Lemonhead

Big Ern had his first taste of a lemon slice today.

He made some very funny faces. I'll give him credit though, he took 4 or 5 bites of it before deciding that it wasn't for him. I was proud of him for his perseverance.

My enthusiasm for Elysian Brewing has only grown since moving to Seattle. It sits at the crossroads of my current Seattle fun times and my previous St. Louis Anheuser-Busch fun times. A-B is doing what it does best and beating the heck out of the popular Space Dust brand by releasing 40 additional variants, the latest being Juice Dust. It was juicy.

Lake Strollington

We took a little stroll to Lake Washington today.

Exploring the Apartment

Ern did some good crawling around the house and exploring/making big messes today.

I don't generally let Ernie watch tv but these days remotes just have a big "Netflix" button on them that instantly transports you to autoplaying clips of shows. I'm going to have to start hiding the remote.

Croatian on Mercer

Today we did something a bit out of the ordinary and had dinner on Mercer Island. This time we chose Pogacha. I was excited when I read the menu and saw that Pogacha is a Croatian word meaning "soft, chewy flatbread". So I was honor bound to order some.

We got some goat cheese to dip the bread in.

I ordered the lamb shank.

I finished the game I was playing, Outer Wilds. It was a masterpiece made by an indie company. The gameplay had mysteries and involved time and physics, but there was also a lot of genuine interaction with fun characters.

Bees and Beers

Today's highlight was checking out my friend Roger's drone race at Watts Brewing Company in Woodinville, Washington.

It was actually really cool. They had set up sort of an obstacle course that tiny little drones had to traverse. Each drone had a tiny camera mounted on top and each racer had a virtual reality-looking headset that they used to see a drone's eye view. 

To add to the futuristic vibe to the whole thing one of the guys used his 3d printer to make race awards.

Not only was it a brewery but it had an insect theme! The place was devoted to mason bees. You could order a nest of them and host them at your house.

Much of the woodwork in the bar was constructed out of the wooden beehives.