Missed opportunity

[susandennis]

The Sunday morning news show on public radio is generally a mix of hard news and features. This morning they teased a story about asking the girl friend of one of the guys up in space right now what she was reading these days. The interviewer led off by saying 'so do you have much time for reading these days (the girl friend is a politician running for election)? The obvious answer is 'well, my boyfriend is out of town...' She went for the boring - both reading list and answer. I'm grateful that there are people who put up with the pain of getting elected and the often thankless task of creating laws and other legislating, and I should not want more of them than they already give. Plus real comedians need the work.

It's going to be another hot one today but I don't have to go anywhere. The Mariner game is this afternoon and I have a perfect work project for it... I have to make one change to about a 40 different Technet pages. Getting paid for sitting on my chaise lounge watching TV. Did the luck fairy every smack a big on on my forehead!

My downstairs lesbians brought me brownies yesterday and a coffee mug from Belize! Plus they told me that the brew pub going in next door was mentioned in the other newspaper (the one I don't subscribe to).

Fielding Qwest-ions

What's the brew-ha-ha down by Qwest Field? It's the guys at Elysian Brewing Co. going gonzo with their third restaurant/brewery location. Elysian Fields (542 First Ave. S.), in the newly restored Reedo Building, is expected to open by Aug. 1, occupying 10,000 square feet of real estate just a foam's blow from the football stadium.

On tap to run the kitchen is chef John Knowles, late of Consolidated Restaurants, and making sure there's something in the taps will be head brewer Kevin Forhan.

With 400 seats, an outdoor patio and specially crafted beers brewed on the premises, this should be the "Field" of dreams for many, not the least of which are co-owners Joe Bisacca, David Buhler and Dick Cantwell.

The trio founded their first brewpub, Elysian Brewing Co. (1221 E. Pike St., Seattle; 206-860-1920; www.elysianbrewing.com), on Capitol Hill in 1996 and their second, dubbed Elysian Tangletown (2106 N. 55th St., Seattle; 206-547-5929), near Green Lake in 2003. Once open, their newest and biggest venture will serve eats and drinks daily from 11ish till 2 a.m.

Nice! A check of the menus of their other two locations indicates that this could, indeed, be an excellent addition to the neighborhood.

Now I need to put away the laundry from yesterday... Betty is outside on the terrace so I need to get in and do it while her back is turned.