For those of you who don’t know, the CEO changed jobs a month or two back. I’m still at my same office in SW Portland, but I very explicitly (in the course of business I swear a lot) work for the L.A. based parent company that owns my previous employer. Please allow me to use three words to describe my current work set-up: Awesome. And Totally Awesome. My boss and his boss (CEO of the company) are in the City of Angels. They don’t ever visit Portland.

Related: today at work I wore what I like to think of as “business shorts”. They were clean and expensive (got ‘em at Nordstrom after all) but still they were shorts, Tommy Bahama label be damned. In the Portland office anyway I am finally at the point where I can wear whatever the hell I want to and nobody will lift an eyebrow. Sweet. Basketball shorts and Def Leppard t-shirts are in my very near future I think.