Monica Hesse’s Washington Post article, “You Can Take It With You: Marketing to Those on the Go” is utterly hilarious. Husband and I especially liked her take on Pocket Shots. Husband thinks someone should come out with “Drinkables” – little martini or vodka tonic kits to go with your Lunchables. I wasn’t excited about being up at 6 to go to a meeting, and this entertaining little article made the morning much more bearable.

On the subject of my itinerary, I keep getting questions about why I haven’t been blogging trips and events ahead of time anymore. I’m always cautious about how much information I divulge, but as a few of my readers have developed, um, boundary issues, it seems prudent not to advertise where I’m going to be ahead of time. Actually, I was advised not to do so by Trained Professionals. In fact, we debated whether even posting this was a good idea as any attention is good attention to these weirdos, it seems. It’s a fine line, and a pain in the rear end since it makes it hard to promote good causes with any kind of personal endorsement, but life goes on and fun is had, I just don’t mention it until later.

On that note, we’re now back from the [tag]Jersey Shore[/tag], which was not nearly as traumatic as I expected. It was even fun. And pretty. And home to [tag]Lucy the Elephant[/tag].

But the Atlantic waters were too damned cold to venture out into for a swim and I kept stepping on [tag]many-ribbed hydromedusae[/tag] that bore a creepy resemblance to breast implants so I’m not going to get toooo carried away with my praise. This time…