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NUMBER 14: Today was so, SO busy! The kids each had classes, and I had an hour long meeting to lead, a 1.5 hour meeting to attend, and a two hour diversity training session to attend. That, coupled with running kids to and fro their classes, it was one of those days choreographed in 5-minute increments.
After we got all of our work out of the way, it was supposed to be time for play, specifically at GameWorks and then dinner at Lunchbox Laboratory.
Yeah, well, a few wildcards thrown in. First up, three Seattle Police Department officers were shot downtown today during a stupid robbery of a 7-Eleven store. :( Horrible, terrible, awful. Ugh. One of the three suspects is a 17-year old girl. Her suspected accomplices are 19-year-old males. :( They reportedly stole beer ("an effing case of Heineken, of all things to shoot cops over" as one bystander reported) from the store before they were chased out by a clerk, and when they were confronted shortly thereafter by SPD officers, the shootings ensued.
Naturally, that incident led to multiple streets being shut down and so getting around town was challenging, to say the least.
That said, it was still CJ's birthday, and so we tried to carry on.
We were going to meet Kennedy at Game Works. He beat us there by a bunch and reported the place closed, for a private party. The whole, enormous, cavernous place closed. Wow. Couldn't have predicted that. So we're all stuck in crime scene traffic, Game Works is closed, and now what?
We eventually just rebooted and went to Lunchbox Laboratory for an early dinner.
So all in all, not a bad outcome for Mr. CeeJ, and he understands that Taco Bell and Game Works can come on another day.
More than anything, we sure hope the police officers are OK.
Generally speaking, what a sad day for Seattle.
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