Friends’ house, under the furniture, returned car rental, where is it?
Loved this post from a great editor I’ve worked with before: With so much bad news I want to share this good news: After searching everywhere for four days, have finally found where I left my favorite mug. (The handle is extraordinarily comfortable.) Went to friends house to see if …
Read More
Oops, lost every city residents’ data in late night out
Man loses USB flash drive with data on entire city’s residents after night out Note to self: don’t go out with every city residents’ data in my pocket.
Read More
Darling, I lost my wedding ring, because my shoes were too smelly
Darling, I lost my wedding ring, because my shoes were too smelly. How convenient that Sir Andrew Barron Murray OBE lost his wedding ring and not his Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) medal from HRH Prince William, Duke of Cambridge. Luckily, eventually the knighted …
Read More
New type of hair brush
This is not the instrument I used this morning to brush my teeth. It is the instrument I used this morning to brush my hair, after my comb was nowhere to be found. I had to use a toothbrush (from the travel bag they gave me in the airplane) to …
Read More
The energy to look for keys
Allison went into my office saying: “Can I borrow your keys to my car? I can’t find my keys and I don’t have energy to look for them.” Ironically, she was on her way to the gym. So she left with my keys. Later I saw them by the front …
Read More
The great phone search
Usually when I can’t find my phone around the house, I use another phone to text a special code to my phone that takes it out of silence mode and makes it start ringing, which makes it easy to find. But this time, right when we were about to go …
Read More
Are those your socks?
“Are those your socks on the street?”, asked my wife, as we approached our car after attending the San Jose Earthquakes soccer game. Yep.
Read More
One unfolding surprise after the next
“Be whisked away by one unfolding surprise after the next“, read the brochure for the hotel where my hosts lodged me. And indeed, I was surprised rather frequently during my stay, mostly by the beautiful artwork all over the place, like this wall one saw upon exiting the elevator on …
Read More
He belongs
And there I was, up in the stands, watching the U2 concert from the distance, while my future brother-in-law was down in the pit, 10 feet from Bono. I was rooting for him to have a great time, which he did. Little did I know that that night I’d also …
Read More