Stuff is here. It's been six weeks since it was all packed up and three weeks since we took occupancy of the apartment, but there were all kinds of dull and annoying moving snafus. But stuff is here for me to enjoy until leaving for Austin again in a week, where I'll be for ten days. A bachelorette party will be one of my activities if anyone has any deranged entertainment to suggest; clown stripper, perhaps?

It rains a lot up here. For instance, it's the 12th, and Portland's already received the same amount of rain it usually receives for the entire month of January. Also, it's slow at work.

One customer sat in the club for about an hour, then left, then returned a half hour later.

"Where'd you run off to?"
"Oh, I had to take my little girl out for a while. She's waiting outside in the truck."
Dear lord, I have to get up and tell management someone's left a kid outside in his car.
"Uh . . . "
"She's a six-month-old yellow Lab."
Oh, thank god.
"Ahhh. Hah hah hah."

That was about the most interesting thing that happened today.