a virtuous weekend, only partly by accident

[sistawendy]

Friday: dinner with the Wendling, followed by not enough sleep. That was a problem because...

Saturday: ...I went to the Hands Off protest at the Seattle Center. Highlights:

• One speaker said there were 15,000 people in attendance, and I believe it.
• The weather was perfect, and I have a sunburn on the left side of my neck as evidence. (I wore a hat.)
• Elaine Wylie of the Gender Justice League was one of the speakers; I've known her for over twenty years. (She also mentioned that she's single. Ahem.)
• My US Representative, Congresswoman Jayapal, was another speaker. She surely knew that she was expected to talk about all the things Trump & Musk have fucked up, and covering so many of them took real effort.
• The signs? Homemade, mostly unique, and often artful or witty. This was not astroturf.
• Fave speaker? The young man from Common Power.

I was supposed to hit Pony with Tacoma Girl early yesterday evening, but first TG got a migraine not long beforehand, and then my own lack of sleep caught up with me. I slept from 2000 to midnight, and then 0400 to 0800. So not even a trip to the Mercury for me this weekend. Le sigh.

Am reading: Leviathan Wakes by James Corey. It's the first of The Expanse series. It's easy to see why this was a) popular and b) adapted for TV. It's a page-turner and I'm hooked.