weird work story of the day: today I met (former?) billionaire J William Oldenburg, an elderly and dapper man, who is, according to his be-impressed-by-me-and-the-famous-people-I-know monologue (that he clearly thought passed for polite conversation), “a close personal friend of Donald Trump” who had “advised him not to run for president” and “known all three of his wives”

after googling him I discovered that apparently a lot of Seattlites have had similar close encounters of the J William Oldenburg kind.