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I ate dinner at a French restaurant in Pike Place called Cafe Campagne. Feels very strange eating alone. Once in a while, you see those people off in the corner of a restaurant all by themselves, and wonder if they have some kind of vaguely-defined problem. After today, I'll just assume they're using up a company-provided food credit.

Also forgot to mention a very cool feature on the Air Canada flight over here: Real-time updates of our plane's status. The fold-down overhead displays rotated between screens displaying speed, time to arrival, altitude, our position on a map, and a top-down view of the plane indicating which window to look out to view assorted landmarks. For an information junkie like me, I couldn't keep my eyes off of it. I was mesmerized.

Lastly, I know I'm not supposed to include so many distinct points in a single post, but I can't help it. Here's another: Seattle seems to have a huge number of homeless people living downtown, most of them panhandling. Makes sense, I guess, given the year-round mild climate. But it makes the city a little scary at night.