Highlights: Enjoying a rainy day. Writing from within a warm, dry coffee shop. Meeting Brett, a friend of Jen and Vanessa’s, who is facing an imminent demise from Pancreatic cancer. That was sobering. What I routinely try to embrace as eventual is absent the fixed, finite amount of time he’s facing. I don’t know what I’d do with my time were that presented as my circumstance, I should be doing whatever that might be, every day, anyway. Our day ended with dinner at Aqui (I gorged myself on chips) and the "Depeche Mode" laser show at DeAnza with Jess and Bev. It was a vastly different experience from the others I’ve been to, and it made for a pleasant outing. I’ll likely return for Metallica.