in the same place and looks at me. He thanks me again, and I say, “Your welcome”. Then I notice that he’s holding up his fist for a “Hey, bro,”-style fist-tap. I make a fist and tap his knuckles and he walks off.

The barista says, “That guy looks familiar. I think I’ve seen him riding a really tall unicycle around.” “Yeah, he said something about a unicycle.” I give her the money for my tea and cookie. The Change is $1.75. She gives me the dollar and then holds her hand out over the tip jar. I reach out for the quarters, but she doesn’t hand them over. I figure that she’s gesturing toward the tip jar, since I usually put the lose change there. I nod, thinking, Sure, keep the change. But she keeps her hand in place and I realize that she’s waiting for a knuckle tap. I give her a tap and she hands over the quarters, “You still haven’t figured it out.”

The relatively holiday free August printable calendar is here. Whether you use the letter size or the ISO A4 format pages is entirely your own business. I wash my hands of the whole affair. But if you want to arrange your schedule around the UK Bank Holidays, the A4 version will serve you best.

I wonder, do people from Berwick-upon-Tweed (at war with Russia since 1853 because of a clerical oversight) get both Scottish and English Bank Holidays off? That would be nice for them.

Letter size (53 kb pdf for USA & Canada)
A4 format (53 kb pdf for Berwick, etc.)

The web form that I have to fill out to receive a complimentary magazine subscription calls for me to enter my name and my address. Then I get the opportunity to opt in for a couple of email newsletters and I’m asked for some demographic information. Then: “As an identifier please select eye color (this information is required by Macworld’s auditing company in lieu of a signature to prove your request of this free offer.)”