Google search result: ""black socks" +work"

Yahoo search result: ""diddy diddy bang bang""

Yahoo search result: ""sofa sale""

There's a Weetabix box in the dumpster.

There's a yellow house
On Venice Way.
I'm sure it wasn't yellow
The other day.

Hmmm....something appears to be very wrong. If you can see this --- or anything posted after 2:24pm yesterday --- please let me know, because I can't see it.

Not that you're missing much, you understand, but still....

Survey
(send your responses to the usual address)
1. Bits or pieces?
2. The devil you know or the devil you don’t?
3. Elbows or knees?
4. For richer or poorer?
5. The heebie-jeebies or the screaming Abdabs?
6. A kiss or a cuddle?
7. Magic markers or Sharpies?
8. Palm tree or the palm of my hand?
9. A seller of watches or a watcher of cells?
10. Sugar or spice?

Google search result: ""DM shoes""

Next time Mrs. McCloskey tells me that I won't need a jacket when we go to a museum, I should listen to her.

4:15-5:05pm: had a nap.

Plus we saw some Renoirs, Monets, Cezannes, a Munch and a Van Gogh.

Spent the morning surrounded by old women with immaculately-lacquered hair, looking at photographs of itinerant pea pickers in the Dust Bowl.

Vanity plates (a Getty Centre parking structure special):

OTIUM (silver CRV)
WIN WEB (blue Explorer)
CONRADA (Acura of indeterminate hue)
SCOFI (grey Lexus)
WER VAN (white Aerostar)
PCH PPL (beige Explorer)
REAL LOV (black Lexus)
ROBODOG (dirty 4Runner)
JTS (silver Lexus)
ONDATEE (red Accord)
SAMBA 13 (black Range Rover)
KMGB (black Lexus SUV)

More useful Finnish phrases:

Can I get to Jyväskylä today? Pääseekö tänään Jyväskylään?
I know a good discotheque. Tiedän hyvän diskoteekin.
Somewhere in the middle. Jostakin keskeltä.
This isn’t my laundry. Tämä ei ole minun pyykkini.
Where does this wine come from? Mistä tämä viini on kotoisin?

Jerry's Famous Deli: glass of Coke, chocolate fudge cake (shared with Mrs. McCloskey).

In SavOn: group of French people reading a map.

But no catnip. Makes you think, eh?

Vanity plates:

EGZACLY (blue Taurus)
POSBLTI (white Saturn)

Here's an idea for you: if you need to get rid of your old Christmas tree, but you're too lazy to dispose of it in a proper way, why not just dump it on our street? After all, it's not as if we care, right?

Earthlink search result: "bookcase for paperbacks"

There's a minivan in our parking space. Of all the nerve....

But now I see that the red stool on which the ficus is standing is actually pointing the wrong way. I should take care of that today.

The ficus is still in the same place.

We're celebrating New Year's Eve by moving furniture around. The bookcase which was by the front door is now next to the living-room door, where the dresser used to be, and the dresser which was by the living-room door is now next to the front door, where the bookcase used to be.

The guy in charge of the produce counter at Ralphs looks like Poppy from Seinfeld. Bit disconcerting to see him handle all the fruit and veg....

Vanity plates:

00 BLUE (blue Subaru)
SCHUDEL (grey Mercedes)
A+E LAW (green Chrysler)

Books I read this year:

Woman Of The Dunes, Small World, Double Indemnity, Madame Bovary, Walk Two Moons

The Collector Collector, Ulysses, Mao II, A Tale Of Two Cities, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall, Rommel? Gunner Who?, Monty: His Part In My Victory, Mussolini: His Part In My Downfall, Where Have All The Bullets Gone?, Goodbye Soldier, Peace Work

The Great Gatsby, Foucault’s Pendulum, A Very Long Engagement, Lolita

Catch 22, The Woman In White, The Hitch Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy

The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe, Life, The Universe And Everything, So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish, Mostly Harmless, Why Do Women Write More Letters Than They Post?, The Big Sleep, Jitterbug Perfume

Fever Pitch, The Maltese Falcon, Devil In A Blue Dress, A Red Death, White Butterfly, Serenade, Farewell, My Lovely, The Long Goodbye, White Jazz

England’s Dreaming, Testament

A Rumour Of War, Tristram Shandy, 1984, Gagarin And I, Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Sophie’s World

Red Dragon, The Silence Of The Lambs, The Weirdstone Of Brisingamen, Interesting Facts About The State Of Arizona, Deny All Knowledge: Reading The X-Files, Moo, The Satanic Verses, A Prayer For Owen Meany

Freaky Deaky, Neither Here Nor There, If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller, The Iliad

Of Love And Other Demons, Made In America, The Thought Gang

Blue Taurus driving along Venice Way with a can of Diet Pepsi on the roof.

Vanity plates:

BLK CRWS (beige Chevy Blazer)
OUTTA TM (white Toyota Celicia)

I don't know why you're here: you should be reading The roll.

Stupid names for vehicles: the Citation

If I were you, I'd stay clear of the Gummi Worms at Rotten Robbie too.

Restrooms to avoid on the 5 between Sacramento and LA:

Rotten Robbie, Santa Nella
McDonald's, Gorman

(Trust me, you'll be glad I told you.)

LK was pleased to see us again.

I thought I had filled out a Vacation Mail Hold form at the post office, so that all our mail would be held for collection when we got home, but obviously I filled out the form asking the mailman to stuff as many items of mail as possible into our mailbox when we were out of town.

Vanity plates:

GOIN GRA (silver BMW)
BEAR RAY (blue GMC truck)
MEZ (green Acura)
DYHANAS (white Mitsubishi Mirage)
4 TIGER (white Toyota Sienna)
OLD NASS (white Plymouth Voyager)
ITS DMS (beige Yukon)
4 SHERM (red Cadillac)
C ALEXA (black Accord)
DOCS BMR (blue BMW)
Y ASCK Y (blue Taurus)
MANOLO 4 (black Merc)
LOVE RAT (blue Volvo)
NATO 1 (red Dodge 4x4)

Hmmmm....