I just found a ginger cookie in my backpack--it traveled back down to LAX with me from Healdsburg, CA. It's a bit dry but I'm still going to eat it.

Notes on my birthday weekend out of town coming up soon. I've been preoccupied by the Triangle Fire, or the Complex Fire, or...why do we have to give our fires names now? Hope the Empire and Valley readers of Empirical are safe.