Another Not Hot Day For Us

Tuesday:  No 70 degree weather, but no rain either. Any day when it's not raining these days is a good day.

If you want heat, try one of the sauces from California Tortilla's hot sauce shelf. They'll make your chills disappear pretty fast.

On this day in history in 1931, the first nonstop transpacific flight was completed from Sabishiro Beach, Japan to Wenatchee, Washington. The flight took 41 hours and 13 minutes and covered 4,860 miles. The pilots were Hugh Herndon and Clyde Pangborn.

Minding Your Pens and Keys

I was in the Cleveland Park Post Office a few days ago and happened to notice a customer using a strange-looking pen to fill out a form. Actually, I couldn't avoid noticing it because the pen was at least three times the normal length, and at the non-writing end it erupted into a gargantuan red flower. When I got to the postal window and had to sign a receipt, the clerk handed me a similarly-sized pen, this one topped by a flaming orange bloom. I signed and handed the pen back to the clerk, and then went across the street to California Tortilla, where I found the pen to be used for signing the credit card slip quite normal -- but attached to the counter by a mighty chain, one that would work just as well for tethering a ship's anchor. There is no way on earth a customer could walk off with that Cal Tort pen.