Buying the New Yorker 1996 - page 35

I was preparing a nice long riff on "things that are warm" when my wife leaned over to check up on what I was doing.

"They're in San Rafael?" She asked. "What do they know about 'warm things?'" Good question. She's lived in Wisconsin, in a house on the North Sea and in the Bay Area, where Warm Things sell their goods, so she know whereof she speaks. The goose down robe looks nice for the sort of morning when the windows were left open on a night when the temp dropped down to the upper forties and you need something to hang out in while the coffee perks, not the sort of morning where you have to dig through two feet of snow to get the paper and the air outside is so cold that the air gets sucked out of your lungs and your eyes tear up and freeze shut.

Goose Down Robe - $89 in 1996, $89 in 2006.

The Duke Diet and Fitness Center is having a craft workshop next month. If you are knitting, then your hands are busy and you can't eat that big turkey pie. Knitting is a stress reliever as well, unless you are knitting while looking at that big turkey pie you can't eat cause your hands are full.

I couldn't find a site for Locators Incorporated, but this site came up as a google hit. It's a list of repair and replacement firms that is maintained by the US Coast Guard/US Dept. of Homeland Security. As near as I can figure, if you go off to sea with a set of Hummels, and they get damaged beyond repair (as certified by experts such as Locators Incorporated) you can put in a claim for replacement through the US Coast Guard/US Dept. of Homeland Security. Isn't that great? This is exactly why I am doing this. How would I ever have found this out without a stack of ten year old New Yorker ads? I love discovering this stuff.

Club Voyages is still listed in the Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism's Tourist Information Page, but the site is down at the moment. I suppose after all the Coast Guard/Hummel excitement the internet decided I needed a little time out.