The office is clean but ... I moved cartons of books and other stuff into the guest room that I now have to clean out for the house guests coming tomorrow. Oh well. I have a few cubbyholes in the office to hide the ones that don't go to the garage.

I picked up my fishing license with steelhead card today. I need to get my flycasting up to par, uh, since I've had a hiatus of 37 years. I know this as I found my last fishing license dated 1979. The reason for getting my casting back in swing is that I'm going up to the Northwest Territories in August to catch northern pike and lake trout. I normally don't do trips like this but I was invited by a friend. Well, that and it's been a lifelong dream to do this. When I was a kid, I read Field and Stream magazine and there was always an ad in the back for lake trout fishing in the NWT. The ad showed a beaming guy with his thumbs in the gills of the fish and the tail dragging on the ground. Now I'm going to get to be that guy.

When I gallery sit tomorrow, I will put together the program for the chocolate tasting. I'm briefly going to cover the history of chocolate, strains of cacao, and how chocolate is made. I also have some snappy quotes about chocolate to throw in.