We met up yesterday with the Prosser family at the Woodland Park Zoo. We lucked out with the weather (only a few sprinkles) so we did quite a bit of wandering. It was a great way to spend the afternoon!

Since Alexander Limi (one of the original developers of Plone, a content management system with which Melody works) was in town, a bunch of Seattle Plone people gathered tonight for some bowling at Garage Billiards in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Melody and I went along, and although she was the only person from where she's working (Web Collective), there were several people she knew from the business next door (ONE/Northwest).

Last weekend Melody and I went to a lunch downtown to celebrate the 500th client for PRESS, which is a real estate referral service. We became clients when we bought our home in 2002 and it worked out well for us. Jim Stacey referred us to a great agent, loan officer, and inspector, and then tagged along at the inspection to give us yet another point of view of the condition of the house. Since then, he's been a good sounding board for us when we've had questions about home maintenance or even doing a short plat with our neighbor (a topic for another post).

I know it's trendy to drive less, but we've been racking up far fewer miles on our cars over the past several years. By how much? Let's just say we're planning to go down to one car, but some background is in order before I talk about that.