Showing Yngvar Around, Days 2 and 3

Not too terribly much exciting in the way of touristy things yesterday, showing ravyyngyngvar around, because I had to spend most of the morning downtown having job interviews. (Of which I think it is hard to say as per usual about how it went. I had three perfectly amiable conversations and I think I did a good job demonstrating to the guy asking me the "tech" questions that I have more than the average quotient of clues, and the third person didn't know what to say to me at ALL so I wound up just yakking with him about my testing experience, about music, and about the interesting and controversial things going on with music moving into the online realm. But I really didn't get much of a feel as to whether I've definitely got that job, and as of this entry my recruiter hasn't called me jumping up and down saying they want me, either. So.)

But we did go down to the Lake Forest Park shops yesterday for a bit of lunch (barbecue sandwiches, which I think were pretty satisfyingly American), and I picked up a copy of Peter Mayle's A Good Year. Which I would not have ordinarily even thought of buying, except this is the novel that's supposed to be Russell Crowe's next movie. And he did well getting me to read Patrick O'Brian, so I figured, what the hell, I might like this book too. ;)

Today, however, we had a lot more touristy goodness what with heading downtown to have the Underground Tour. Yngvar amusedly summarized his experience with this as "fun, educational, and damp". Me, I was amused to discover exactly how much of an impact sewage, sawdust, and (aheh) "seamstresses" have had on the history of Seattle. The tour guide diligently hawked copies of Sons of the Profits and Doc Maynard: The Man Who Invented Seattle, both of which were written by the original founder of the tour. We already had a copy of the first book, so I picked up a copy of the latter for both my amusement and Dara's, and Yngvar picked up a copy of the former.

We did not, unfortunately, have time to head up onto the Smith Tower observational deck, but we are still expecting to head downtown again at least once more this week to hit Pike Place Market, so we may still be able to do that too.

Monday miles: 2.0 (walking)
Tuesday miles: 5.4 (treadmill + walking)
Miles out of Hobbiton: 480.6
Miles out of Rivendell: 22.6
Miles to Lothlórien: 439.4

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