22-26 December 2006 In Kansas City for Christmas with the family
17-22 December 2006 Survived the blizzard in Denver and Boulder to see Lyle, Jeff, Nina, and Elaine
18-24 November 2006 In Kalispell, Montana with Jewel, visiting her grandma for Thanksgiving, pics coming soon...
28 October 2006 Third annual Halloween party! see
pictures
29 September - 1 October 2006 In Hood River, OR for the wedding of Lee Samler and Chris Lloyd, see
pictures.
21-25 September 2006 In Kansas City for my brother Steve's wedding, pics coming soon...
8-11 September 2006 In Kansas City for my brother Steve's bachelor party, pics coming soon...
24-7 August 2006 In St. Louis for the wedding of my cousin Scott Stack, pics coming soon...
1 August - 6 August 2006 In Las Vegas at
Caesar's Palace 
for Black Hat and
Def Con
28 July - 1 August 2006 In New York City visiting Ian, pictures coming soon!
15-17 July 2006 In Portland, OR to fetch friends who rode the STP
8 July 2006 With Carlin, Meghann, and Dell, saw Lyle Lovett & his Large Band at the Chateau Ste. Michelle winery
21 June 2006 Solstice party at Seattle's Golden Gardens, pics coming soon...
28 April - 2 May 2006 In Montana for Maggotfest and home via Glacier National Park, see pics
10 March 2006 Attended Microsoft Bluehat's Blue Game limosine scavenger hunt, see pics
28 January 2006 Hosted a 3-way birthday party for Johanna Branagan, Adeelia Goffe, and Meghann White... pictures coming soon!
27 Dec 2005 - 3 Jan 2006 In Hawaii for New Year's Eve; visited Molokai and Oahu... pictures coming soon!
18-25 December 2005 In Denver and Kansas City for Christmas; pictures coming soon!
15-23 October 2005 Europe for work and play: Amsterdam; Vienna; Freiburg, Germany; Basel, Switzerland; pictures coming soon!
30 May - 13 June 2005 Two weeks in Jamaica !
With Meghann, drove around the island, and then attended the wedding of Cheryl and Sascha in Montego Bay, see
pictures.
16-20 April 2005 In Kansas City for the funeral of my grandmother, Genevieve Sutter
1 January 2005 Held a smooth blues party at my place as part of Swing Out Northwest
23 December 2004 Attended the 20 Year Reunion of the Curé of Ars Class of 1985
20 Dec 2004 - 1 Jan 2005 In Kansas City and Denver for Christmas and New Year's
18 September 2004 Saw Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Dave Matthews, and a bunch of other classics at
Farm Aid at the White River Amphitheater in
Auburn (definitely one of the worst venues i have ever been to)
5 September 2004 Attended the wedding of Darcy Rutter and Bryan Sera in Woodinville, WA
12-7 August 2004 In Coventry, Vermont for the final two Phish
shows, see pictures.
31 July 2004 S-S-Salsa Party! See pics.
15-22 May 2004 In Hawaii for Jamie's graduation from art school! Pictures coming soon...
1 May 2004 Hosted a wonderful Cinco de Mayo party at my house, pictures coming soon...
13 March 2004 Attended Ian Sweeney's Bachelor Party in Seattle, pictures coming soon...
5 March 2004 Attended Christy Forrester's birthday party
14 February 2004 Hosted Los Tras Davids' Valentine's Day party at my house... see pictures
19 January 2004 Started a new job as a Security Program Manager inside the Windows security team at Microsoft
17 January 2004 Saw Carmen performed by the Seattle Opera; one of the best productions I had seen in a long time!
31 December 2003 The Owl and Thistle Band rocked out at the Owl and Thistle in Seattle;
Andy, Sophia,
and Dan were there to share the craziness
19 December 2003 While in Kansas City for Christmas, met up with some old classmates from Curé of Ars gradeschool,
see pictures
31 October 2003 Halloween party at Bryan and
Darcy's, see pictures
1-6 October 2003 In Kansas City for my brother Brian's wedding; see pictures!
