So far, the weather…

…is looking like it will hold for next Saturday and we will kick off the Yearbook project. We continue to get people signing up. If you want to participate, write us at events@exoticsat.com and we’ll add you to the list. I’m also adding this energy saving button if cutting and pasting seems like an extreme activity at the moment. Who knows what you just did. There is going to be swag, including handing out extremely expensive air guitars.

I started working on the E@RTC donut circle. I tell you what, there are a lot of donut shops that are highly rated but suck. We’re also looking for congregation points. We’re not even sure this idea will work, but we want to do something that gets everyone out this winter. We’re also pondering some rolling meetups, where we spend the day at a location to meet and greet and people can show up at their convenience. The problem we’re trying to solve is the mass of people hitting a restaurant all at once. The restaurants never like that. It’s like picking up everyone at the bar at 2 AM, it’s quickly diminishing returns, and you deeply regret the next day.

I have to admit, after a couple of bad donut shops, I was ready to go home. I already think Top Pot kind of sucks, but that’s just me, so it’s not on the list. You can tell their donuts came from far away and are already dry and flavorless. In fact even the small chains were not good on our hunt so far.

We also need a congregation point somewhere in route. We’re sorting out a few suggestions. The problem is if they are good, they tend to already be crowded. It’s a lesson for you budding entrepreneurs who want to be in the restaurant business. Just go out of your way to make a great product! There are a lot of ho-hum places out there. Too many!

We’re also skipping Seattle entirely so nobody is just stuck in traffic. We’re especially staying out of the downtown core, which is now kind of empty and is primarily occupied by mostly peaceful undocumented pharmacists.

We want this to be a drive you enjoy between food stops. We’re welcome to any great suggestions. The usual suspects are already on the list, but we’d love to find something new. With COVID causing us to lose our season, we’d like to make it up somehow through the winter. We may even do a special E@RTC event to commemorate when we’d start in February.

Please join us for the yearbook photo shoot. You don’t have to be in the photo with your car if you don’t want, but we’d love it if you were. We hope to see you next Saturday!