Hey thenewgreen. Thanks for the encouragement. Couple of updates:

On that girl - okay so we didn't go out last week as described in the 2/22/2023 pubski. We DID go out on a date last night at a bar owned by one of the DJs from KEXP. Awesome night of fun conversation and flirting. We have a degree of similar interests, and other than that, not a lot of commonality. We're figuring out a night next week to go out again - either a concert, or dinner (or both?).

House show - the band was Heavy Gus which is this girl, her husband (who plays in The Lumineers), and the former drummer from Blind Pilot.

Awesome night. Beautiful house on one of the lakes near Seattle, open and spacious living room with high ceilings, you walk in and there's 40ish chairs set-up, a mostly older crowd of well established science-y and tech-y people, some of whom had their kids (who are more around my age), and super friendly atmosphere. I guess it helps when you know the host. Wine...everywhere...I got kind of wine drunk. Gorgeous piano in the room, man, just a fun night of music and meeting some new people. Hoping to go to the next show this new-friend is putting on in April.