Bring on the Creamy Goodness

Rumor has it that Kawali Grill not only has great Filipino food, but also excellent eggs benedict. I've never understood why Geraldine's goes to such effort to be a breakfast place, yet they don't serve a single dish with hollandaise sauce. Everyone knows that hollandaise sauce is the only reason to go out to breakfast!

Columbia City's Population to Grow by 17%?

An interesting round-up of developers' plans in Columbia City can be found in this week's Stranger, written by CC denizen Erica C. Barnett.

The Wellington is no more

Well we thought this had happened last November, but we were mistaken.  Unfortunately, there's no mistaking it this time.

The store front in Columbia City that used to be The Wellington is now papered over, and while the website still seems to be up, the phone number has been disconnected.  It looks like The Wellington has moved on.

The admiral and I, after our close encounter with it being closed last November, did make it out there once.  And it was ok.  Nothing super great, kind of overpriced really.  I can't say that I'm too sad to see it go really, as I doubt we would have been going back all that often.

Now with the Wellington and Twinks Daycare gone, I'm curious what's happening along this tiny stretch of Columbia City.  Are rents rising a bit too fast perhaps?

Not dead! At least not yet

Oh woe is the Admiral and I.  It has been a new year of sickness, and this latest flu is a doozy.  Having way laid yours truly for about a week, it has now gotten it's grips on the Admiral.

I wonder - anybody know any good doctors in Columbia City?

Not that that will help now, mind you.  We are already laid low with the American Gladiator of disease laughing at our pathetic spandex clad defenses, unable to resist the onslaught.  But who knows.  Perhaps when it progresses to the point where I actually think my staircase is my own personal pyramid tower, and that jumping down that in a single bound is something any gladiator can do, I should know who to call, dontcha think?

Geez, even my posts don't make that much sense.  Ugh.

The sad, sad southeast schools

The Seattle Times has an article today on the sad state of enrollment in our very own southeast schools in Seattle.  It has very depressing comments such as

Of 1,645 Seattle Public Schools students for whom Rainier Beach was the closest high school in 2006, only 247 attended the school

and

As Julia Hibarger circled the fair, she found herself cornered by teachers and administrators eager to tell her the benefits of their schools. Her son, Dexter, starts kindergarten next year. She took their zeal with a grain of salt, she said. Some of their efforts were so desperate she found them a little sad.

The Seattle school district is planning on some big investments in the schools in the area to try and draw back the kids.  From the sounds of it, they've got a long road to travel.

Read the article here.