I’m sitting here on my balcony looking out over the lights of fisherman’s terminal, listening to the dulcet tunes of my downstairs neighbor. He’s sitting on his deck playing the guitar and singing, and (thank goodness) he’s very good. He has variety of classic songs in his repertoire, starting with Swing Lo, Sweet Chariot, and has a lovely voice. The girl sitting with him sometimes sings along (unfortunately) and if I had balls I’d join in too. Haha. I wish Ryan were here so we could sit together and enjoy the night music. Only two more days!

They started singing LANDSLIDE!!! My favorite.

Walking past the Secret Garden Books today in beautiful Downtown Ballard, I stopped to admire the Harry Potter display (3 more days!!!) and noticed that the store is giving 20% of the profits of The Deathly Hallows to three Seattle non-profits that support children’s literacy. One of them is 826 Seattle…..hmmmm….where have I heard that name before? (Slaps forehead.) I know! It sounds just like 826 Valencia, the children’s writing nonprofit with the pirate store in San Francisco that I blogged about last week, in which I wrote “If it were in Seattle I would definitely volunteer there.” The Seattle branch doesn’t have a pirate store, to my great disappointment, but it has awesome free creative writing classes for teenagers. Two classes I want to take are “Write a novel in a month” and “Northwest Mythology Tales”. If only I were under 18! Arrrrrg!