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as promised, some shots from the San Diego zoo and Balboa Park

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finally made it out to San Diego zoo and Balboa Park yesterday with some fellow Clarity colleagues. pretty cool. i like zoos quite a bit and one nice thing about the San Diego zoo is it's pretty big, so the animals have lots of room. a couple of the funnier things were 1) couple of large tortoises (possibly Galapagos) trying to mate or something, albeit terribly slowly and it didn't seem to work out (to which I made the crack "talk about your foreplay" and amused my fellow zoo-goers) and 2) the gorillas playing king of the mountain. anyway, got a couple cool shots that I hope to post, including one of a baby giraffe that really turned out nice. after the zoo we walked around Balboa Park a bit. it's very cool. i want to go back another day and visit some of the many museums. i think there are 10-15 total, so lots to choose from. then had some very good tapas for dinner. pretty fun day.

"The Amish are so industrious, not like those shiftless Mennonites." that's awesome.

I bought this Fossil watch back in 1994 that I really liked and it worked well for a few years. I replaced the battery and it worked a bit longer and then seemed to wear out as it wouldn't work consistently. I kept meaning to send it back to Fossil as they will repair them pretty much forever or at least try to. So I finally took it in to the Fossil shop and had them send it in for repair a month ago or so. When I got back into town this weekend, I had a form that basically said the watch was too old to repair and they no longer had parts for it, but hey, you can have any new watch we carry in the $50-60 range if you send this form back in with your preferences. That's some pretty sweet customer service, considering how long ago I bought the original watch. Makes me feel justified in buying another Fossil watch a few months back. Some companies still get it right.