Good things about home

- Home grown tomatoes. How can they be so good and so so so much better than anything from a store? When I got home there were four big tomatoes ready to go, three past their due dates and no good, a couple to be ready soon and many more to come. The sungold, cherry tomato plant had gone crazy and there was a bucket's worth of the orange candy-like fruit. I ate two tuna sandwiches over the past couple days that each had an entire tomato. There were pretty much tomato and a bit of tuna and cheese between bread.

- Stars? Strangely, the stars are out tonight. I have to escort the roommate's stinky dog outside now, as she's too ill-behaved and stubborn to simply go out, pee and come back and she'll end up down the street or disappeared entirely for hours. It's not often one can see the stars in Portland, due to clouds, pollution and street lights everywhere. Usually, the sky is an eerie orange at night. But while presiding over dog's nightly pee-on-the-blueberries I spotted the Big Dipper. And right where it should be, off the handle of the Big D, was the North Star. There were even some other less famous visible stars scattered around the sky. Wish that happened more often.

- Doing nothing. I'd say that I was multitasking today, but I don't think that reading with tv on or downloading things on the computer can be called "tasks". Multilazing I guess.