Seems we had a week choc-full-o’ familiar faces. We stayed with Stephen J, someone Zach and I grew up with. We visited for a whole day with the Martins, our good friends from home who happen to be visiting Seattle for a bar mitzvah. Then, my pal Stephanie’s man, Shawn Crawford, was in town with Jiffy Marker from Vancouver who were playing a record-release show at the Comet Tavern in Capitol Hill.  The band people were acquaintances too. Stephen, Zach and I also met up with Jess Hamilton + Jim Carey (also NY folk) and closed out a little dive-bar called The Knarr one night. We just seemed to have dropped in on a good moment and it was nice to be with some non-strangers for a change. We’ve made a lot of wonderful new friends on this trip, but a familiar face here and there feels relaxing in a whole different kind of way. Really nice to see everyone. So that was….lets see, about 10 people. Not bad timing for Seattle, right?