I am leaving Washington again, this time for Portland where Auspice and her unindicted co-conspirators are having another housewarming party. For reasons of time and money, I am leaving Dulles at 0600 and spending seven hours with the good folks at Southwest Airlines before arriving at PDX, where Auspice will pick my jet-lagged ass up at the airport and drop it off at her place so I can recover. Goodnatured hijinkery will no doubt ensue over the course of the weekend until Tuesday, when I will be dropped off at PDX for a ten-hour hegira back to Dulles -change at Denver with a 3.5-hour layover, ugh.
If for some unfathomable reason you'd like to spend some time with us, you should probably contact Auspice since she is controlling the horizontal and the vertical; I'm just going to be the guy in the passenger seat smiling vacantly and waving to the confused pedestrians as we pass. Looking forward to seeing whatever noders turn up.