Team Outings and Sharing the Joys of Seattle

What a week!

My teammates from Sydney to Zurich all descended upon Seattle this week for our annual Ops-a-Palooza. It was a week of big announcements, personnel changes, workshops, and getting to know our teammates as more than avatars on a video conference screen.

I tried to make sure we kicked off the week right. For those teammates who got into town early enough, I arranged for some wine tasting in the Woodinville Warehouse District. Patterson Cellars was better than I expected. It's harvest season, so the this working boutique winery was crushing grapes. We got to sample some of the grapes from the truck and watched as they cleaned, de-stemmed, and crushed the juice from them, all while our hostess visited samples of wine upon us. It was a fascinating visit.

And, for a couple of teammates who stayed an extra day, we stole away on Thursday afternoon to sail from a nearby dock, gliding along by zephyr to the south end of Lake Union. I was able to point out the sights and give a little history of the greater Lake Union area.

But today, being the first day in about 12 days when I haven't seen a teammate from work, I've puttered in my garage, run my monthly emergency generator tests, and played with WordPress.

I found that some blog posts that I had imported from Blogger had not formatted well, so I spent the better part of this afternoon just cleaning some of that up. I think I've cleaned up 20% of the old posts.

Now I am tired and I hear a glass of wine calling me.