If I cannot visit it myself, I shall have my agents do so and report back. I have friends and clients who work a block from that restaurant.

Neat, neat, neat. Thanks.

I hike in puma country. From now on I shall carry a large cardboard box to distract them. (Well, maybe just a laser pointer.)

What a great self limiting beverage. You can drink all you want until you cannot climb a 100 foot tree to get more.

Wow, "that" Alyssa Milano!

When I pay for three pounds of chicken at Sam's Club, I only get 2 lbs, 10 oz. A one terabyte hard drove only show 931 gigabytes on my computer. Now I know why.

Mrs Monkey Mask must be a very happy woman.

I once had the pleasure of dining with the woman who was in charge of script approval for all of a network's daytime dramas. She had to compete against lurid talk shows and sitcom reruns. Her strategy was to develop characters people cared about and hope DVRs would save the genre.

I did not leave the ranks of healthy people. They left me.

I have been trying to buy a backpack for the last two months. None of them fit because they are built for adult males with waist sizes of 32" (references on request).

Alex, it leaves out quite a few items. For example, you never have to suffer through explaining "Honorary Marriages" to people who say Bono has a doctorate from your university.