A few good ideas

So qbear and I were driving downtown this morning when Jack mentioned that newer automobile GPS systems could tell you which lane to be in, not just what road to travel.

"So the next time we're shopping for a Nuvi, let's get that," I said. "Plus one that has different dialects and languages, so we could have an Australian man if we wanted -- "

"Or whalesong!" Jack said excitedly. "It could give us directions in whalesong! Although we'd probably always wind up by the ocean, or find ourselves at the Monterey Aquarium."

We pondered this for a few blocks, when Jack mentioned that he wouldn't mind having "white trash chicken parm" tonight, a dish we've made before with frozen chicken patties from Costco.

The topic changed to drag names -- our current favorite is Eureka Patchouli -- and then Jack, speaking of names, went on to mention that if he had an uncle named Chick, who married a woman named Patty, he could say that "Chick and Patty are coming over tonight."

"How about a friend named Sam?" I asked. "If he married a woman named Ella, you could have Chick and Patty, then Sam and Ella."