John came out and visited us last weekend (thank you for visiting!). Lots of fun things! Brian even took the whole weekend off to be with John. Brunch at Glo's, hanging out at Gas Works Park, visiting the U-District, and playing frisbee in Volunteer Park. And the Red Sox won the World Series! We watched the games last weekend. We finally found THE place in Seattle to watch Red Sox games with lots of fans.

As some of you know, my boss at Team Survivor Northwest is no longer on staff. It's a big hole and the rest of us are trying to fill it. I'm now a grant writer. The writing is fairly straight forward but the budget items are confusing. Every foundation wants different information and gives each category a different, ridiculous name (like "off-site out of pocket expenses" instead of "printing and mailing costs"). I'm writing two and I'll let you know how that goes.

The running is going well. We did a big chunk of the course last weekend. The course is beautiful. You run from the space needle, through downtown, across Lake Washington (on I-90 express lanes), along Lake Washington for about 10 miles, up through an old, peaceful wooded area, around a mansion district, and back to the space needle. It is a bit hilly but nothing too dramatic. The biggest hill is much, much shorter than my walk to the bus stop every morning.

Don't forget to turn your clocks back on Sunday.