Celebrity sighting

Tommy Martyn · Post by **Tommy Martyn** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 5:12 pm

Guess who has just put an offer in for my house in Seattle? No, not Gordon Liddy. Dan Fucking Savage! What a hoot.

Post by **mccutcheon** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 5:55 pm

that's cool.

Post by **Sloth** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 6:59 pm

I guess the gay rugby team will still be welcome there.

marky · Post by **marky** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 7:36 am

Someone will probably give me shit for this but after reading his publication for some years, Dan Savage just annoys me in the end. I won't get into whys and wherefores. I thought he had some good approaches in his column for awhile, but other things he wrote in the paper bugged me and still do to this day.

marky · Post by **marky** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 7:37 am

There's one other celebrity in Seattle that I find EVEN more annoying than Dan Savage, though, and I refuse to name him, of course.

Post by **mccutcheon** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 2:27 pm

is it The Sloth?

mmenabi · Post by **mmenabi** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 4:47 pm

dan savage made me eat my junior mints sculpture a couple years ago so now he is my sworn enemy.

Tommy Martyn · Post by **Tommy Martyn** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 6:31 pm

The deal appears to be falling through. It seems that my house will remain pure after all. I half want it not to sell, so I can move back into it after renting out for a few years.

Post by **Sloth** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:34 am

Tommy, is Ohio wearing thin on you already?

Some might say you left paradise to move to a parking lot.

Post by **mccutcheon** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:59 am

some might say there ain't a lot in the middle. But I know it is fat.

Tommy Martyn · Post by **Tommy Martyn** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 3:02 am

Be under no illusion, I fucking hate it here. We won't be staying. Me and Mrs Tommy are shooting for five years tops. Then it's back to the west coast. (California/Oregon/Washington - I don't give a fuck)

We didn't come out here for me. We came out for money and family.

As you probably know from reading the piss poor Seattle Times the golden years at Microsoft are over. We have thousands of share options that are worth fuck all. Folks at the big M are not getting promoted in a hurry. Same goes for many of the software sattelites dotted all over the sound. If you want to know how bad the Seattle economy really is - and there is a big black question hanging over Boeing - I can tell you that my house went on the market at 870 and currently we are looking for 750 and we might not get that.

Mrs Tommy got a great job here (More money/big title and she has already had a big pay raise since she started) but not by accident. Her old man is on the board of all sorts of institutions here and we thought it might be time to call in some of those contacts. (If any PA regulars who know me are looking for work in the financial field I would always be happy to hook you up with him. He loves helping people - he is a devout christian and really does practice what he preaches)

The other thing was having a family around to help with the kids. Tracy and I had nobody in Seattle. Would you leave your kids with Mc "eight ball" Cutch or Mav "the method." Seattle schools were also going to be a problem. Getting into the good public schools really was dependent on a lottery. The bad ones were not an option. The private ones were quite expensive. I can tell you that, as you and mrs Sloth get ready for family time and think about getting a permanent nest, city life looks like a bind. If you want good public schools in america, you head for the burbs. Or you can go private. The school that Henry turns out at currently wants you to stump up 17 grand a year from about age six onwards. Multiply that by two and the boring old burbs starts to look like a party town.

Our last reason was to do with the fact that the mum in law had a bout with cancer a year ago. She is fine and fit and well now but Mrs Tommy felt the call of the mothership and decided she wanted her children to spend some quality time around the grandparents. My desire to go out and get pissed in the gay bars of Seattle lacked gravitas in comparison. So, here I am. Bored. Sober. Very fit. (I look like a boxer these days.) And doing the right thing.

Maybe I will get round to that comic novel after all.

Reading back over this it looks like a financial statement. Compared to the freewheeling pax crowd I probably look money obsessed but kids make you think and act differently.

TragicPixie · Post by **TragicPixie** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 4:02 am

pssst Tommy I think it's nice your saving money and not wasting it on expensive educations for your kiddies when a good public school could be found. Mine wasted it shitloads on a good private Catholic education here - and well, I gotta say, the boys schools around are decent but the girls and co-ed schools are shit - it wasn't worth it and now that it's more important what university you attended rather than what high school, they haven't got any money. Which leaves me... very, very much in debt and very very unemployed.
..... Which is pretty typical now isn't it - be nice to your kids and save for uni.

Post by **mccutcheon** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 1:27 pm

I hear ya Tommy, I had my hands full with R2-D2 and 3-CPO.

martino · Post by **martino** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 3:34 pm

my oh my, the horrors of the suburban lifestyle trap. i say this without irony. (why am i always stressing that what i say is without irony?)

if i was your misses, tommy, i'd take that great education and those particular talents and work somewhere over here in yerp where your kids could get an education without your having to sell your soul to finance it.

for example, billgates has a nice house near dublin and you could get together for cocktails. or going even further north, people do have a dread of relocating to finland to work for nokia but i can tell you that people and schools are first-rate. or go to spain, where the techie jobs are still numerous and life is near-perfect.

marky · Post by **marky** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 4:58 pm

Cocktails with Bill Gates. That would be something.

Well I take a perverse sort of pleasure in hearing that you and yours hate it there, Tommy. I have another friend (a born and bred Washingtonian, in fact) who decided to move to Arizona along with her husband and child. Many of her friends here warned her that even if she could gloat about having more sunshine she would *really* hate those hot summers. Well, we wished her well but now she says they hate it there and will be coming back the Pacific Northwest within a year! Ah the prodigal sons and daughters of the Pacific NW! Welcome back welcome back I say!

I'm also surprised to hear you've had a hard time selling the house in Seattle. I've always heard the market for houses here is hot, with more buyers than houses to go around.

My roommate recently got laid off from Microsoft. He was only to be a temporary worker, but they kept him on longer than he thought they would. Still, he said they screwed him at the very end of it, he was pretty upset. He's not one of my favorite people in the world, but he seemed really happy when he was working there.

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