Emerald City Salutations

Yo checkit, live from just outside Seattle. It's been a blast thus far, with all flights working out (eventually: had a rather frightening companion on the first leg and nearly got seperated on the second), plenty of beer and baseball and navigating a path while rich brats ran amok at the mall of the rich (that would be Belle Square in Bellevue) and used book shopping and... stuff. I shall opine further as it all sinks in and absorbs...