I am stats masheeen! I just finished my last final today, so now the Molecular Methods for crop Improvement - Hort 550, and Statistics 571 are under my belt. And so, too, is an early lunch. I’m borrowing sleep from the Void right now - gotta finish up a few things at work and then tomorrow I’m off to California for 2 weeks. I was hoping to post my last Mindcast episode before I left, but time is a crunchin’. It’ll have to wait until I get back.

Ariela and I are visiting my parents (or the parents as I always say) in Petaluma, first, and then they’re driving us down to LA to visit Ariela’s folks. Somewhere in the middle I guess my sister Jen is taking us to Santa Cruz and back, and I’m supposed to have a birthday on or about the 27th. It’s pretty much been decided that we’re eating at Cholada - a Thai restaurant on the PCH just north/west of the Pacific Pallisades, or in the vicinity of Malibu. It doesn’t look like much on the outside, but the food… mmmm. I don’t think we can go to LA without eating there.

“Not without my Cholada”

(For the uninitiated, this means everyone, we saw a mexican comedian make jokes about mexican versions of movies. “Not without my Daughter” became “Not without my Chola.” Hence, a trip to LA, “Not without my Cholada.”)