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No, I don't have the book. I preordered it from Amazon but didn't choose the "deliver on July 16, bitches" deal that everyone else did.

I do have a Benoit, who finally got here safe and sound after USAirways decided to delay his flight like ninety times.

I also got to see Justin and Colleen's house. It is clean, which is scary.

Hiking in a few hours. Oops on the "going to sleep early" thing, but you know how it is catching up with people you haven't seen in a billion years. Charlie, you have to visit sometime too.

Rafael Palmeiro got his 3000th hit tonight and I wasn't there :(

Arr.

Here there be Dragons

Today eub, mh75, bhudson and I went to Mount Rainier and hiked all day through the Paradise trails. We saw pretty flowers, huge trees, uppity chipmunks, and occasionally, through the fog, the top of the mountain. I am sure Eli will post pictures at some point -- I took some too, but most of mine were probably not as good as his, although I did get a shot of said uppity chipmunk trying to get into our bags, which was cute. I didn't see any marmots (the others did when they went up a final hill without me), but we did see a lot of deer. They flap their ears! Flap-flap, flap-flap. It's very cute. All the animals on the trail seemed extremely tame, which I suppose isn't that unexpected.

I saw a lot of landforms and plants that reminded me of dragons when we did the Grove of the Patriarchs trail, so "It's a dragon!" sort of became my cheer for the day.

My legs ache, but it was a good day. Afterwards Eli and Benoit and I went to Taste of India and caught up on gossip.