Last of the city

[bill_schubert]

Another walk today.  Scooter to the top of the hill near the Space Needle.  Walk down to bottom of Pike's Market and then another scooter back to the top of the Market so I could look at a couple of different places.  Ended up walking 3 miles but it felt like more.  Out of practice.

Graffiti referencing the desire of some people to get rid of tech in Seattle.

Needle behind the pottery

This is an active pottery workshop, the kind I wished I lived near.

My personal aversion to approaching people kept me from walking around and asking questions. This is the inside of the pottery studio.

This tent camping on the sidewalk in line for an apartment.

Waiting for clearance and people.

Amazing ships floating hotels.  Hard to believe these things can go across the ocean.

A Seattle special message

Back home now resting my feet.

Comments

[taz-39.livejournal.com]

The ship gave me nostalgia for my time on one in 2019.
Someday I want to visit Seattle. A cruise seems like a good way to hit that and Alaska.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

No more huge ships for me. But Seattle is a great city to visit. Lots of curious things and people.

[spacefem.livejournal.com]

BIG BOAT!

I'd look at that sticker and think it's encouraging tech workers to practice healthy work-life balance. is Seattle against them? I cannot even DREAM of what my state would do if we had an industry like that!

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

Got to have something to bitch about. Here is info on it. (https://www.google.com/search?q=go+home+tech+bro&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS916US916&oq=go+h&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j46i433j0j0i131i433j69i60l3.1265j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)

Seattle is awash in bizarre declarations.

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

Not that after watching the Throwdown I would ever try pottery as it looks so difficult, but nevertheless that studio looks like a fun place to be.

The modern cruise ship/plague palace, with its massive superstructure to cram in as many cabins as possible, always looks to me unnervingly like the Swedish warship the Vasa. In 1628 it got 1,500 yards into its maiden voyage, heeled over and sank like a stone. I saw it in 1991 in Stockholm (it was constantly being drenched in fluid at the time, which was pretty spectacular, but has been dried out/preserved since then) and I was struck by the size and squareishness of the superstructure. Sure enough, it turned out that its centre of gravity had been too high. I've sure they've done a better job on modern cruise ships, but they still look worryingly top-heavy to me.

[howeird]

There's a hill near the Space Needle? Hmm. Maybe Queen Anne, but I never have associated it with the Seattle Center. But yeah, if you roll down that hill you hit the opera house.

Many of my theater friends are happy to see the cruise ships — they had good jobs on them before the plague hit.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

Exactly where I was. Top of Queen Anne.

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

What's been your favorite moment on this visit to see Susan?

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure there is one in particular. I cherish the time I have with her. We didn't speak much but for one weekend when I visited her in college and then not again until she was a witness in my marriage. And then not much until my father died and we started working together with mom. But from then on she has been my second closest relationship after my wife. We talk by half a dozen different means all day every day so meeting up IRL is such a treat.
And visiting Seattle is like visiting distant family. I love it all the more for not having to put up with it longer than a couple of weeks a year. All the good without much of the bad. I really loved living in New York City so being able to stay downtown in any city is a treat. And knowing that Susie spends the in between months planning where we're going to eat, what we're going to do, makes it all the more special.

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

How absolutely wonderful!

[stainsteelrat.livejournal.com]

Go home tech bro... that's hilarious!