27 Sept 2003 Saw a wonderful presentation of Swan Lake by the Pacific Northweat Ballet in their new home, McCaw Hall in Seattle.
20 Sept 2003 Hosted an Eighties Dance Party; see pictures.
12-14 Sept 2003 In Las Vegas for my younger brother Brian's
bachelor party; see pictures.
30 Aug/1 Sept 2003 Bumbershoot !
Saw the Dusty 45s, R.E.M., Wilco, Nickel Creek, and many others...
24 August 2003 Saw Garrison Keillor and the cast of
A Prairie Home Companion at
Marymoor Park in Redmond, WA
23 August 2003 Hosted a fundraiser for the Lady Gaels
(Seattle's female Irish football team); see pictures.
8 August 2003 Saw The Derailers
at the Tractor Tavern in Ballard...
I really should have worn my cowboy hat to this one!
6 August 2003 Saw Hillary Rodham Clinton speak
to a packed Microsoft PAC meeting in Redmond; she was quite impressive and knowledgable on the issues
2-3 August 2003 Spent a wonderful weekend camping at the
Belfair State Park
with Brian Wills, Adreinne Keith, Calico Sequeira, Devin Campbell, Jen Gillick, Calle Johansson, and Terisa Hawk
26 July 2003 Co-hosted a rather large salsa party at my place in Wallingford
11-14 July 2003 With Paula, Jim Doran, Bonnie Doran, Dillon Harris, and Wendy Harris,
camped out in central Washington to attend the two Phish shows at the Gorge Amphitheater, see pictures.
27 June 2003 Lyle Lovett at the Pier!
16-7 May 2003 Attended the wedding of
David Stevens and Linda Lambrecht in Wichita, KS
10 April 2003 Closed on a new house in the Wallingford neighborhood in Seattle!
9-15 March 2003 In Amsterdam and Paris with Laura, see pictures.
18 January 2003 With Les, Therese, and Laura, saw Don Pasquale performed at the Seattle Opera
10-13 January 2003 In Kansas City for the memorial service for my grandfather Mike Tamasi, who passed away at the age
of 91; see pictures
20 Dec 2002 to 1 Jan 2003 Spent Christmas in Kansas City and New Year's in Denver, see
pictures!
8 November 2002 Saw the world premiere of Rush, as well as The Moor's Pavane, Concerto Barocco
(the best), and Voluntaries at the Pacific Northwest Ballet ;
special thanks to Jen for the tickets!
31 Oct to 3 Nov 2002 In San Francisco for Halloween; survived 300,000 rather interesting individuals in the Castro
on Halloween night, hung out with Jon, and
Sonia and Danny
who recently moved to the Bay Area from Vancouver, BC
16 October 2002 Attended a talk by Republican Rudy Guiliani at a Microsoft PAC meeting; my is he a slippery one
14 September 2002 With Andy and Brian,
saw Rush at the Gorge Amphitheater,
a stop on their first tour in more than five years.
11 September 2002 Attended the Rolling Requiem at Safeco Field in Seattle.
23 August 2002 Saw Cirque du Soleil 's
absolutely wonderful Dralion in Renton, WA.
12 August 2002 Saw an excellent talk by the Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle at a Microsoft PAC meeting in Redmond.
