70 degree weather is perfect for indoor chess

It's one of the nicest days yet this spring, and do you know how people spent it? Indoors, playing chess. For an intense 12 hours. The catering business Emily works for had one of their biggest events yet-- a grueling all-day chess match with 8,000 of the Northwest's finest geeks. They were lined up in long rows in multiple rooms like the one pictured below. Participants came in all shapes, sizes, ages, and likelihoods to ever speak to a member of the opposite sex.

Microsoft recruiters should have just set up shop.

After stopping in to visit Emily and assess the post-mortem lunch situation that had transpired from 8,000 hungry participants looking for more "brain food", I headed back to Seattle.

I keep forgetting how nice this place is in the summer months. Such a difference.