Rats Don't Like Peppermint

The CEO of 7th Generation told me that.

I was in a meeting I probably shouldn't have been in for more than 10 minutes but sat through the whole thing and one of the random tangents we talked about was how the scent specialist at 7th Gen puts a peppermint scent in some cleaners but they don't mention why. Jeffery Hollender was a pretty interesting guy and he spoke to Amazon about living a sustainable lifestyle. Diapers made with Hydrogen Peroxide instead of Chlorine for example or paper products made out of recycled paper products.

I ended up going to Summerfest this year after all. West Seattle has a mini festival called the West End Summerfest and I saw a band called Awesome! play. I'll reserve judgement on just how awesome they were but they did entertain. I did find a decent bar called Rockspot and I got visited a pretty solid Mexican play called Matador for the second time. Tonight I'm going to Mama's, a La Fuente type place to meet up with some friends of Emily's that recently moved to Seattle. I figure a margarita or two would be a perfect Saturday night. On a different note, I did find a decent hamburger place. It's called Red Mill and there are two of them in Seattle and it seems like they've been around forever. Not the best burgers I've ever had but good enough to go back for sure and easily the best I've had in Seattle so far.

Randomly - I'm watching Kingpin on Starz right now and it's still funny over 10 years later and just as stupid. I got munson'd. I did see HP5 - that's Harry Potter 5 for people NOT in the industry - at the theater today. They cut a bunch of stuff and combined a few plot points to keep the movie just over two hours. I think they should have left them in and let the movie be long but that's just me the movie was still solid. It's only a week until HP7 comes out to complete the series and I'll be reading on my rooftop deck next weekend. The reason I call Harry Potter HP is when we talk about the release of book 7 at work they started calling HP7 to save time. It doesn't save that much time but who am I. I don't even work in books and I hear about HP7 all the time. I guess 1.2 million presold copies will do that to people.

I bought my plane tickets to Austin and St. Louis this week and I'm going to look into Colorado Springs soon but that one is a maybe. The bright side of all the flying I'm doing is eventually I'll be able to upgrade to first class every once in a while. I have a work trip to Reno Nevada coming up soon also. I'm kind of excited about that trip because it will be 100 degrees outside and 120 inside the warehouse. I'm really excited about the trip just not the time of year.

Tomorrow I think I'll figure out how to load pictures onto the blog. That seems like a good use of my time.