27 July 2002 With Laura, Bryan,
Darcy, Calvin, and Amanda, saw a
phenomenal show by Down from the Mountain
at the Chateau Ste. Michelle winery in Woodinville, WA
21-23 July 2002 In Kansas City, with family for the wake and funeral of my uncle Jim Maloney
12-20 July 2002 Road Trip! 2150 miles in nine days. Seattle -> Portland -> Crater Like -> Napa Valley -> Berkeley ->
San Francisco -> PCH -> Redwood National Park -> Seattle; see pictures
22 June 2002 Saw Lyle Lovett
and his Large Band at Pier 62/63 in Seattle
16-20 May 2002 In Kansas City for the high school graduation of my sister Michela
13-14 April 2002In Victoria, British Columbia, on vacation with Laura, Les, and Therese
1 April 2002This site's six-year anniversary!
21-24 March 2002 In Waco, TX, for the wedding of
Eric Parthé and Lorre Swanson
17 March 2002 Saw a The Last True Believer
at the Seattle Rep, and then caught Them Blokes playing a St. Patrick's Day gig at the very English St. George's Dragon in Fremont
23 February 2002 Saw William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy at a Star Trek festival, hosted by Creation Entertainment at the (ugly, ugly) Airport Hilton in Seatac, WA
22 January 2002 Saw Eric Schlosser, author of the bestselling Fast Food Nation , speak at the University of Washington
19 January 2002 Saw the Seattle Opera 's rendition of Madama Butterfly at the Mercer Arena, the Opera's temporary home, and then dropped by Laura's surprise party
11-13 January 2002 In Las Vegas, NV for Eric's bachelor party, see pictures
30 December 2001 - 1 January 2002 In Vancouver, B.C., for New Year's with Laura, Bryan, and Darcy
21-29 December 2001 In Denver and Kansas City for Christmas
16-24 November 2001 In Kansas City for my grandfather's birthday and Thanksgiving; see pictures here...
17 November 2001 My grandfather, Mike Tamasi, turned 90!
23 October 2001 Saw R.E.M.
play a two hour set in front of 200 people at an unannounced show at the
Crocodile Café
5-7 October 2001 In Victoria, British Columbia, with Laura and my parents, who visited the Pacific Northwest for the third time since I moved here in August 1997
27 Septmber 2001 Saw the American Ballet Theatre 's rendition of the French ballet Giselle at the Paramount Theater in Seattle
15-16 September 2001 With Laura, visited Seaside on the Oregon Coast by way of Highway 101
29 July 2001 Saw Peter Gabriel ,
among others, at WOMAD ,
World of Music Arts and Dance, at Marymoor Park ,
northeast of Seattle
28 July 2001 Saw David Byrne at
Pier 62/63 in Seattle
12 July 2001 Saw Lyle Lovett
and his Large Band at Pier 62/63 in Seattle
23 June 2001 Saw Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion
live at the Chateau Ste. Michelle winery in Woodinville, WA.
9 June 2001 With Laura, saw a terrible, terrible
Brian Wilson open for
the absurdly amazing Paul Simon at the
Gorge Amphitheater in the middle of Washington State
30 May 2001 Folklife !
(One of the Seattle Center's best summertime events)
12-19 May 2001 Visited the Arenal Volcano, went white-water rafting, took a Calypso cruise, and hiked
through the Manuel Antonio National Park while on vacation in Costa Rica
(thanks to my aunt Gina at Absolutely Costa Rica )
5 May 2001 Saw the University of Washington's rendition of Clive Barker's The History of the Devil or Scenes from a Pretended Life at Meany Studio
4 May 2001 Saw Chick Corea at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley in Seattle with Don Schmidt, who was visiting from Kansas City
28-30 April 2001 In Victoria, B.C. by way of the
Clipper
22 April 2001 Saw the Seattle Rep 's play Art at the Bagley Wright theater
15 April 2001 Saw Peter Brook's The Tragedy of Hamlet at the Mercer Arena --- one of the absolute best performances I've ever seen
12 April 2001 Saw opening night of Le Corsaire Pas de Trois and a Stravinski Concerto at the
Pacific Northwest Ballet
2 April 2001 Opening Day! Ian and I saw the
Mariners '
come-from-behind victory over the A's at Safeco Field (what a terrible name for a stadium) in downtown Seattle...
3 March 2001 Saw a wonderful rendition of Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream performed by the
Seattle Repertory Theater .
