February in Seattle has the same quality as Portland but more water in it.
Nathan notices this because he has started noticing weather. Not tracking it, not optimizing around it, just — noticing. The way the morning light comes through the apartment windows that face west and gives him nothing useful in the AM, which he always knew and never thought about. The way the rain sounds different on the windows at night than it does in the afternoon. The way the city looks from his apartment when the cloud breaks briefly and the sound does its brief spectacular thing with the light before everything goes grey again.
He has been noticing these things for six weeks. Since Portland. Since walking in the rain through the Pearl District and the hotel entrance and the third row.
He attributes this to unallocated hours.
