I'm still in Eureka, but now with hopes that tomorrow morning the case will settle and I will return to sunny Southern Humboldt.



In the meanwhile I've been eating to keep body and soul together. The Hue restaurant is about 1 block from the Townhouse Motel where I stay, but I always thought of it as a lunch spot until last night. We were heading for the Mexican restaurant on 5th (Rita's?) but Hue was open and we went in. Delicious SE Asian food, just like at lunch. I forwent the Thai tea since it was evening and had wine. Wrong choice, so I got a Sapharo beer instead. Just right.



I've always been a cat person, and have a personal superstititon that seeing a cat when I'm away from home is lucky. This afternoon as I returned home from getting a beard trim at the City Barbershop and walking for some exercise, I spotted this one sleeping sitting up in the window, absorbing the heat from the occasional sun I would say. Talk about luck, when I got back people had several new theories about the case, and one caller informed me that it was going to settle. We'll see, but since I've seen my lucky cat, it's bound to happen. Note: It did settle the next morning after a number of twists and turns.

Once, back in the '60s, when I was a hippie flower child, I had a shirt with a pattern that looked remarkably similar to these flowers which I spotted around 3rd & I. I believe I was roadie for the Blues Project and living in New York when the fashion storm overcame me.