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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."

Surely this information will be useful.

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I never thought that the saga of your first microwave could be so captivating.

It's all downhill from here.

let me guess - you went to the Best Buy on Harrison and discovered the TJs on Bryant and 9th where Bloodbath and Beyond is?

Interesting theory, but I live in the South Bay! It's a whole different geography down here. (We don't even have numbered streets, mostly.)

I DO NoT SPeak Your Crazy Moon Language.

Ha!