Won’t you help a Swede out? They’ve got all the lingonberries and meatballs they can stomach, but no Slurpees! Help bring Slurpees to Scandanavia!

Two years ago today, I got on the first flight out of L.A. after the airport was reopened. It was quite an experience. I didn’t have a blog back then, so I thought I would commemorate the anniversary with posting the essay I wrote a few days after our flight.

That’s really weird for Silicon Valley. It’s been so long since I’ve seen it rain here that I’ve almost forgotten what rain looks like. In New England everyone watches the weather religiously. They plan outdoor events and pray that it will be nice out that day. Large events like graduations always have an indoor venue …

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Last weekend at the Mountain View Art and Wine festival, they had something I’ve never seen before – sponsored restrooms. The Charmin “Ultra Potty Palooza” was there, which is a 18-wheeler sized trailer with about 20 individual restrooms in it. There were big plasma screens showing Charmin commercials and playing the Charmin ‘theme song’. Apparently …

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“Murphy’s revenge: The more reliable you make a system, the longer it will take you to figure out what’s wrong when it breaks.” – Sean Donelan

…but I don’t think if I was here, this would be on the top of my list of priorities.

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.