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Sent books, and bought a smaller microwave. I know people who hate Best Buy, some of them related to me by blood, but twice now I've enjoyed being advised by a salesperson to buy the cheaper of the models I'm thinking of. "Tell me why this one's more expensive," I asked. "The color," he said, "I'd get the white one." Last time it was DVD/VCRs, and the answer was "The nameplate. I'd buy the Sanyo."

Leaving the post office, I took a turn off my virtual map of the area, navigated my way home, and after seven years living in Silicon Valley, learned how two places I sometimes go connect to each other. (De Anza College and my doctor's office.) Three things I passed were:

• A previously unknown Trader Joe's location.
• A woman in a bikini waving a sign up and down that said "COMPUTER REPAIR."
• A cornfield, or at least a planted field with signs out front that said "FRESH PICKED CORN."

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