I think [link] is the recipe that Teppy originally hooked me up with. We make it with vegan cream cheese and cheese when our vegan friend is coming over, and it is made of win.

Tom, you are always welcome to visit us, but I think the Yellowstone idea is an excellent one. Maybe you should pick a couple of national parks to check out! Man, I would love to do that.

The board just did something weird. Sorry about that.

I thought that was just your puckish side coming out. :)

Tom, you got yourself a place to stay in LA, complete with two friendly dogs, one cuddly cat and one, well, much-less-cuddly cat.

When's it gonna be? If you want to do southwest national parks and you get out our way, our house is always open to you. I just ask when, because, you know, I'm not actually in the house at the moment.

My vacation is August 27 through September 18.

I like the idea of a National Park tour. Yosemite is also awesome, although it's hard to get reservations in the summer.

There's always touring the Atlantic coast--you could go to Nova Scotia and work your way down, eating lobster and fried clams all the way...

I need to figure out when I'm going to Boulder, which will be my only vacation this year, I think, and it'll probably just be a long weekend anyway.

I went to Yosemite last year.

But that does make me wonder if your dress code defines "mini."

No. It says skirts of appropriate length, which I've been interpreting as "longer than where my fingertips reach when standing straight."

But I understand that's miniskirt territory. I just thought it was okay for LA. However...financial industry.

I'm being kept out of the loop on something I'm normally in the loop on because my boss wants me 100% on another project. I don't like the feeling. I want my old spot back.

There's always touring the Atlantic coast--you could go to Nova Scotia and work your way down, eating lobster and fried clams all the way...

We did that when I was 16. Actually, we started in Chicago, drove towards Maine along the eastern edge of the Great Lakes, stopped by Niagara Falls and then the White Mountains in New Hampshire, then stayed four days in Bar Harbor, took the ferry to Nova Scotia for two days, then down the Maine coast to Boston before driving home. Ate too much lobster in those two weeks, to the point where I actually decided on fried shrimp for lunch one day because I was sick of lobster. Back then, in 1982, lobster was available at the cheap harbor shacks for only $5 a pound for fresh-caught lobsters. Have no idea what it is now, but it has to be a lot more than $5!