Big Blue Friday

12s OF MANY COLORS: We made our weekly pilgrimage to the Seattle suburb of Kent to grocery shop at WinCo today (so much cheaper than any Seattle store!). We just so happened to time it so that we'd be in Kent right when one of the Seahawks' official Blue Friday rallies would be taking place.

We found a parking spot about five blocks away and hot (well cold, actually) footed it to Kent Square. There, a small (maybe 300) but enthusiastic crowd was on hand to cheer on their favorite NFL team.

A small plane circled overhead with a big 12 banner trailing

 The next two photos make it look like it was all sunny, warm and blue skies ... 

 But the truth of the matter was, the afternoon was actually quite foggy, and borderline freezing.

It seemed like ever third person at the rally today had a dog in tow, including this guy and his chihuahua.

 And there was this guy with his ... wait ... that's no dog ...

 It's a man. In a kilt. With a cat. In a headdress.

 I don't even ... 

I have several more photos of this cat and I'm going to tell you that in every one this cat's eyes are closed. I'm thinking the cat was either paralyzed, drugged or stuffed. I'm leaning toward stuffed, but Annabelle swears she saw its paws move. ...

Speaking of paws ... or should I say wings? ... Blitz was on hand!

 And some Seagals shook their tail feathers.

 Seahawks alum Jordan Babineaux made an appearance ... 

 as did Marcus Trufant.

The VIPs arrived in a fancy bus!

Hopefully none of the VIPs stepped in the Great Dane sized pile of poo Annabelle sunk into in this spot. Good times! Poo Friday! Go Hawks!

BIRTHDAY BOYS:  January 8th is always notable to us, as three of our favorite people: Elvis Presley, David Bowie and Stephen Hawking were born on this day.

We started our day by heading over to Top Pot Doughnuts in Ballard and getting the kids a King Ring! It was an amazing raised doughnut covered in maple glaze and a generous amount of bacon.

I had one micro bite, but I will swear that it was, hands down, the finest doughnut I've ever tasted. And I'm old. :)

We spent several hours today with Bowie as our soundtrack thanks to local radio station KEXP observing Intergalactic Bowie Day by playing songs from the Bowie catalog between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. They also played other artists covering Bowie songs, tunes by artists Bowie worked with, was influenced by or whom he influenced. All in all twelve hours of amazing music.

IT'S ALL GREEK: We've had an art project going on for a couple plus weeks now, sewing a couple dozen muslin banners and then installing art work on them (via a steady hand and really fat Sharpies). They're coming together quite nicely, we think. They'll be used as part of the set for a play CJ is in later this month. 

DECODED: As noted in yesterday's blog post, we visited the Living Computer Museum last night. While there, Annabelle solved an ASCII puzzle.

And she even knows what a Xerox Alto is, thanks to our frequent LCM visits.