View of field from skybox

I am posting this from inside a skybox at Qwest Stadium in Seattle.  MD and I have been up here for a few days and have been unbelievably busy the entire time.  We’ve had a little time for fun, but not much.  One meeting after an other for the last three days.  Plus, we haven’t had reliable internet service and my Blackberry is on the fritz.  My thumbball won’t work and I’m not going to be able to get it fixed until I get to Dallas tomorrow.  I can use the phone part, but can’t scroll to get emails or get online.  So, my comment answering and emailing have all been hamstrung for the past few days.

We landed in a snowstorm in Seattle on Thursday and have been battling the weather since.  Here is a photo of the Pike Place Market in the snow last night.

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Squeeze In, Truckee, California

If you ever make it up Lake Tahoe way, make sure to have breakfast at the Squeeze In, a little restaurant in Truckee, California.  MD and I run over to Truckee at least once a week for our Squeeze In hit, and this week was no exception.  After voting on empty stomachs we drove to Truckee, an old railroad town about 13 miles from our house and a stone’s throw from where the Donner party holed up for the winter of 1846/47 and ate one another.

The Squeeze In, as you can see from the photo above, is a tiny hole-in-the-wall restaurant ’squeezed in’ between a number of other businesses on Truckee’s main drag.  It doesn’t have many tables, and there is often a wait, but the breakfasts are out of this world.  Especially the omelets, which are world class. And huge.  MD and I have our favorites, but yesterday we decided – in honor of the Donners, perhaps – to be adventurous.  We each selected an omelet that we had never had, and were rewarded for our culinary courage.  And selecting omelets is no easy task at the Squeeze In because there are at least 80 of them, and all of them are good.  (If you go to their website you can take a look at the menu, which is old.  They have at least double the number of omelets now that they did when this menu was put up.  In fact, the omelets that we had aren’t even on their menu from the website.  In case you’re wondering, MD usually has the Racy Tracey and I have the Dierdoni.)

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Fresh salmon at the market about 100 feet from our hotel

MD and I are in Seattle right now working on a project that may revolutionize the world.  I’m not kidding.  Can’t talk about it yet, but that’s what we’re up here doing.  We’ve been working from early morning until late at night since we’ve been here, so I apologize for the lack of attention to this blog.  I simply haven’t had the time to deal with it.

There are a number of comments languishing in the purgatory of comments awaiting moderation.  I’ll get to them as quickly as I can.  At the latest, we’ll be back on home ground tomorrow, and I’ll deal with them then.  Hope to be able to do so before, however.

Double cut pork chop from Trump room service (click to enlarge)

MD and I had to come to Las Vegas – a place we both hate – for a conference.  We looked around for the best deal we could get on a hotel, and we found it at the Trump.  We went ahead and booked, figuring that it was going to be just like all the other hotels in Las Vegas.

We were wrong.

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