It was time to get to the outside world and see the
characters who make it great (and enjoy wearing PU hats).
I began by bringing my rental car
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with this license plate
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to the garage at UW and made my way to Ed Lazowska's
office. We went for a walk around the campus and met
his executive VP
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who seemed to be sweating about over runs in their
new building
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which didn't seem to be over-running to me
though I was glad we didn't have to go onto the walkways in
the old EE building.
After this elegant lunch
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Ed posed
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with the hat and then with the father of our country
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after whom the university was named. And the state for that matter.
For some reason, I was asleep at the switch and so missed the opportunity
to catch Rich Tong in his new hat. That will have to wait for the next trip.
Maybe I was thinking about this wonderful neon sign
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that we would pass on the way to dinner. My salad
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looked better than this and Jane's salad
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looked exactly like this. We each had the same main course but the
difference between my photo
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and hers
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can be attributed either to the fork in the picture or maybe to
the angle at which the flash executed.