Yesterday I went up to the Seattle Conservation Corps to pick up some composters: two green cone things for food waste and one for yard waste. The cones at least are sold at an 80% discount from retail; the yard waste thing not so much IMO (I got it because I did not want to make one). The cones are the type where you just toss stuff in until it is full and then just let it sit until it composts… good for the city I suppose so people don’t have to worry about turning it. They are buried in the ground (with a plastic “cage” covering the bottom to prevent rats and whatnot from entering).

The pickup place for these things was past Magnuson Park in a large complex of buildings that were, I assume, formerly a military base of some sort. It did not look like some of the buildings were even occupied which was a bit creepy. Actually, the area looked like a level in a FPS video game. The pickup office was in a nondescript building that you entered via a rusty white staircase up to the third(?) floor and then followed many paper signs and arrows to the office.

It has been raining hard, so I have not set up them up.
Since I was in the area, I met Amanda for a late lunch at World Wraps in University Village. I also picked up a book at Barnes and Noble.

The book is Tiassa, a fantasy novel by Steven Brust. It was good; I managed to read it twice last night (well, once fully then skimmed). I have read all of his books since his first in 1983, and he is really the only SF writer I whose books I buy right when they come out nowadays. A good thing, too, since hardcovers are like 25 bucks a pop minimum now. It is the library for everyone else.

There is a flood watch here. Good thing the rain let up last week during our week of projects otherwise we would have gotten nothing outside done.

I managed to stuff a few of the yard waste bags that we generated last week in our container. It will still be a while before they are all gone.