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Can you believe that after almost 3 years of living in Renton (and being a self-professed techno geek), I had never been to Fry's? I'm telling you, I have been deprived. At any rate, Erick finally got me there on Sunday night. We were there to buy a Squeezebox Boom, which we are enjoying as I type! It's a rather neat little toy. I particularly like that I can lie here in bed and change the station, volume, etc through my laptop instead of having to futz with the remote. It even has an alarm clock and a sleep timer! I quite enjoy it. At some point we might upgrade to the Squeezebox Duet, but for right now this is great.

Due to some unfortunate circumstances involving my big toe and mean doctors, we missed the DTR Block Party on Friday night. That was very sad, because I had really been wanting to go. Anybody out there go? How was it? I'm hoping there will be more to come. We also spaced the date for our own neighborhood picnic and missed out on the Renton Hill gathering. Some days I think we'd both wander around and bump into things if we didn't kick each other's butts into gear. :)

My latest Renton obsession has to be the Gorgonzola fries at the Williams Street Pub downtown. Those things are so good, they make me want to lick the plate. What about it, internets? What's your favorite Renton obsession of the moment?

Kris

Fishes in trouble

The pump/filter on my aquarium recently went out. It was a great filter (a BioWheel), but getting it primed was always an issue. During the last water change, it never was able to restart. As a result, I had a number of my fishes die. I'm now in the slow process of rebuilding the tank, and I have to say that the people at Pet Smart at the Landing have been very helpful! Normally, I am highly disappointed with big box pet stores, but the folks at Pet Smart are bucking the trend. Another nice thing about our fair city... quality big box stores?

However, I do wish there was a locally owned fish store that I could frequent...

Just dropping by.

Since Erick was so kind to introduce me, I thought I would stop in quickly and say hello.

So...hello!

I haven't lived in Renton as long as Erick has, so I am still discovering pieces of it that I didn't know existed. I was driving home the other day and noticed that the Renton Civic Theatre has a production of Forever Plaid starting on Sept. 4! This thrilled me beyond belief, since it is one of my favorite musicals (I have already seen it 3 times, but that's ok). I'm excited that my first visit to the theater will be for this show. Y'all should see it. It's a fun, high-energy, fantastic show!

Now if only Erick hadn't just mentioned Naan ~n~ Curry to me. I haven't been ever, and now I'm craving Palak Paneer at 11:30 PM!

Back from grave

It's been a while, but I've decided to revive this blog. I still live in Renton, but I now live on Renton Hill, which is an awesome little community just across the freeway from downtown. If you don't know about it, it would be hard to find... whenever someone comes to visit, I have to give *very* specific directions. :-)

In order to keep this blog alive and kicking, I introduce Kris, who will be helping me maintain this blog. She is an awesome girl, and is coming to love our home at the south end of the lake as much as I do. She will be posting here, as will I. With all the exciting new things happening downtown, we shouldn't lack for material!

We just saw District 9 down at the Landing. To be honest, I was a little iffy about the Landing when it was under construction. I was afraid that it was going to be a horrid strip mall type of place (a la most of the area around South Center), which would have been a waste of some of the best land in the area. We are lucky that it was developed much better than that, and includes a nice new theatre which seems to be doing quite well. And if you like Sci-Fi, or just a good movie, go see District 9! I just wished that they showed some independent movies as well. Perhaps someday....

Erick