Train trip

By the time this posts, I should be out of Portland, in transit limbo. I’ll be traveling to Virginia to visit my family. We’re going in style, on Amtrak, taking the Empire Builder to Chicago and riding in a room. So I won’t be around for the next few days to approve comments or answer emails, and I’m not sure how often I’ll be on the computer while I’m back East. Otherwise, I feel a little ill, but that might be anxious anticipation; and I’ve got a big stack of books to read on the train and my Armenian lessons to catch up on. (I am now competent to invite a young woman up to my flat for drinks. Unfortunately, once she’s there, I have no option way to communicate anything else to her; although I can offer her more drinks! – or make another date for later, when hopefully I will have learned the signs of the zodiac, and we can discuss destiny and character and fate.)