Best Thing to Happen to Me: Had a great lunch with Naomi, but getting my phone for $70 has to be the big winner.

So it was nice to have lunch with Naomi at the Rainbow Restaurant. I still get a kick out of having lunch with friends on a work week, there is something about it that makes me feel like I'm playing hooky. Wierd since I've been out of the corporate grind for like 4 years now! Other favorites are seeing a late night movie on a "school night" or waking a roommate,getting some food and watching a storm in the middle of the night, or calling in sick and doing something fun. I still remember the time Kristin and I went to Noah's Ark in Wisconsin Dell and I called FROM the park to my work (Wells Fargo) and told my boss I was sick!!!! Unbelievable. So What was your best hookie story?

Other funny event for the day: I was at Barnes and Noble by the Galleria and as I was checking out, some cops entered and went to the office behind the check out where there was a kid (probably 16-18)with a stack of books he had undoubtedly been caught shoplifting. Boy have times changed since I was a kid. I stalled as long as I could to see what books there were, but only could tell that they were likely some fiction and some text or how-to books of some kind. I hope the cops pointed out the fact there was a public library just across the street. What do you think the appropriate prosecution is for stealing books??? :-)