this is where i live. i like my house on the hill. at night i can hear machines clanging around down in the port. tacoma is like baton rouge if baton rouge was next to the mountains. i like baton rouge. i especially like the kalamata salad dressing at avoyelles cafe on third street in baton rouge. i have been trying to eat salads for lunch pretty regularly, and it would be a lot easier if the avoyelles cafe salad dressing was sold in bottles in tacoma. the restaurants in tacoma are not great. there are some good ones though. at one place this week, an elderly lady asked me if the food was good. i said it was. she said "not great?". i said i did not give out "great" ratings very often. my parents owned a restaurant for a while. a seafood restaurant. that was hard work. when i lived in new york i was an environmental engineer. now i am a civil engineer. i like civil engineering much better. environmental engineering is basically industrial janitoring. civil engineering is all about making improvements.

now the sun is out.