For you Seattle blog readers who live in, close to, or (in my case) work in the city that Microsoft built, the Seattle Times has a new blog dedicated solely to Bellevue happenings.
You’d be hard pressed to find anyone in Jasper who say anything negative about Mr. (Coach… I can never not call him Coach) Gambrell. Sad day for WHS:
Danny Gambrell, a lifelong educator and longtime principal at Walker High School, submitted his letter of resignation Monday afternoon, according to Jasper City Schools Superintendent Robert Sparkman.

Per my update… best meal I’ve ever had.
- [Appetizer]
Columbia City Bread, nicoise olives & butter
[Entrees]
Copper River Sockeye Salmon
lentil salad, walnuts, pickled shallots & chervil
Oregon Country Ribeye Steak
roasted in a skillet with oil cured olive tapenade, grilled Walla Walla onion & roasted potato
[Wine]
Domaine de la Petite Cassagne, Costieres de Nimes Rose, France, 2007
My favorite Mad Men on Twitter message is by Sally Draper about Glen Bishop:
Why is @Glen_Bishop just staring at my mom? He is sooooooooo creepy
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Via The Onion:
After receiving the device intended to alert him when his family’s table at the Cheesecake Factory was ready, local father Timothy Reardon traversed the parking lots of adjacent businesses with the pager Tuesday to determine its range. “I’ll bet I can get all the way behind the Barnes & Noble, no problem,” …
Mad Men on Twitter.
(Sorry about the title of this post… it was the best I could do.)
@bettydraper
@_dondraper (not to be confused with @dondraper)
@sally_draper
@roger_sterling
@peggyolson
It was wonderful to walk down the long flights of stairs knowing that I’d had good luck working. I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day. But sometimes when I was started on a new story and I could not get going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, “Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.” So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there. It was easy then because there was always one true sentence that I knew or had seen or had heard someone say. If I started to write elaborately, or like someone introducing or presenting something, I found that I could cut the scrollwork or ornament out and throw it away and start with the first true simple declarative sentence I had written.- Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
In a national study released today, Seattle placed third on a list of major U.S. cities in which Americans would like to live, topped only by Denver and San Diego.
Each time I eat a Southern Style Chicken Sandwhich at McDonald’s, I feel like I’m cheating on Chick-fil-A.

Even if the topic of ‘vampires in 2019′ doesn’t intrigue you, this preview is amazing.
Authorities said a couple got into a fight using Cheetos. The Bedford County Sheriff’s Department said a 40-year-old man and 44-year-old woman became involved in a ‘verbal altercation.’ Somehow, the orange puffy snacks were used in the assault.Deputies said they were charged with domestic assault. No one was hurt.
According to the Shelbyville Times-Gazette, both posted bond of $2,500.
Football field gets a new drainage system.
Remember the good ol days when the stands went all the way down to field level, and the kids would play in the grassy area between the stands and the fence?
Our compay golf game didn’t end until 10 PM.
I got home at 11:20.
I will be arriving at the office at 6:30 AM for a conference call.
…goes without saying that I feel nothing like the weird animals in the image below.