28 February 2001 Earthquake! Today's 6.7-magnitude quake, centered about 45 miles southwest of the
Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA, and 30 miles
below ground, was the first I'd ever been in... rather unnerving, actually.
24 February 2001 Attended opening night of the opera Tosca at the
Opera House in the Seattle Center
29 December 2000 - 1 January 2001 In San Francisco, Sonoma County, and Berkeley, CA for New Year's
20-26 December 2000 In Kansas City and Lawrence for Christmas, see pictures here
21-27 November 2000 In Kansas City and Lawrence for Thanksgiving, see pictures here
13-15 October 2000 Attended the truly groovy wedding of
Ian Ritter and Rachel Hodson
at the Captain Whidbey Inn on Whidbey Island, WA
23 September 2000 Saw the Spoon Man, Eddie Vedder, and Jim Hightower open up for
Ralph Nader at Key Arena in Seattle
3 September 2000 Bumbershoot !
Cirque Spectacular and Ladysmith Black Mambazo
(a South African choral group, recently of Paul Simon's Graceland fame in the United States) were the standouts at this Seattle Labor Day ritual...
26-27 August 2000 Spent the weekend in Victoria ,
British Columbia (Canada); took a harbour cruise, ate excellent Italian food at
Il Terrazzo , and visited the beautiful
Butchart Garderns .
9 August 2000 The five-year anniversary of the death of Grateful Dead guitarrist Jerry Garcia and my brother Brian's birthday
29 July 2000 Saw Mickey Hart and many others at WOMAD in Redmond, WA
15-23 July 2000 Road trip! 3476 miles in ten days: from Seattle via Pendleton, OR to Moab, UT (Dead Horse Point and
Arches National Park ); met my
family in Vail, CO (hiking, horses, and whitewater rafting), visited
Lyle and Jeff in
Denver, CO, and then traveled through Jackson Hole, WY, on the way to the
Grand Teton and
Yellowstone
National Parks, and then back home to Seattle
4 July 2000 Witnessed a spectacular fireworks display over Puget Sound in Seattle
22-25 June 2000 In Minnesota for Dick and Pam's wedding in Beaver Bay, along the North Shore of Lake Superior, about an hour north of Duluth
17 June 2000 Attended the Bolshoi Ballet Company's rendition of Romeo and Juliet at the Paramount Theater in Seattle
8-11 June 2000 In New Orleans, specifically the French Quarter, for the
wedding of Mike Sarowski and Chelsea Kapfer
4 June 2000 With Laura, drove the US Highway 101
Olympic Loop
around the Olympic peninsula, stopping for a majestic view from the most northwestern point in the continental US,
Cape Flattery
on the Makah Indian Reservation
27-28 May 2000 In Portland, OR, for Mike Sarowski's bachelor party
5-7 March 2000 In Kansas City for the memorial services for my grandmother, Bette Tamasi, who passed away after a four-year struggle with
Alzheimer's disease
27 February - 5 March 2000 In Denver for a SQL 2000 database conference, and then in Breckenridge and Copper Mountain
for a guy's weekend with Lyle, Jeff,
Eric, Mike, and Mike
19-20 February 2000 In Vancouver ,
British Columbia, Canada, with Laura, Spencer, and Ann for a party at Danny and Sonia's apartment
29 January - 2 February 2000 In Kansas City for my Aunt Gina's wedding
23 January 2000 Toured Seattle by air in a small four-seater;
Andy was the pilot...
31 December 1999 Celebrated the new year, decade, century, and millennium with Robert Cray, the Squirrel Nut Zippers,
and Chris Isaac at the Last Call Millennium Ball in downtown Seattle; this was a hasty second choice since our trusty mayor
Paul Schell canceled the festivities at the Seattle Center...
