June-July-August 2013
  
 
june_2013_24.jpg (777645 bytes) june_2013_26.jpg (518861 bytes) june_2013_27.jpg (123819 bytes) Sunday, June 2, 2013, Bellevue, WA
With Chenphen and Charmhen... Charmhen checking out the Bigfoot galley... and Chenphen and Charmhen at Shshi Me...
 
june_2013_30.jpg (457697 bytes) Monday, June 17, 2013, Bellevue, WA
Bellevue Square... lettuce wraps with Nancy at P.F. Chang's...
 
june_2013_31.JPG (463897 bytes) Monday, June 24, 2013, Bellevue, WA
Dumplings with Nancy at Spiced, Crossroads. Nancy says the dumplings at Spiced are (as good as) Din Tai Fung (where she works)!
 
june_2013_32.jpg (612406 bytes) Friday, June 28, 2013, Bellevue, WA
Crossroads... The Blackberry Bushes Stringband. I was enjoying biscuits & gravy at the Crossroads Cafe counter as this outfit delivered a fine version of "Orange Blossom Special," which, at its conclusion, produced what may have been the most enthusiastic applause I've heard here in a coon's age...
 
june_2013_33.jpg (602082 bytes) Friday, June 28, 2013, Bellevue, WA
Crossroads Starbucks, having ice cream with Captain Phil Wilson. Captain Phil was piloting a T-33 Trainer over East Germany on April 1, 1961, when he was shot down by a Russian Mig...
 
july_2013_01.jpg (502672 bytes) july_2013_02.jpg (741195 bytes) Wednesday, July 3, 2013, Redmond, WA
Lunchtime at Microsoft. My workplace, Studio E (Windows Phone group), is in the background...
 
Friday, July 21, 2013, Bellevue, WA
With Nancy at Blue C Sushi... Bellevue Square...
 
july_2013_04.jpg (581402 bytes) Friday, July 26, 2013, Redmond, WA
Eastide Ski and Sport, in the Microsoft Commons. This fine cruiser was tempting me everytime I walked by...
 
july_2013_06.jpg (1619610 bytes) Friday, July 26, 2013, Bellevue, WA
Downtown Bellevue with Nancy. Funny, the nice policeman didn't ask me to sit on his motorcycle...
 
july_2013_07.jpg (197075 bytes) Friday, July 26, 2013, Bellevue, WA
Bikini shopping with Nancy at Bellevue Square. Oh the things I must endure...
 
july_2013_09.jpg (633732 bytes) Wednesday, July 31, 2013, Redmond, WA
My side desk at work. The combination of whole almonds and cherry tomatoes is perhaps my favorite snack...
 
july_2013_10.jpg (404997 bytes) Wednesday, July 31, 2013, Bellevue, WA
At Din Tai Fung with my old friend Randy Angel. Randy, from Charlotte, was in town on business...
 
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Thursday, August 1, 2013, Bellevue, WA
My bear rug...

 
august_2013_02.jpg (530408 bytes) Monday, August 12, 2013, Bellevue, WA
At the Crab Pot with Nancy...
 

 
Friday, August 16, 2013, Bellevue, WA
Amy's birthday party...
 
august_2013_03.jpg (331354 bytes) Amy and Bigfoot Thompson...
 
august_2013_04.jpg (211550 bytes) David (Amy’s husband), Steve (Amy’s father, also celebrating a birthday), Amy, and me...
 
august_2013_05.jpg (367166 bytes) Amy and Steve (Amy’s father, also celebrating a birthday)...
 
august_2013_06.jpg (417861 bytes) Steve (Amy’s father, also celebrating a birthday), Amy, and Suzy (Amy’s mother)...
 
august_2013_07.jpg (327073 bytes) Amy, me, and Suzy (Amy’s mother)...
 

 
Sunday, August 18, 2013, Renton, WA
Pretty little Geneva’s birthday party at Coulon Beach Park...
 
august_2013_08.jpg (512591 bytes) On the cruiser, wishing I had a boat...
 
august_2013_09.jpg (617499 bytes) august_2013_10.jpg (487473 bytes) Geneva, the birthday girl...
 
august_2013_11.jpg (787688 bytes) Andy, Geneva’s father...
 
august_2013_12.jpg (439748 bytes) Tracy and her baby...
 
august_2013_13.jpg (463491 bytes) Hong Hoa and Geneva...
 
august_2013_14.jpg (640659 bytes) Little Geneva, Hong Hoa, and some guy with a sporty hat...
 
august_2013_15.jpg (377958 bytes) Andy and Geneva...
 
august_2013_16.jpg (932494 bytes) Tracy and her baby...
 
august_2013_19.jpg (786841 bytes) august_2013_17.jpg (413409 bytes) Lots of good food... the mango dish was exceptional!
 
august_2013_18.jpg (555332 bytes) august_2013_20.jpg (741935 bytes) august_2013_21.jpg (407874 bytes) After presenting young Geneva with a monkey card and an AquaDoodle set, the Ranger rode off, around the south end of Lake Washington, past the massive Boeing facility... and on in to Renton town...
 

 
july_2013_11.jpg (332134 bytes) Saturday, August 24, 2013
Kay Kay at Salon West Wind sent me a photo from her recent trip to Hawaii...
 
august_2013_22.jpg (596339 bytes) august_2013_23.jpg (506192 bytes) Sunday, August 25, 2013, Redmond, WA
My favorite corner in little ol’ downtown Redmond is changing... though The Matador (on the left) and Redmond Western Wear (just beyond) still stand...
 
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Monday, August 26, 2013, Redmond, WA
At the Microsoft Commons, looking over the sport field toward Studio E. Studio E was my workplace since May 30, while in the Windows Phone group. I'm a big supporter of the Windows Phone platform but my contract turned out to be a short one, 3 months, and this was my last day there. Oh well... I signed on with the Xbox group the same day!

 
Saturday, August 31, 2013, Redmond, WA
At Salon West Wind... Kay Kay said - "not Bigfoot, beautiful foot!"