decidedlyodd

Yesterday morning I managed to drag myself out of bed in time to go to Frontrunners at 9am. I’ve been better about this lately, now having gone for two weeks in a row. Unsurprisingly I’ve found it helps when I don’t go out the night before. It’s a bit lonely staying at home Friday nights, but these days I just don’t really care for going out to the bars more than once a week. It’s just too much of the same old, same old when I go to the same clubs and see the same people and dance to the same music more often than that. Moreover, I appreciate the socializing before, during and after the run more than at a loud bar or club.

After getting back from running and cleaned up, I ran some errands. Another great thing about getting up to go run by 9am is that by the time it’s all over, it’s usually only about 11am, leaving plenty of time to get other stuff done on Saturday. Since I’ve vowed to dramatically reduce the number of days a week I commute in my car over to Redmond, I decided I should take advantage of the relatively light Saturday traffic to pay a visit to my credit union (the branches around here are only on the Eastside) to take care of some business. The place was a zoo as was the Trader Joe’s I stopped at in Redmond, but I managed to get everything done.

Saturday night, I met up with Brian and Chris, who I’d seen earlier that morning at Frontrunners. We started at Brian’s place with some impromptu prepartying before moving on to Purr (where I lamely spilled the remaining third of my drink all over my pants) and then of course the Cuff. Initially, there had been some talk about going to the Eagle. The Eagle is the one gay bar in Seattle (well, except Changes in Wallingford) I haven’t been to. Chris wanted to go as well since there was supposedly a decent DJ that night, but somehow it never materialized in the process of satisfying the desires of everybody in the large group we were with.