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I had a nice trip to Seattle last week. It was really for work purposes, they were sending me to F5 LTM training, but I knew I\'d be able to make it into a fun vacation as well. I had no plans when going there, but that rarely stops me from having a good time.
{.alignleft width="206" height="155"}](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2477/3764437904_fc44ac5ff2.jpg)Thanks to Twitter, and my blog, you\'re able to see a step by step recap of my whole trip by accessing my
Twitter archive page for the week
. It\'s really pretty cool, check it out!
I did the tourist thing, went up into the Space Needle, but that\'s kind of where that ended.
I hung out with
and had some drinks. We chatted about some of our ideas we\'re working on, and he\'s doing
{.alignright width="223" height="168"}](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3476/3764415304_a63f5fe912.jpg)some great stuff. Really exciting. He also was kind enough to give me a ride over to the Sunset Tavern as I had planned on seeing Mark Mallman that night there. Mallman puts on a great show, so I was excited to see him again.
Spent that night at the Sunset and talked to some pretty cool people. A girl I met, Betty, wanted me to email her the photos I took.=> http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2569/3764439956_2c47e6c0fc.jpg  Plus it\'s always fun to try the local brews of the area :)
Then I talked to @=> http://www.twitter.com/zria zria and she told me about the Capitol Hill Block Party, a music festival going on. So Friday night I went there and met up with her. The block party was pretty sweet. Lots of great music and I got to mingle with my type of people. The local music crowd. Afterward she gave me a tour of the Capitol Hill area and then brought me to Shorty\'s. A bar that has a room full of awesome pinball machines. It was a really great time.
The next day she brought me to Pike Place Market and I saw some dudes throw fish around. We ate over a place overlooking the market, and got some yummy coffee. We hung out in a cool local record store in the Queen Anne hood and later got pizza there.
There was a lot of neat stuff that I saw when there. The first Starbucks, so much good coffee, little stores and restaraunts, you get the idea. Typical local stuff in a big city. But I was lucky to time the trip around the block party and be able to see a lot of music when I was there. Built to Spill and Deerhunter were performing as well as local bands I never would have heard of otherwise. Very cool.
As I was there for work purposes, I had class Tues-Fri, 8-5. It was a really go=> http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2430/3763632299_c035bd75c4.jpg od class, but I did fly through it. I came off as the \"know it all\" in the class and people gave me dirty looks. Oh well. It gave me a chance to work with a couple instructors and talk about things that I do and would like to do with their products and really get an insight into the company. Very worthwhile, F5 does very well with their training.
