I had quite a fun day yesterday, went hiking at Mt. Rainier for the first time. Weather was glorious, scenery spectacular and no flying lava!

For dinner I went to Georgia's Greek Restaurant to see friends (and Shark Blog readers!) Hank Bradley and Cathie Whitesides play Greek music with co-star Yanni Novakis. They played Misirlou and Hava Nagila. Lechaim! Efkharisto! And the halibut was excellent.

Then the belly dancers came out. Yow. I'd like to be able to tell you that somebody kept handing me shots of something and pushed me out on the floor with the belly dancers, that I don't remember anything more about the evening; that I didn't wake up until noon -- on my front lawn, with a splitting headache, an empty ouzo bottle lying next to me and an unfamiliar tattoo on my left buttocks. But that would be a tall tale. I woke up at 8 and how would I know whether or not there was a tattoo on my backside?