++ SCARY ITEM of the day: i was walking to go get lunch and i saw a homeless man mumbling incoherently while drinking a foe-ty (40) and brandishing his pocket knife while staring at me as i passed by him. creepy.

FUNNY ITEM of the day: i was walking back to my office and i saw a sign in a window that read, "chair for lease."

QFC: the (one of two) local QFC store has a seattle's best coffee 'house' which spills into the grocery store. this seattle's best coffee 'house' comes complete with a fireplace and a hearth. also attached to the QFC is a noah's bagels store which is kind of connected, but more so only through an opening connecting the two. its more part of the building and they just decided one day they were going to knock a hole through the wall and connect it to the grocery store. there are tables and chairs which sit in between the checkout counters and the noah's bagels store. they don't really belong to either. anyway, the point of me talking about these two items is i went there to get groceries last night about 10pm and i saw college kids hanging out at the grocery store. ok, not the grocery store per se, but the coffee shop and the table in between the grocery store and noah's bagels. granted this place is close to the university of washington, but still, a grocery store? i guess its a local "hang-out" spot and study area. there were students (i can only assume) studying at the tables which belong to neither the bagel shop or the grocery store and in the coffee shop. it was weird. only a college student would find 'fun' in an environment like this. when they get bored of sitting next to the hearth, they go to the books/magazine aisle and sit on the lfoor and read or go buy a drink and then go back and have their 'fireside evening chat.' amazing. ++