(I know, I know, I used the dreaded B-word.. But only to make a bigger, even cheesier word, so I say it's okay. Also, Photoshop just crashed with twenty minutes of unsaved scans in its belly. Let that be a reminder to you to save early, save often, and don't trust no sucker application with your data. I'm sending the crash report to Apple out of spite.)

Most people go on vacation to spend time away from the computer, but I'm looking forward to a week of avoiding work and catching up on my China reportage. (My posts now seem to be either promises for upcoming posts or apologies for not posting what I promised, so consider this one all of the above.) I'm headed down to LA tomorrow along with Cabel and Mike and either Josh or John, can't remember (so we'll just call him Jo??, pronounced /jaw-unnh?/) to hit E3 and see friends, and also to remind myself again why I live in Portland and not Southern California. And to deliver unto Molly's brother and his girlfriend splendid Gifts from the Orient. And in the interstices I plan to push the keys on this keyboard in the right order to convey something interesting about our trip to China. (Photoshop just crashed again, so I won't be working on any new scans.) But really I'll be thinking about the sailing trip and wondering what it'll be like three weeks from now when I'm back home and don't have any big trips coming up.

(ALSO! I have to post this from LA because Blogger has been crap lately. Yes! We're in LA now! Uh.. Woooo!)