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1.  I am a father.
2.  My son is in Indiana with my wife.  They'll come here on the train.
3.  Here is Spokane, which rhymes with "can," not train.
4.  I am here.
5.  The Jeep's a/c died fully just before Wyoming, which is a hot, windy state to pass through with your windows open in July.
6.  My boxes and stuff arrived this morning, in a truck driven by a Polish fella named Raphael.
7.  There are lots of boxes.  There is lots of stuff.  There is a leak in a pipe in the basement, so I must call the plumber.
8.  Also, Comcast.  I shall have cable Internet after I call Comacast.
9.  Comcastic!  Bam!  (I saw the new Batman.  There were no cartoon punching-sound bubbles.  There was suspense and death.  It was good, but was it the kind of good you watch over and over?  Who knows?  Zappo!)
10.  Right now, there isn't even any Wi-Fi to steal in my neighborhood.
11.  This coffee house is pretty good and has library tables and free Wi-Fi.  It's called the Rocket.
12.  The free Wi-Fi at the Dude Rancher hotel in Billings didn't really work.  But at least it was free.  Free nothing.  Thanks for nothing for free, Dude (Rancher).
13.  Diamond the dog seems to like to sleep on the landings of staircases when there is too much chaos. 
14.  It's good to drive 2000 miles with a friend and to get a little sunburn on your arm after the A/C goes out.
15.  There are poisonous spiders in Spokane that are different from Indiana spiders.  This is a concern.
16.  There were prairie dogs in the backyard of Josh's apartment in the middle of a Denver suburb.  Diamond had never seen such messed up rabbits.  "I would like to chase the freak rabbits, please," she said.  "I would like them to not hide in those deep holes, please," she said.
17.  Bill Mallonee played here last night, and we saw him play, Todd, Heidi, and I.  Very intimate, very nice.  How does he make any money?  I'm glad he still plays; it has cost him, and it has benefited me.  I felt good about paying the cover charge.
18.  Sometimes you want to include a lyric that you can't quite remember, about how you hope people remember the best parts of you even when they know the worst parts of you.  Something like that.  Something sung like Bill would sing it.  Something that makes nostalgia hurt.
19.  I am scruffy and need to shave.
20.  I am here.  I am go-getting, and I am sleeping.  Say hello with email or Facebook if you can't say hello in person.

Two interesting things to take a look a this morning:

The Pickens Plan for managing the energy crisis with wind

Jonah Goldberg on the culture of service