22-27 December 1999 Spent time in Denver and Kansas City for Christmas
22-29 November 1999 In Kansas City for Thanksgiving, saw the lights go on at the Plaza
20-25 October 1999 In Kansas City for the wedding of Jeff Purcell and Christy Jennings
10-20 September 1999 On vacation in Minnesota (spent time in the Twin Cities, the lakes, and Duluth)
and in Kansas City, the latter for my ten-year high school reunion
7-9 September 1999 In San Jose, CA, for work
23 August 1999 Saw Neil Diamond
at Key Arena in the Seattle Center ;
he's getting old, but man, can he still belt them out!
5-9 August 1999 My entire family -- Bob, Sally, Brian, Steve, Michela,
and also my cousin Cris -- spent four days in Seattle on vacation; we visited Microsoft, toured the Seattle waterfront,
took a cruise out to Lake Washington to see the Blue Angels, and drove south to Mount St. Helens...
1-4 August In Atlanta for work... oh my, was it warm!
22-26 July 1999 In the Bay Area for work and vacation... saw San Jose, San Francisco, Napa Valley, and Santa Cruz...
16-18 July 1999 In Las Vegas for Jeff Purcell and Chris Jayaram's bachelor parties...
saw Lyle and Eric
in what can only be described as sheer decadence...
4 July 1999 A spectacular fireworks finish to a great party with a great view made this Fourth of July at my house very memorable!
13 June 1999 Laura and I saw Paul Simon and Bob Dylan at the
Gorge Amphitheater in central Washington State.
1 June 1999 I moved! I reside now in a nice house atop Queen Anne Hill in Seattle, overlooking Lake Union.
Check out my view!
24-27 April 1999 In Washington D.C. on vacation. I had and took the
opportunity to tour the West Wing of the White House, including the Oval Office, Roosevelt Room, Cabinet Room, Rose Garden, and Press Room.
Additionally, I sat in on Oral Arguments in the Supreme Court, toured the U.S. Capitol, saw the Declaration of Independence, Constitution,
Magna Carta, etc., in the National Archives, and in general hung out among the buildings and monuments in a wonderfully historical city.
12 April 1999 Saw the David Grisman Quintet and Bela Fleck at the
Paramount Theater in Seattle. This was a GREAT show...
3 March 1999 Saw Chick Corea at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley in Seattle with Andre Mullan and Lohan Johnson. Great show.
20-22 February 1999 In the Bay Area, I caught up with Jon Schwark
and Rachel Brown: Berkeley, Oakland, Haight-Ashbury, Golden Gate Park, Beach, Sausalito, Chinatown, and San Jose
31 December 1998 In downtown Seattle for New Year's Eve --- the fireworks show off the Space Needle was quite amazing!
22-28 December 1998 In Kansas City for Christmas
23-30 November 1998 In Kansas City for Thanksgiving
5-8 November 1998 My parents and little sister Michela spent four days in Seattle. We did such touristy things as the Space Needle,
the Underground Tour, a fairy ride across Puget Sound to Bremerton, University Avenue, and the Pike Street Market. Great fun!
31 October 1998 Spent four days in San Francisco for Halloween; hung out with Jon and Rachel; great fun at a freaky costume party
in Oakland on Friday and downtown Frisco for Halloween.
13-16 August 1998 In Kansas City for a family reunion and my grandmother's 90th birthday
8-9 August 1998 In Portland, OR with Ian Ritter
(who has now lived in Seattle for three weeks)---crazy time!
1 August 1998 Saw Peter, Paul, and Mary at the
Chateau Ste. Michelle winery in Woodinville, WA
with my group at Microsoft. Good show, great wine!
18 July 1998 Had a drink with Tom Leykis
at Tropix in Seattle, a couple hours prior to the riots around the Space Needle.
16-17 July 1998 Saw Phish play two very mellow shows at the Gorge.
12 July 1998 While in Port Townsend, WA with Hollie, I saw
Tom Robbins , author of such books as
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Still Life With Woodpecker, give a lecture at a writers conference there.
