Victrola

After having great smoked salmon with an organic bagle with the onion and chive mixed cream cheese for a breakfast, we left Uncle Mike’s around 9 am. Arrived at the Convention Center at 10ish and for the first time, I had a chance to walk around.
I would say this is a pretty unique type of a conference because people attending this conference are mainly male. Probably about 70%. Lots of people are in casual cloths like jeans, and some people pretty much dressed up with ties and shiny shoes. So the contrast of the dress codes is so clear.
Akinori is somewhat semi-formaly dressed. He picked one of two semi-formal shirts I bought him from Ralph Lauren for our first anniversary in June. He looks not overdressed and not underdressed either, and I think that’s really nice.
First we went to a room called “speaker ready room.” The oral presenters can go there to see how their powerpoint slides turned out on the computers the GSA prepared. Akinori checked his slides there and made a bit of changes. I thought his slides looked terrific. And then I went to the Seattle Public Library just across the road and sat down to do some of my works. I made it, I did not go to a cafe to do this!
Met up with Akinori for lunch on the first floor of the Convention Center at noon. We went to the Pacific Place and had hamburgers and shakes at the Johnny Rockets. Then we went down to the Barns and Noble Bookstore to browse some books and to have a cup of coffee. This is the first caffeine I’m having today, so it should be OK, I told myself (oops, I had a cup of earl gray tea this morning and who says I know that tea has more caffeine than coffee has?). Then wishing him a great deal of luck, I waved him and came to the 15th on the Capitol Hill. Here is a nice coffee house, “Victrola.” Though it is middle of a day on Monday, there are so many people. I almost gave up to find a table, but I waited for a couple of minutes because Victrola has a wireless internet inside. This is the big reason why I came here. Fortunately someone really nice told me that she was leaving so I’m here typing this and having an 8 oz coffee. Shame on me, this is the third cup of caffeine I’m having today.