Bone House living room and Tommy learning to fix a flat tire.
Emily giving Eric a haircut and Eric in his Geo.
Last weekend Emily and I went to Discovery Park and sat on the beach waiting for the sun to come out from behind a cloud. It was nice even though the sun stayed behind the cloud. It was clear so you could see Mt. Rainer, it's in the background in this picture.
We have this cool balcony, here's Brandon, Bean, Eric, Emily and Tommy doing their Beatles impression. A long time ago Emily started to make a Settlers of Catan game and Becca, Eric, Rosie, Tommy and I finished it over the weekend. This picture is of the end of our first game. I think we need to make a few more land tiles but other than that it's great.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Bone House Pix
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Friday Night Hike
Friday, July 1, 2011
Bone House
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Things that happened recently
Becca and I recorded a little bit while I was in San Francisco but unfortunately I got sick and we didn't get much that we liked down. I think she is going to come visit Seattle in about a week but everything will be really busy around then, hopefully we get a chance to do a few songs.
It's gonna be crazy because we are getting ready to move out of the Yellow House. I started taking down the wall made of crates in my room today, it's really sturdy and soundproof so it's cool to see how it looks inside:
I have been having a lot of bike problems recently. A few weeks ago my front derailer broke but I never used the big cog in the front very much so I just took it off. I also got a few flat tires in a row and had to replace the tube because the valve stem was broken and then on Friday I broke a spoke on my way home. I got a new spoke yesterday and got the freewheel off to put it on. I trued my wheel somewhat but some of the spokes are frozen and so I can't get it as true as I would like. I'm riding about 70 miles a week just coming to and from work so probably I should be checking everything out more often so I don't have as many problems.
Also, Emily's Final Line show was last week, I forgot to bring my camera but here is a picture that was in her school newsletter, that is her display on the right. She is done with school now for the summer and got her apparel design degree.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Travelin' Songs
I haven't had anything to post for a while because I've been pretty busy working at Luna and working on other projects. My friend Brendan's book that I'm working on to publish through Phone Booth Press is almost done being edited so hopefully that will come out soon. Also Jessica and I are maybe planning to try to work together in July on The Borough of Blackwell so that it can also come out soon.
I'm also working on a record with my friend Becca. I hopefully will be able to finish it before I move out of the Yellow House in June. We are going to record vocals while I'm in San Francisco next week for Mariah's graduation. Here is a demo of one of the songs we wrote that we recorded back in January:
Becca and Pat - No Lookin' Back by Patrick Weaver
We don't have a name for our band yet so I guess we'll have to come up with that before we put anything out too!
Monday, May 2, 2011
Sunny Day Weekend
I had a really busy weekend and it was sunny the whole time! On Friday night Rosie and I went to go see tune-yards all the way downtown. It was really great and we were both surprised at how excited everyone was. Then early on Saturday morning Emily helped me move into the yellow house. We ran a few errands and then it was shaping up to be a really nice day so we biked with Tommy down to a park by my old house and met up with Eric.
Then we decided to go get pizza and while we were waiting for Rosie, Jen and Bean to meet up with us we went to my old house for one last ride on the quad-bike. We rode it around the top of the hill a few times, past a bunch of kids at a birthday party (?) a few times, they were really excited about it. Riding it around puts everyone that sees you in a good mood, everyone just seems to love it. Then we rode down the hill a little bit to Pizza Pi where everyone else was.
Sunday was sunny again! The weather predictions were saying it would be 100° but it didn't get quite that high. I think at one point I saw a thermometer that said 87 but I'm not sure. Emily and I went to the park again, this time to Gasworks park where there a bunch of old metal structures. There were tons of people out there for fun in the sun.
Now it's rainy again but I think that it should be getting sunnier and sunnier which is all the more great because of how long the days are.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Sandals
It's been a busy week because I started working at my friends' sandal company! They make sandals for 'barefoot' running. Their website is here: http://lunasandals.com/
Most of the sandals are just a piece of rubber, sometimes a leather footbed and a lace, elastic, leather or hemp. They look like this:
I am moving into the Yellow house on May 1st and my new housemate Tommy also is working at Luna, by the start of the summer I hope to be able to beat him and his car to work on my bike! Next week the sun will come up for the first time before 6am and it's already going down after 8! It's great!
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
826 Seattle
I started volunteering this week at 826 Seattle which is a part of the same organization as 826 Valencia in San Francisco. The location in San Francisco is a combination pirate supply store and youth writing center, the location in Seattle is a combination space travel supply store and youth writing center. Yesterday I volunteered with the Mr. Geoduck field trip where a class of, this week 2nd graders, come in and collaboratively write a book that we then publish. All in 2 hours and each kid gets to take home a book.
Yesterday I was part of the team that was putting together the books and then I was in charge of putting them in the binding machine which was fun. Next week is spring break so there's no field trip but the week after I'll be doing it again. I also got trained yesterday to volunteer to work in the store. The store sells everything you'd need (except for maybe a rocket ship and fuel I guess) to plan your very own adventure to the moon. Let me know if you need anything! All the proceeds from the store go to support the writing programs that go on in the back.
Also here is a picture of a dinosaur garden Rosie and I found last week:
Monday, March 21, 2011
Biking Around Town
Over the past few weeks I keep thinking of things to write on the blog about but by the time I get around to writing about them I never seem to remember exactly what I wanted to say. My parents did get me a new camera for 'christmas' last week so I will probably be posting more pictures now that I have that. Also I have made a goal to get myself to start doing more activity like things which always leads to crafty blog posts.
Today I told my grandma I'd write about how I have been biking around more than ever here. I made this map, on the left, of my most common route: from my house, on the right, to the yellow house:
Because I would rather not pay for the bus I have been biking everywhere I have to go. My house is in a very central location so I can get pretty much anywhere North of downtown Seattle in less than 45 minutes which is not too bad. I had my first flat tire of the year this morning so I patched the tube and put the tire back on (with a little strong finger help from Emily) and was on my way!
I have also been working on a few other things like a website for my friend Rosie, right now it is at rosiewilsonbriggs.blogspot.com but soon to be rosiewilsonbriggs.com I think. Also I have been working with my friend Brendan on a book he wrote that we might publish soon and with Jessica on our next children's book.
Monday, February 21, 2011
February
Hey, it seems like February is almost over, the weather has been getting nicer here but maybe this week we're in for some more cold and maybe snow? I am moved into my new house which is nice. I have a job interview on Wednesday for a position with a bike non-profit but it is only part time so I am still looking for other things. Tomorrow I will bike down to Pike Place and turn in a resume there.
Last week Bonnie came and visited me at the Yellow house and we took a long bus ride together to crazy land. We had fun all day.
On Saturday I went down to Portland with my friend Emily for the day to go to a very very large fabric store there. They had pretty much every fabric ever. I wish that we had gotten the wackiest print there so that Emily could make some scrubs for Rosie to wear to work at her new vet assistant job but I didn't think of it until right now!
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