We had a pretty pleasant weekend in Baltimore, but at times it felt super strange to be back in a town that I’d calld home for so long.

Yeah, this wasn’t the first time I’d been back since the move to Vermont, and (on the last trip, I think) it had alreay felt kind of weird. But it’s another thing entirely to fly in to what you still sort of assumed was kinda-alittle like home….and rent a car. And forget how to get around. And have things look so BIG.

But you don’t go back for the things, you go back for the people, and the people were great. Joe and Amanda couldn’t have been better friends and better hosts, Getting to hang out with Ben and Tara and Tom and Maura Leigh was great, and we got to put in an appearance at a party thrown by some other friends and stay the last night in DC at yet another friend’s and we even had a cameo by Pete.

Friends, friends, friends, friends. Good times.

Today has been…umm…. well, it’s almost over. That’s about the best I can do.

I’ve been tired. Tired and dragging. My eyes feel like they want to dry up and crumble out of my head.

And then, as a favor to someone, I was asked to call someone else and try to help them with a problem they were having, which I did. Or tried to do. What really happened is that I got a pretty big dose of attitude. It was quite clear that the person on the other end of the phone thought I was an imbecile and was wasting their time. As a lovely little capstone, at the end of the conversation, the person on the other end of the line tried to get all chatty with me. I was so stunned, I sort of robotically went along with it.

Infuriating and weird.