26 June - 6 July 1998 Roadtripped throughout the western United States, 4208 miles in ten days, part of the way
(until Los Angeles) with Dave and the entire way with Hollie.
In order, from Seattle: Portland, OR (saw Kisa); the Redwood Forest and the
Pacific Coast Highway (Cali #1); Napa Valley (the Robert Mondavi winery );
San Francisco (stayed in Haight-Ashbury and hung out with Bob Asher); Los Angeles (and Venice and Newport Beaches); Phoenix, AZ; the
Rainbow Gathering in the Apache National Forest in eastern Arizona;
then through Arizona to the Hoover Dam; Las Vegas, NE; Death Valley , CA
(it hit 116 degrees F at 6:30 PM as we played in the sand dunes at -150 ft); Mt. Whitney (the tallest mountain in the lower 48 states)
and the Sierra Nevada mountain range; Reno, NE (rather podunk compared to Vegas); and the Mount St. Helen National Park in
southern Washington State (the lava canyon is beautiful).
14-16 June 1998 In Boston on business, I hung out at the original
Cheers , which was rather disappointing.
Otherwise, Boston was a lot of fun, historical, and wet.
9 June 1998 My father, Robert M. Tamasi, of a certain Kansas City fame,
turned 50 years old. Over the hill is he!
30 May 1998 My roommate Mike and I moved into a great apartment immediately southeast of downtown
Seattle ,
with great views of the Kingdome, Elliot Bay, and Pioneer Square... our new number there: (206) 382-9200.
6-10 May 1998 I ate my first fried cactus and sampled my first buffalo while in Sedona, AZ ...
quite an interesting place just a hundred miles north of Phoenix. The rocks are really red and everyone there believes in extraterrestrial life...
22-26 April 1998 While in Kansas City/Lawrence on vacation with my roommate Mike,
I saw many old friends, had a party in our room at the Eldridge Hotel \
in Lawrence, and relaxed a lot...
2-6 April 1998 In Denver on vacation, I stayed with my cousin Lyle;
hung out in Boulder and the Rocky Mountain National Park outside Estes Park, CO.
17 March 1998 In Dublin, Ireland for St. Patrick's Day, I spent most of the evening wandering Temple Bar,
a quite-popular area of the city just south of the river Liffey and about a mile or so inland. To all of those who say that the
Americans celebrate Paddy's day more than the Irish, you don't know what the hell you're talking about!
28 January 1998 I toured the naval base in Bangor, WA, and walked on and all the way through the
USS Alabama (SSBN-726) ,
a U.S. Trident II nuclear missile submarine, loaded with 24 ICBMs tipped with MIRVs (Multiple Impact Reentry Vehicles). Eerie.
1 January 1998: I just returned to Seattle from four days in Chicago, where I saw Ian,
Sharon,
Sallee,
and Joree, the latter three for the first time in years.
New Year's Eve was spent with Jon Spencer's Blues Explosion at the Metro on Clark.
22-27 December 1997: In Kansas City for the holidays.
13-21 December 1997: In Europe for Microsoft; visited Dublin and Copenhagen.
30 November 1997: I just returned to Seattle from Thanksgiving in Kansas City...
Notable: Plaza Lights on Thursday, Lawrence, KS, on Friday, and the long-awaited reunion of
S.P.I. in the basement of Jeff
and Eric on Saturday.
16 November 1997: In Denver on vacation, I witnessed the Chiefs' last minute victory over the Broncos,
saw my old friend Nina, and caught
Phish at McNichols Arena.
19 October 1997: So far, this has been a great transition and I'm quite content to be passing my time in the Emerald City!
15 August 1997: I recently moved from Lawrence, Kansas to the Pacific Northwest to work for the
Microsoft Corporation .
4-5 July 1997 My first visit to the Pacific Northwest; Andy
and I attended the 1997 North American Gathering of the Rainbow Family of Living Light, or the
Rainbow Gathering ,
in the Ochocco National Forest in central Oregon.