Right now I'm sitting just beyond security in PDX, working frenetically on a website that I'm going to have to show results on very soon.

Today was a full day at the office, then a brief headlong dash for the airporter, followed by car pursuit of said airporter (a successful chase, with NailinCoffin at the wheel). But we landed here, safe and sound, despite what the pilot called "severe" turbulence.

TSG and I have been apart from each other for fifteen entire, heart-wrenching days, and in minutes, minutes, ladies and gentlemen, those just outside this terminal will witness a homecoming scene.

Yesterday I got a call from work just as I was about to head to work (8:30am) and that triggered a more or less relaxed, and more or less un-productive day of rest, recuperation, and sometimes work at home. However, it was necessary for sanity, and for the continued and improved performance of TheGenius.

At work I now have the GeniusCave (tm), which happens to be the ONLY office that has a door which closes. It became my de facto office when I (cunningly?) appropriated an entire wall for my rack of shiny new servers. The current running joke about the GeniusCave has something to do with the fact that I never have the florescent overhead lights on, just my one incandescent bulb, and my window shades up, so that my two little house plants can live.

Yesterday I also planted my Basil plants, one some kind of blue basil; the other a Genovese. Also, my last cherry tomato plant went into the last pot, and I fertilized some of the other guys, and rearranged the watering system to boot.

The basil plants weren't going to fit in the pots -- especially because they grow to five feet, and then are supposed to be trimmed back to three -- so I planted them in the ground. I gave them lots of organic potting soil, so we'll just have to wait and see what happens.

For now, I'm with (almost) my love in sunny (almost) Portland. Cheers.