You see Joe Liberman hanging out with your high school driver’s ed teacher.

Last weekend, we headed up to Berkeley to take the tour at the Scharffen Berger chocolate factory. We learned about it watching Bay Area Backroads. It was actually pretty educational and we got to taste various states of chocolate ingredients and qualities of chocolate. Some of them were pretty nasty. I expected to be more …

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Literally. We came home to another ant infestation. The ants had formed a solid conga line from the study window down across the carpet, up the desk, under the keyboard and behind the laptop to an apparently very tasty box of Ritz crackers. Uggh, Raid gives me such a headache!

Freddy vs. Jason was the #1 movie at the box office for the second week in a row. Truly, we’ve abandoned all hope of good taste.

Well, I finally won an eBay auction today for a new monitor. It’s a flat-screen Dell UltraSharp 20 incher. Should be pretty nice. I know a bunch of people who have one and they all love them. $770 seems like a lot to pay for a monitor, but I figure it all works out. The …

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You’ve got to give a company credit when their PR person can say something like this: “It’s time to return Al Franken to the obscurity that he’s normally accustomed to,” Fox News spokeswoman Irena Steffen said.

Who said only tennis players can have tantrums on the field?

Here’s something that doesn’t happen to me every day: I nearly got arrested.

“I can’t be lactose-intolerant – I’m Dutch!” — Overheard