Over the holidays I decided to try to organize a few corners of my life and spent some money at levenger.com on a new wallet (turns out to be too small), notebook for work (pretty nice since pages can be added to it and moved around), and a coin purse to hold what always seems to be several dozen dollars in change. The coin purse is a handy place to stow my jewelry while doing the physical therapy thing. Until I took out my watch and realized that while in the coin purse it had stopped. As soon as I put it back on my wrist it started again, just needing to have the time adjusted. Who would have thought that a little magnet in the clasp of the coin purse could have such an effect. Perhaps storing it next to my cell phone and Blackberry isn’t such a wise idea…

(On a very marginally related note, there used to be a computer game called Leather Goddesses of Phobos in the style of the original Adventure game - all text based, so you had to use your imagination to picture the Leather Goddesses - and somewhere in it was a command called "Magento" that did something to a boat you were trying to steer, but it never had the desired effect as I recall.)

Next month I will be traveling to Mexico on a company trip. The resort we’ll be visiting claims to have “in-room liquor dispensers”. I have this image of spouts protruding from the wall, under which you place your mouth, no need for the intermediate step of putting the liquor in a glass. I’ve never been to Mexico – it *could be* that this is what they mean.

They also have a Zen walking labyrinth. I hesitate to even speculate about what this might entail. And 4 Swiss showers, for that completely neutral feeling. This could just go on and on.