Well, I'm here. In Seattle, my new home for the next...while. At least a few years. I don't want to speculate too much.

Getting here was relatively uneventful - the movers came (on time!), packed all of my earthly belongings, put 'em on a truck, and took off. It was all pretty easy - like, so easy I felt kinda bad about it. The only downside was when the movers tried to use a dolley to take some boxes out, but left a few grease marks on the carpet in my living room - oh well, I don't live there anymore. They say they're going to take care of it, so it's Peter's problem now.

After the move, Dawn and I headed up to Chicago - in her overheating deathtrap. We made it to the city, however (by getting off the highway early and taking surface roads downtown to avoid sitting in traffic and overheating), and then wandered Michigan Avenue for a while until dinner at Grand Lux Cafe. I highly recommend it. Then off the the Doubletree O'Hare, to the biggest room in history (no pictures, sorry, but it was awesome), a good night's sleep, a quick breakfast, a slightly misty good-bye and onto the plane. The plane was nice, aisle seat in an exit row, roomy and wonderful. While on the plane, I read the entirety of Three Nights in August, a book about Tony La Russa, baseball, managing, and other baseball stuff. If you like baseball, it's a good read - I don't think anyone's ever been able to talk to La Russa that much ever - it kinda redeems the fact that he spends 90% of his life scowling.

Off the plane, get the bags, get the rental car - after waiting 10 minutes because the woman in front of me had apparently reserved a rental car not understanding that part of the agreement to do so is that you are a LICENSED DRIVER. She didn't understand why the clerk wouldn't give her a car just because she didn't have a driver's license. Whatever. Drove the the city, found my temp apartment (apparently in the hippest apartments in the city, they're OK - pictures later.) Then I called all my Seattle contacts (Michael and my cousin Laura), and made arrangements. I went over to Michael's, we went out to Redmond to meet some of his fellow interns, then came back to the city and went to a gay bar (Manray), which was...interesting. Good times. I ended up staying in Michael's roommate's vacant bed, because it turns out that a few vokda tonics have the effect of far more if you haven't really eaten all day and it's the equivalent of four in the morning. Good times.

Then this morning, when I wandered around downtown with Michael and Noah, and then drove out to the University Village to buy my new MacBook. I was not going to able to make it for a month without any kind of computer, so I bit the bullet. I didn't get any of the options, I'll add them on later, but I just needed something now. It's wonderful, I'll report on it more fully a little later. For now, Michael and I are going to go work out so I can check out his gym, and then later we're going to a comedy club to see one of his co-workers perform. That's about all from me.

Hooray for Seattle (I think I might like it here.)