IN BEAVER COUNTRY: I'm in Portland this morning for a meeting. Seems like a nice town, almost like a hipper version of Cincinnati. Maybe it's the mountains that up the hip quotient. Oh, and the hippies. There are a lot of hippies here. Of course hippies up the "fragrance" quotient, too, but you gotta take the good with the bad. There's a "clog superstore" across from my hotel. So either the hippies have a serious foothold here, so to speak, or there are a lot of nurses in this neighborhood.

I'm thinking hippie nurses. Huge clog market!